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It has been proposed that the thermal component of the fluctuations can be treated as a perturbation about a variable-mean-density incompressible flow. In this way, terms linear in thermal variables, which can give rise to compressibility, are easily identified. The numerical decomposition procedure was extended to decompose the nonacoustic component of the flow into the incompressible and thermal parts, so that thermal terms can be evaluated directly and compared with leading-order incompressible terms to verify their importance. For the turbulence model development, it has been assumed that the leading-order incompressible problem is known, and a way of reducing the modeling of important thermal terms to this known problem was provided. By this approach, extended incompressible models for the turbulent kinetic energy equation and the Reynolds stress transport equation were derived. 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