Scaling of conditional lagrangian time correlation functions of velocity and pressure gradient magnitudes in isotropic turbulence

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 457-472

  Yu, Huidan ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Isotropic turbulence; Lagrangian statistics; Refined Kolomogorov similarity hypothesis; Turbulence database

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CORRECTION FACTORS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELEMENT CORRELATIONS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; INTERMITTENCY; INTERMITTENCY EFFECTS; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; KOLMOGOROV; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN STATISTICS; REFINED KOLOMOGOROV SIMILARITY HYPOTHESIS; SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TURNOVER TIME; VISCOUS RANGE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REFINING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TENSORS; TIME MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 78649417399     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-010-9256-5     Document Type: Article

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