Universal scaling laws in fully developed turbulence
- 17 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (3) , 336-339
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.336
Abstract
The inertial-range scaling laws of fully developed turbulence are described in terms of scalings of a sequence of moment ratios of the energy dissipation field coarse-grained at inertial-range scale l. These moment ratios =〈〉/〈〉(p=0, 1, 2,...,) form a hierarchy of structures. The most singular structures are assumed to be filaments, and it is argued that ∼. Furthermore, a universal relation between scalings of successive structures is postulated, which leads to a prediction of the entire set of the scaling exponents: 〈〉∼, =-2/3p+2[1-( 2) / 3 ] and 〈δ〉∼, =p/9+2[1-(2/3].
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