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Are Scalings of Turbulence Universal?

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Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers

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A physical theory of the scalings of turbulence must invoke physical parameters which can either be directly measured, or be estimated by plausible physical argument. Based on the recently proposed Hierarchical Structure model (She & Leveque, Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, 211), we argue that the scaling laws in developed turbulent flows are not universal. They depend on the properties of the most intermittent structures which represent a driven mechanism of the energy cascade.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Zhen-Su She

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA

    Russell J. Donnelly

  2. Department of Enginnering and Applied Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

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She, ZS. (1998). Are Scalings of Turbulence Universal?. In: Donnelly, R.J., Sreenivasan, K.R. (eds) Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2230-9_29

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