Friction factor for turbulent flow in rough pipes from Heisenberg's closure hypothesis
Fluid Dynamics
2013-05-29 v2 Other Condensed Matter
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
We show that the main results of the analysis of the friction factor for turbulent pipe flow reported in G. Gioia and P. Chakraborty (GC), Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (1996) can be recovered by assuming the Heisenberg closure hypothesis for the turbulent spectrum. This highlights the structural features of the turbulent spectrum underlying GC's analysis.
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@article{arxiv.0901.0255,
title = {Friction factor for turbulent flow in rough pipes from Heisenberg's closure hypothesis},
author = {Esteban Calzetta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0255},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
19 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E