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The return to isotropy of an homogeneous turbulence having been submitted to two successive plane strains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

J. N. Gence  and
J. Mathieu
J. N. Gence
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, Ecole Centrale de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
J. Mathieu
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, Ecole Centrale de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
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Abstract

The authors consider an homogeneous non-isotropic turbulence which develops without mean velocity gradient so that it should return to isotropy. This turbulence has been obtained by application of two successive plane strains to a grid-generated turbulence, and this configuration has already been described in a preceding paper. It is shown in particular that the nonlinear effects make no significant contribution to the rotation of the principal axes of the Reynolds stress tensor. In the case of the return to isotropy, an important parameter connected with the turbulent energy distribution between three directions comes into play. In the present experiment it has a positive sign whereas in previous experiments this sign was negative. In particular, the authors conclude that, when this parameter is positive, the return to isotropy is slower than in the opposite case.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 101 , Issue 3 , 11 December 1980 , pp. 555 - 566
Copyright
© 1980 Cambridge University Press

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