MOLECULAR MIXING LENGTHS FOR TURBULENT WAKES

Abstract

A simplified analysis is performed of the turbulent mixing of a trace chemical species with the bulk chemical species. The general relationship between the mixing on a molecular scale and the concentration fluctuation intensity of the trace species is given. This is then applied to a turbulent wake, to determine the axial length that it takes for ingested gas to become mixed. The results are sensitive to the assumed turbulent dissipation rate; giving values of the mixing length from the order of the wake radius to two orders of magnitude larger.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0669138

Entities

People

  • George W. Sutton

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Governments
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Massachusetts
  • Mixing
  • Molecular Electronics
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Quantum Chemistry