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Study of Lagrangian Characteristic times Using Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence

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Turbulent Shear Flows 6

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Direct numerical simulations and large eddy simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence are used to compute Lagrangian statistics of turbulence and, in particular, its time scales. The computed time scales are compared with the spectral time scales that are frequently used in Eddy Damped Quasi-Normal Markovian calculations of the spectrum. The time scale models are rather good at high wavenumber and the results point to directions for improvement of the time scales at low wavenumber.

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  1. Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique, Ecole Central de Lyon, 36 av. Guy de Collongue, 69130, Ecully, France

    C. H. Lee & J. P. Bertoglio

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    K. Squires & J. Ferziger

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  1. Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, 42, Avenue Coriolis, 31057, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Jean-Claude André

  2. O.N.E.R.A./C.E.R.T., 2, Avenue Edouard Belin, 31055, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Jean Cousteix

  3. Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstraße 13, 8520, Erlangen, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Franz Durst

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, England

    Brian E. Launder

  5. Mechanical Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Frank W. Schmidt

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BX, England

    James H. Whitelaw

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Lee, C.H., Squires, K., Bertoglio, J.P., Ferziger, J. (1989). Study of Lagrangian Characteristic times Using Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence. In: André, JC., Cousteix, J., Durst, F., Launder, B.E., Schmidt, F.W., Whitelaw, J.H. (eds) Turbulent Shear Flows 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73948-4_6

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