Decay of Isotropic Turbulence Generated by a Mechanically Agitated Grid

AIP Publishing - Tập 15 Số 8 - Trang 1363-1369 - 1972
S. C. Ling1, Chaoyi Wan1
1Department of Aerospace and Atmospheric Sciences, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. 20017

Tóm tắt

Experimental study of weak isotropic turbulence, created by a mechanically agitated grid, has indicated that in the absence of large linear-momentum wakes the energy of turbulence relaxes very quickly into a stable self-preserving structure, which, depending on the initial Reynolds number of turbulence, decays at different constant inverse powers of time. Both the longitudinal correlation coefficients and the corresponding spectral distributions, except for the difference in the parametric constants, are of the same functional type as those found previously for a passive grid.

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1970, Phys. Fluids, 13, 2912, 10.1063/1.1692882

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