EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY OF THE KOLMOGOROV REFINED SIMILARITY VARIABLE

被引:10
作者
HOSOKAWA, I
VANATTA, CW
THORODDSEN, ST
机构
[1] University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo
[2] Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, 0411 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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11;
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10.1016/0169-5983(94)90013-2
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O3 [力学];
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08 ; 0801 ;
摘要
Recently Thoroddsen and Van Atta (1992, Phys. Fluids A4, 2592) showed that Kolmogorov's refined similarity hypothesis (1962, J. Fluid Mech. 13, 77; 82) is supported by experimental data from a wind-tunnel study of a cylinder wake, at Re(lambda) of 550. We show here that the probability density of the Kolmogorov similarity variable approaches a Gaussian distribution. The data also suggest that it may obey an even more demanding conditional similarity, which leads to important conclusions regarding the scaling exponents.
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