It is experimentally shown that the nonclassical high Reynolds number energy dissipation behavior, $C_{\epsilon }\equiv \epsilon L/u^3=f({\mathrm{Re}}_M)/{\mathrm{Re}}_L$, observed during the decay of fractal square grid-generated turbulence (where ${\mathrm{Re}}_M$ is a global inlet Reynolds number and ${\mathrm{Re}}_L$ is a local turbulence Reynolds number) is also manifested in decaying turbulence originating from various regular grids. For sufficiently high values of the global Reynolds numbers ${\mathrm{Re}}_M$, $f({\mathrm{Re}}_M)\sim {\mathrm{Re}}_M$.

• Received 21 December 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.214503