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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volume 47, 2015

Dissipation in Turbulent Flows

Abstract

This article reviews evidence concerning the cornerstone dissipation scaling of turbulence theory: , with =const., ϵ the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy , and an integral length scale characterizing the energy-containing turbulent eddies. This scaling is intimately linked to the Richardson-Kolmogorov equilibrium cascade. Accumulating evidence shows that a significant nonequilibrium region exists in various turbulent flows in which the energy spectrum has Kolmogorov's −5/3 wave-number scaling over a wide wave-number range, yet ∼/, with ≈1≈, a global/inlet Reynolds number, and a local turbulence Reynolds number.

Keyword(s): nonequilibrium turbulence, Richardson-Kolmogorov cascade, turbulence dissipation scalings
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Dissipation in Turbulent Flows
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