Estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate for a stratified flow in a wind tunnel

Franciano Scremin Puhales, Giuliano Demarco, Luis Gustavo Nogueira Martins, Otávio Costa Acevedo, Gervásio Annes Degrazia, Guilherme Sausen Welter, Felipe Denardin Costa, Gilberto Fernando Fisch and Ana Cristina Avelar

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 431, issue C, 175-187

Abstract: In this work a method to estimate turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate (TKEDR) was presented. The technique uses the second-order structure function and Kolmogorov’s law for inertial subrange. This methodology was applied on both neutral and stable stratification wind tunnel data, where the frozen turbulence hypothesis was assumed. The experiments were made with Reynolds Number ranging from 103 up to 104. The results show difference between the neutral and stable cases, but this gap decreases with the mean wind speed. Furthermore, TKEDR evaluated was used to describe the inertial subrange in the longitudinal velocity spectrum with a good agreement with the experimental data.

Keywords: Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate; Turbulence; Stable boundary layer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.03.008

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