Simple Model for the Small-Scale Structure of Turbulence
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 11 (3), 669-671
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1691966
Abstract
The small‐scale structure of turbulence may be modeled as vortex tubes of diameter η, which are stretched by eddies of scale λ. The skewness and kurtosis of ∂u/∂x ‐type signals are calculated.Keywords
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