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So far we have mainly dealt with the so-called single-point statistical moments of the turbulent flow. These are statistical quantities, such as the average or the variance, defined at a single point in space (see Chap. 5). However, these single-point moments do not describe the spatial and temporal structure of turbulence. For this we need multiple-point moments that describe the relation between the various variables in space and time.
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Please note that \(\lambda _T\) has the dimension of time and is the Taylor microscale for temporal fluctuations.
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Nieuwstadt, F.T.M., Boersma, B.J., Westerweel, J. (2016). Correlation Function and Spectrum. In: Turbulence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31599-7_9
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