Renormalization-Group Analysis of Turbulence
- 6 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (14) , 1722-1724
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.1722
Abstract
Using renormalization-group methods and the postulated equivalence between the inertial-range structures of turbulent flows satisfying initial and boundary conditions and of flows driven by a random force, we evaluate the Kolmogorov constant (1.617) and Batchelor constant (1.161), skewness factor (0.4878), power-law exponent (1.3307) for the decay of homogeneous turbulence, turbulent Prandtl number (0.7179), and von Kármán constant (0.372). This renormalization-group technique has also been used to derive turbulent transport models.Keywords
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