TY - JOUR
T1 - Refined similarity hypothesis using three-dimensional local averages
AU - Iyer, Kartik P.
AU - Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.
AU - Yeung, P. K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/12/28
Y1 - 2015/12/28
N2 - The refined similarity hypotheses of Kolmogorov, regarded as an important ingredient of intermittent turbulence, has been tested in the past using one-dimensional data and plausible surrogates of energy dissipation. We employ data from direct numerical simulations, at the microscale Reynolds number Rλ∼650, on a periodic box of 40963 grid points to test the hypotheses using three-dimensional averages. In particular, we study the small-scale properties of the stochastic variable V=Δu(r)/(rεr)1/3, where Δu(r) is the longitudinal velocity increment and εr is the dissipation rate averaged over a three-dimensional volume of linear size r. We show that V is universal in the inertial subrange. In the dissipation range, the statistics of V are shown to depend solely on a local Reynolds number.
AB - The refined similarity hypotheses of Kolmogorov, regarded as an important ingredient of intermittent turbulence, has been tested in the past using one-dimensional data and plausible surrogates of energy dissipation. We employ data from direct numerical simulations, at the microscale Reynolds number Rλ∼650, on a periodic box of 40963 grid points to test the hypotheses using three-dimensional averages. In particular, we study the small-scale properties of the stochastic variable V=Δu(r)/(rεr)1/3, where Δu(r) is the longitudinal velocity increment and εr is the dissipation rate averaged over a three-dimensional volume of linear size r. We show that V is universal in the inertial subrange. In the dissipation range, the statistics of V are shown to depend solely on a local Reynolds number.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063024
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954514681
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 6
M1 - 063024
ER -