Passive scalar intermittency in low temperature helium flows

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作者
Moisy, F
Willaime, H
Andersen, JS
Tabeling, P
机构
[1] Niels Bohr Inst, Ctr Chaos & Turbulence Studies, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
[2] Ecole Normale Super, Phys Stat Lab, F-75231 Paris, France
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4827
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We report new measurements of mixing of passive temperature field in a turbulent Row. The use of low temperature helium gas allows us to span a range of microscale Reynolds number, R-lambda, from 100 to 650. The exponents xi (n) of the temperature structure functions < \ theta (x + r) - theta (x)\ (n)> similar to r(xin) are shown to saturate to xi (x) similar or equal to 1.45 +/- 0.1 for the highest orders, n similar to 10. This saturation is a signature of statistics dominated by frontlike structures, the cliffs. Statistics of the cliffs' characteristics are performed, particularly their widths are shown to scale as the Kolmogorov length scale.
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页码:4827 / 4830
页数:4
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