Correspondence principle for turbulence: Application to the Chicago experiments on high Rayleigh number Bénard convection
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics
- Vol. 1 (2) , 175-178
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857484
Abstract
The correspondence principle postulated for the description of hydrodynamic turbulence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 5 7, 1722 (1986)] combined with the theory of thermal boundary layer [B. Castaing et al. (private communication)] is applied to high Rayleigh number convection in a Bénard cell. Quantitative interpretation of recent experimental data [B. Castaing et al. (private communication)] is presented. The predicted intermittency exponent following from comparison of the theory with experiment is 0.175<μ<0.275. A crucial experimental test of the renormalization group theory of turbulence is proposed.Keywords
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