Fully Developed Turbulent Flows

Abstract

An analytic theory for the large (passive) scalar derivative skewness for turbulent transport in a mean scalar gradient has been devised using Lie Algebraic methods to solve the Hopf equation. This Reynolds independent skewness strongly contradicts Kolmogorov's theory occurs in shear flows, which are being studied numerically, emphasizing the analogies between scalar and momentum transport.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1994
Accession Number
ADA286496

Entities

People

  • Eric D. Siggia

Organizations

  • Cornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Integrals
  • Layers
  • Momentum
  • Path Integrals
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Shear Flow
  • Simulations
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)