Energy Transfer in Isotropic Turbulence

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Energy transfer from large to small eddies at three stations in turbulence behind a square mesh is determined by measuring the rates of change and viscous dissipation of the spectrum and the results are compared with a theoretical prediction. Large eddies for which viscous dissipation is negligible satisfy a similarity relation which agrees with the fact that the total energy decays as some negative power of time. Small eddies which are in approximate statistical equilibrium satisfy local similarity according to Kolmogoroff. Various terms in the vorticity equation are also determined and the quantities representative of small scale motion are universal constants when expressed in terms of Kolmogoroff parameters

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