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Summary-Introduction: Similarity arguments for fully developed turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2018

W. V. R. Malkus*
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Woods Hole, Mass.

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In the study of turbulent flows similarity arguments are used to explore the consequences of non-mechanistic assertions concerning the general behavior of the flow. For example, it is currently assumed that viscosity plays no role in the determination of the mean velocity profile of turbulent shearing flow far from a boundary. The consequences of this assumption are that the amplitude of the mean velocity will be determined by the momentum transported into such a region and that the velocity profile will be a solution to Euler's equations.

Type
Part IV. Considerations on Localized Velocity Fields in Stellar Atmospheres: Prototype — The Solar Atmosphere
Copyright
Copyright © Italian physical society 1960 

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