New perspectives in turbulence
Author:
Alexandre J. Chorin
Journal:
Quart. Appl. Math. 56 (1998), 767-785
MSC:
Primary 76F02; Secondary 76M55
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1668737
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MR1668737
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Abstract: An analysis of the mean velocity profile in the intermediate region of wall-bounded turbulence shows that the well-known von Kármán-Prandtl logarithmic law of the wall must be jettisoned in favor of a power law. An analogous analysis of the local structure of turbulence shows that the Kolmogorov-Obukhov scaling of the second and third structure functions is exact in the limit of vanishing viscosity while, in the same limit, higher-order moments fail to exist. These results rely on advanced similarity methods and on vanishing-viscosity asymptotics, and are consistent with a near-equilibrium theory of turbulence of which a new version is presented.
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A. M. Obukhov, Spectral energy distribution in turbulent flow, Dokl. Akad. Nauk USSR 1, 22–24 (1941)
L. Prandtl, Zur turbulenten Stroemung in Rohren und laengs Platten, Ergeb. Aerodyn. Versuch., Series 4, Goettingen, 1932
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H. Schlichting, Boundary Layer Theory, McGraw-Hill, NY, second edition, 1968
K. R. Sreenivasan, On the universality of the Kolmogorov constant, Phys. Fluids A 7, 2778–2784 (1995)
H. Tennekes and J. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990
H. Weber and P. Minnhagen, Monte-Carlo determination of the critical temperature for the two-dimensional XY model, Phys. Rev. B 37, 5986–5989 (1988)
M. V. Zagarola, A. J. Smits, S. A. Orszag, and V. Yakhot, Experiments in high Reynolds number turbulent pipe flow, AIAA paper 96-0654, Reno, Nevada, 1996
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