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Dissipation in unsteady turbulence

Fluid Dynamics 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

Recent experiments and simulations have shown that unsteady turbulent flows, before reaching a dynamic equilibrium state, display a universal behaviour. We show that the observed universal non-equilibrium scaling can be explained using a non-equilibrium correction of Kolmogorov's energy spectrum. Given the universality of the experimental and numerical observations, the ideas presented here lay the foundation for the modeling of a wide class of unsteady turbulent flows.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04054,
  title  = {Dissipation in unsteady turbulence},
  author = {Wouter Bos and Robert Rubinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04054},
  year   = {2017}
}
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