COMMENT ON THE DISSIPATION-RANGE SPECTRUM IN TURBULENT FLOWS

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SANADA, T
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[1] Institute of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS A-FLUID DYNAMICS | 1992年 / 4卷 / 05期
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10.1063/1.858263
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O3 [力学];
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08 ; 0801 ;
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Recently, Smith and Reynolds [Phys. Fluids A 3, 992 (1991)] suggested that the turbulent energy spectrum with exponential decaying form E(k) = C(K)epsilon-2/3k-5/3 exp(-sigma-k) (C(K) is Kolmogorov constant, epsilon is the energy dissipation rate, and sigma is some constant) may be a poor model, because it does not give velocity derivative skewness in good agreement with experimental value. On the other hand, some direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equation demonstrate the above exponential form in the dissipation range. This disagreement is resolved by considering a model spectrum based on direct numerical simulation.
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