Decay of scalar variance in terms of a modified Richardson law for pair dispersion
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 24 (9) , 1754-1756
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863597
Abstract
A simple extension of recent work by Larcheveque and Lesieur leads to a one parameter analytic expression for the decay of scalar variance in an isotropic homogeneous turbulent flow. The essential qualitative features of the Warhaft–Lumley experiment are reproduced.Keywords
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