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Title: Structure and modeling of turbulence

Conference ·
OSTI ID:177288
 [1]
  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)

The {open_quotes}vortex strings{close_quotes} scale l{sub s} {approximately} LRe{sup -3/10} (L-external scale, Re - Reynolds number) is suggested as a grid scale for the large-eddy simulation. Various aspects of the structure of turbulence and subgrid modeling are described in terms of conditional averaging, Markov processes with dependent increments and infinitely divisible distributions. The major request from the energy, naval, aerospace and environmental engineering communities to the theory of turbulence is to reduce the enormous number of degrees of freedom in turbulent flows to a level manageable by computer simulations. The vast majority of these degrees of freedom is in the small-scale motion. The study of the structure of turbulence provides a basis for subgrid-scale (SGS) models, which are necessary for the large-eddy simulations (LES).

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
OSTI ID:
177288
Report Number(s):
CONF-9505200-; ON: DE96000983; TRN: 96:003528
Resource Relation:
Conference: 13. symposium on energy engineering sciences, Argonne, IL (United States), 15-17 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]; Related Information: Is Part Of Thirteenth symposium on energy engineering sciences: Proceedings. Fluid/thermal processes, systems analysis and control; PB: 275 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English