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The determination of the rate of dissipation in turbulent pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

C. J. Lawn
C. J. Lawn
Affiliation:
Central Electricity Generating Board, Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
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Abstract

Measurements of turbulence energy diffusion and the spectral distributions of stress components in the core of turbulent pipe flow are presented. The results tend to confirm the proposal of Bradshaw (1967a, b) that an inertial subrange in the spectra can exist at quite modest laboratory Reynolds numbers. They also illuminate the inconsistencies in Laufer's (1954) measurements of dissipation and suggest that the fitting of a −5/3 power law to the spectra may well provide the most accurate method of determining dissipation for Re [gsim ] 105.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , 16 August 1971 , pp. 477 - 505
Copyright
© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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