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1. A SMATTERING OF TURBULENCE
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
1. A SMATTERING OF TURBULENCE
"You've said Turbulence ..."
DCommon Language
3 Somebody character or fault associated with agitation, noise,
disturbance.
3 More generally (phenomenon, event...) Turbulence -> Fluctuation ->
disorder -> chaotic evolution ->
unsteadiness, unpredictability ...
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
DFluid mechanics
Common phenomenon, very easy to observe in nature :
gusts of wind, swirls in a torrent...
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
DArtistic detour
3 Arthur Rimbaud : "Je sais les cieux crevants en clairs, et les trombes
et les ressacs et les courants ;" (Bateau ivre)
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
Grid Turbulence -> near the grid and far field : chaotic, spatial homogeneity
Boundary layer -> internal and both internal/external seeding : interface intermittency
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
Wake -> fine grain random agitation and large scale organization
Wake -> large scale organization at very high Reynolds number (geo-physical flows)
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
Is turbulence a collection
of fluid flows or an identified
phenomenon ?
Can one speak of a physics
of turbulence ?
Kinetic energy
: of turbulent agitation:
K UIUI %f Df
%
Normalization:
r h
d e
h
Wave-number: f r c c f r
R
U r g
Reynolds number: 2Eg
h
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
Increase in dissipation
Fluid lines stretching
Mixing enhancement
Intensification of wall transfer
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Variable Density Turbulent Flows - I.S.S. Barcelone 2003 Chapter 1
Increase in dissipation
Mixing enhancement
Intensification of mole-
cular diffusion by exten-
sion of the geometry of
the exchange surface
(steep gradients areas)
Intensification of wall transfer
Steepening of
mean gradients
at the wall, as an
induced conse-
quence of diffu-
sion by turbulent
agitation far
from the wall.
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