A case of strong non linearity: intermittency in highly turbulent flows
arXiv:1806.04893 · doi:10.1016/j.crme.2019.03.002
Abstract
It has long been suspected that flows of incompressible fluids at large or infinite Reynolds number (namely at small or zero viscosity) may present finite time singularities. We review briefly the theoretical situation on this point. We discuss the effect of a small viscosity on the self-similar solution of the Euler equations for inviscid fluids. Then we show that single point records of velocity fluctuations in the Modane wind tunnel display correlations between large velocities and large accelerations in full agreement with scaling laws derived from Leray's equations (1934) for self-similar singular solutions of the fluid equations. Conversely those experimental velocity-acceleration correlations are contradictory to the Kolmogorov scaling laws.
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