Velocity and temperature derivatives in high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows in the atmospheric surface layer. Part 2. Accelerations and related matters

G. Gulitski*, M. Kholmyansky, W. Kinzelbach, B. Lüthi, A. Tsinober, S. Yorish

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Abstract

We report the first results of an experiment, in which explicit information on all velocity derivatives (the nine spatial derivatives, ∂ui∂xj, and the three temporal derivatives, ∂ui/∂t) along with the three components of velocity fluctuations at a Reynolds number as high as Reλ ∼104 is obtained. No use of the Taylor hypothesis was made, and this allowed us to obtain a variety of results concerning acceleration and its different Eulerian components along with vorticity, strain and other small-scale quantities. The field experiments were performed at five heights between 0.8 and 10m above the ground. The report consists of three parts. Part 1 is devoted to the description of facilities, methods and some general results. Part 2 concerns accelerations and related matters. Part 3 is devoted to the issues concerning temperature with the emphasis on joint statistics of temperature and velocity derivatives.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-102
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume589
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Oct 2007

Funding

FundersFunder number
United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2002264
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities34/02
Israel Science Foundation

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