The random sweeping decorrelation hypothesis in stratified turbulent flows
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Kraichnan's random sweeping hypothesis in homogeneous turbulent convection.
We report an experimental study of the temperature space-time cross-correlation function, C{T}(r,τ), in the central region of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection. The measured C{T}(r,τ) is found to have the scaling form C{T}(r{E},0), where r{E}=[r² +(Vτ)²]¹/² with V being the rms velocity at the center of the convection cell. The experiment confirms the theory by He et al. [Phys. Rev. E 73, 05...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Multiphase Flow
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0301-9322
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9322(97)88273-0