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Micro Structure and Lagrangian Statistics of the Scalar Field with a Mean Gradient in Isotropic Turbulence

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This paper presents a numerical study of the relation between the small scale velocity and scalar field in fully developed isotropic turbulence, with a forced random large scale motion and an imposed steady and linear mean scalar gradient. Simulations have been performed with a range of Reynolds numbers from Re λ1 = 22 to 130 and Schmidt numbers from Sc = 1/25 to 144.

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  1. Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, Leeghwaterstraat 21, 2628 CA, Delft, The Netherlands

    G. Brethouwer, J. C. R. Hunt & F. T. M. Nieuwstadt

  2. Department of Geological Sciences and of Space & Climate Physics, University College London, 17 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH, UK

    J. C. R. Hunt

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  1. G. Brethouwer
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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    A. Pollard

  2. Ecole Centrale Paris, EM2C, CNRS, Paris, France

    S. Candel

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Brethouwer, G., Hunt, J.C.R., Nieuwstadt, F.T.M. (2002). Micro Structure and Lagrangian Statistics of the Scalar Field with a Mean Gradient in Isotropic Turbulence. In: Pollard, A., Candel, S. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Turbulent Mixing and Combustion. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1998-8_3

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