SPACE-TIME CORRELATIONS OF VELOCITY AND PRESSURE AND THE ROLE OF CONVECTION FOR HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE IN THE UNIVERSAL RANGE

Abstract

Kolmogorov's principles provide a basis for the treatment of Eulerian space-time correlations for turbulence in the universal range by explicit separation of the kinematic effect of convection by the large eddies. With reference to unsheared homogeneous turbulence, the usual similarity forms are assumed for intrinsic velocity correlations in a local co-moving frame. The local-convection approximation, neglecting dispersion in this frame and hence relating space-time correlations to pure spatial correlations, is indicated to be a useful one in the inertial and viscous subranges. For an isotropic normal velocity distribution, the structure functions of fluctuating velocity are computed and found to be nearly space-time isotropic in the former subrange and exactly so in the latter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0655841

Entities

People

  • David M. Chase

Organizations

  • Control Data Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Frequency
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Normal Distribution
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Probability
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shear Flow
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Control Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space