TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS IN TURBULENT CONVECTION AT LOW PRANDTL NUMBER

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作者
CIONI, S
CILIBERTO, S
SOMMERIA, J
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[1] Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique CNRS, Lyon Cedex 07, 69364, URA1325 - 46, Allée d’Italie
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1995年 / 32卷 / 05期
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10.1209/0295-5075/32/5/006
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The scaling properties of the temperature structure functions are experimentally investigated in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection at low Prandtl number. It is found that the temperature has the same scaling exponents of a passive scalar in 3D homogeneous isotropic turbulence. These exponents are obtained from the property of extended self-similarity, extending the scaling laws to the case of moderate Reynolds numbers.
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