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We analyze a possible extension of Gioia and Chakraborty's momentum transfer model of friction in steady turbulent pipe flows (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (2006)) to the case of time and/or space dependent turbulent flows. The end result is…
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We revisit the molecular arguments underpinning the Eulerian model for compressible and diffusive flows, and conclude that a heat diffusive term appears to be missing in the original model. By studying a pure heat transfer problem, we…
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A generalised quasilinear (GQL) approximation (Marston \emph{et al.}, \emph{Phys. Rev. Lett.}, vol. 116, 104502, 2016) is applied to turbulent channel flow at $Re_\tau \simeq 1700$ ($Re_\tau$ is the friction Reynolds number), with emphasis…