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Velocity and temperature derivatives in high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows in the atmospheric surface layer. Part 2. Accelerations and related matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2007

G. GULITSKI ,
M. KHOLMYANSKY ,
W. KINZELBACH ,
B. LÜTHI ,
A. TSINOBER  and
S. YORISH
G. GULITSKI
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
M. KHOLMYANSKY
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
W. KINZELBACH
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
B. LÜTHI
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
A. TSINOBER
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
S. YORISH
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Abstract

We report the first results of an experiment, in which explicit information on all velocity derivatives (the nine spatial derivatives, ∂ui∂xj, and the three temporal derivatives, ∂ui/∂t) along with the three components of velocity fluctuations at a Reynolds number as high as Reλ~104 is obtained. No use of the Taylor hypothesis was made, and this allowed us to obtain a variety of results concerning acceleration and its different Eulerian components along with vorticity, strain and other small-scale quantities. The field experiments were performed at five heights between 0.8 and 10m above the ground.

The report consists of three parts. Part 1 is devoted to the description of facilities, methods and some general results. Part 2 concerns accelerations and related matters. Part 3 is devoted to the issues concerning temperature with the emphasis on joint statistics of temperature and velocity derivatives.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 589 , 25 October 2007 , pp. 83 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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