Theory of turbulent shear flow

Jürgen Piest

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1989, vol. 157, issue 2, 688-704

Abstract: This is the first of a series of three papers which report on an theoretical turbulence investigation. In the present part, the Reynolds equation for the mean velocity field in turbulent shear flow is derived in a systematic way starting from established physical knowledge. A basic problem of contemporary turbulence theory is that, at the hydrodynamic level, there seems to be no way presently to derive systematically the initial probability distribution of the fluctuating momentum density. For this reason, N-particle statistical mechanics is employed in this investigation.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90062-9

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