Turbulence in Thick Layers

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  • MICHAEL SHATS
  • HUA XIA
چکیده

Properties of turbulence, such as the direction of the energy cascade depend on the flow dimensionality. Recent experimental results reveal new physics understanding of flows in thick layers. We show that the flow dimensionality can be characterized by the flow damping and that a comparison of the decay rate with that of a quasi-2D flow can be used as a measure of dimensionality of a turbulent flow in a layer. This dimensionality, however can be strongly affected if large scale coherent vortices are present in the flow. These vortices can imposed twodimensionality and reduce the damping rate. Finally we show that even in thick layers with unperturbed free surface, turbulent flow can be viewed as co-existing 2D top sub-layer and the bulk 3D flow.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012