ON THE UNIVERSAL FORM OF ENERGY-SPECTRA IN FULLY-DEVELOPED TURBULENCE

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SHE, ZS [1 ]
JACKSON, E [1 ]
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[1] PRINCETON UNIV, PROGRAM APPL & COMPUTAT MATH, PRINCETON, NJ 08544 USA
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS A-FLUID DYNAMICS | 1993年 / 5卷 / 07期
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10.1063/1.858591
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O3 [力学];
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08 ; 0801 ;
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Several experimentally measured energy spectra of fully developed incompressible turbulent flows with Taylor microscale Reynolds numbers ranging from 130-13000 have been reexamined. It is shown that all spectra collapse to a universal curve after a simple rescaling of space and time. This rescaling does not involve any multifractal-type transformation, and the rescaled wave numbers scatter around the Kolmogorov dissipation wave numbers derived from experimentally measured quantities. An empirical formula for the resulting universal form is proposed, indicating a nontrivial form of the energy spectrum near the viscous dissipation cutoff.
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