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On the universality of anomalous scaling exponents of structure functions in turbulent flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2018

E.-W. Saw Open the ORCID record for E.-W. Saw [Opens in a new window] ,
P. Debue ,
D. Kuzzay ,
F. Daviaud  and
B. Dubrulle
E.-W. Saw
Affiliation:
SPEC/IRAMIS/DSM, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
P. Debue
Affiliation:
SPEC/IRAMIS/DSM, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
D. Kuzzay
Affiliation:
SPEC/IRAMIS/DSM, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
F. Daviaud
Affiliation:
SPEC/IRAMIS/DSM, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
B. Dubrulle*
Affiliation:
SPEC/IRAMIS/DSM, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
*
†Email address for correspondence: berengere.dubrulle@cea.fr
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Abstract

All previous experiments in open turbulent flows (e.g. downstream of grids, jets and the atmospheric boundary layer) have produced quantitatively consistent values for the scaling exponents of velocity structure functions (Anselmet et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 140, 1984, pp. 63–89; Stolovitzky et al., Phys. Rev. E, vol. 48 (5), 1993, R3217; Arneodo et al., Europhys. Lett., vol. 34 (6), 1996, p. 411). The only measurement of scaling exponents at high order (${>}6$) in closed turbulent flow (von Kármán swirling flow) using Taylor’s frozen flow hypothesis, however, produced scaling exponents that are significantly smaller, suggesting that the universality of these exponents is broken with respect to change of large scale geometry of the flow. Here, we report measurements of longitudinal structure functions of velocity in a von Kármán set-up without the use of the Taylor hypothesis. The measurements are made using stereo particle image velocimetry at four different ranges of spatial scales, in order to observe a combined inertial subrange spanning approximately one and a half orders of magnitude. We found scaling exponents (up to ninth order) that are consistent with values from open turbulent flows, suggesting that they might be in fact universal.

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Turbulent Flows: Intermittency Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory Turbulent Flows: Turbulent Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 837 , 25 February 2018 , pp. 657 - 669
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© 2018 Cambridge University Press 

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