ISSN:
1434-6036
Keywords:
PACS. 47.27.Gs Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence - 47.27.Jv High-Reynolds-number turbulence
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract: We suggest a new, renormalization group (RG) based, nonperturbative method for treating the intermittency problem of fully developed turbulence which also includes the effects of a finite boundary of the turbulent flow. The key idea is not to try to construct an elimination procedure based on some assumed statistical distribution, but to make an ansatz for possible RG transformations and to pose constraints upon those, which guarantee the invariance of the nonlinear term in the Navier-Stokes equation, the invariance of the energy dissipation, and other basic properties of the velocity field. The role of length scales is taken to be inverse to that in the theory of critical phenomena; thus possible intermittency corrections are connected with the outer length scale. Depending on the specific type of flow, we find different sets of admissible transformations with distinct scaling behaviour: for the often considered infinite, isotropic, and homogeneous system K41 scaling is enforced, but for the more realistic plane Couette geometry no restrictions on intermittency exponents were obtained so far.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s100510050635
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