Large-scale lognormal fluctuations in turbulence velocity fields

Details Large-scale lognormal fluctuations in turbulence velocity fields Large-scale lognormal fluctuations in turbulence velocity fields

2008-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2166v2

PoF, 21, 065107 [2009]

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

9 pages, accepted by Physics of Fluids (see http://pof.aip.org)

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For several flows of laboratory turbulence, we obtain long records of velocity data. These records are divided into numerous segments. In each segment, we calculate the mean rate of energy dissipation, the mean energy at each scale, and the mean total energy. Their values fluctuate significantly among the segments. The fluctuations are lognormal, if the segment length lies within the range of large scales where the velocity correlations are weak but not yet absent. Since the lognormality is observed regardless of the Reynolds number and the configuration for turbulence production, it is expected to be universal. The likely origin is some multiplicative stochastic process related to interactions among scales through the energy transfer.

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