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2010 Tutorial School on Fluid Dynamics: Topics in Turbulence

Refresher Material

James Wallace, University of Maryland
Outline:  

Rate equations

  • mean momentum
  • turbulent kinetic energy
  • Reynolds stress
  • dissipation rate
  • enstrophy
  • scalar concentration
Turbulence scales
  • integral
  • Taylor
  • Kolmogorov
Statistical tools with examples of uses to reveal flow physics in various flows
  • correlation functions
  • spectra
  • probability density functions
  • conditional and phase averaging