Author:
Frenkiel Françlois N.,Klebanoff Philip S.
Abstract
High-speed digital computing methods are applied to the study of the statistical behaviour of turbulent velocity derivatives in a nearly isotropic turbulent field downstream of a grid. Higher-order correlations of turbulent velocity gradients, up to the eighth order, are measured. Contrary to the case of velocities, the higher even-order correlations of velocity gradients more clearly evidence the departure from a two-dimensional Gaussian probability distribution. Using non-Gaussian probability distribution laws the relations between different odd-and even-order correlations are obtained and compared with the experimental measurements. The conditions of similarity and isotropy are evaluated for the small-scale structure as evidenced by the behaviour of the turbulent velocity gradients. The concept of intermittency of the small-scale structure is also discussed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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