Reply to Comment on Extended self-similarity in turbulent flows' ''

Journal Article · Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1995 · Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.51.2672· OSTI ID:6405556

Benzi, R; Ciliberto, S; Tripiccione, R; Baudet, C; Massaioli, F; Succi, S ^[1]

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1. Dipartamento di Fisica, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata,'' via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma (Italy) Laboratoire de Physique, URA, Ecole Normale Superieur, Lyon 69364 (France) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Santo Piero Grado, Pisa (Italy) CASPUR, Universita di Roma La Sapienza,'' Roma (Italy) IBM ECSEC, Roma (Italy)

In this Reply we question the conclusion of van de Water and Herweijer (WH) [preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. E 51, 2669 (1995)] about the evidence of multiscaling behavior in the dissipation range of turbulence. We perform the same analysis suggested by WH for the data set used by Benzi [ital et] [ital al]. [Phys. Rev. E 48, 29, (1993)] to establish extended self-similarity. At variance with WH, we do not observe any evidence of multiscaling. We argue that data filtering in WH could produce a misleading effect at very small scales. The combined effect of multiscaling and extended self-similarity is an important question that needs to be investigated in more detail, both theoretically and experimentally.

• OSTI ID: 6405556
• Journal Information: Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics; (United States), Vol. 51:3; ISSN 1063-651X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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