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  • 8 - Transition to turbulence

  • from Part 1 - Fundamentals
  • Ye Zhou, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California
  • Book:
    Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Turbulence
    Published online:
    27 June 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2024, pp 149-158

  • Summary

    It is critical to evaluate whether the flow has transitioned into turbulence because most of the impact of large-scale mixing occurs when the flow becomes fully developed turbulence. Hydrodynamic instability flows are even more complex because of their time-dependent nature; therefore, both spatial and temporal criteria will be introduced in great detail to demonstrate the necessary and sufficient conditions for the flow to transition to turbulence. These criteria will be extremely helpful for designing experiments and numeric simulations with the goal to study large-scale turbulence mixing. One spatial criterion is that the Reynolds number must achieve a critical minimum value of 160,000. In addition, the temporal criteria suggest that flows need to be given approximately four eddy-turnover-times. This chapter will expand on these issues.