Narasimha, R (1989) Turbulence at the CrossRoads : The Utility and13; Drawbacks of Traditional Approaches. Technical Report. National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, India.
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Abstract
This survey argues that traditional approaches to turbulence have led to some notable but incomplete successes, such as the establishment of a plausible connection between diffusion and correlation, and the similarity and matchability arguments of Millikan and Kolmogorov . Experience with shear flows may be summarised in the form of some basic working rules,although their validity cannot be considered beyond doubt . On the other13; hand, traditional approaches seem to ignore the wide prevalence of exponential distributions (rather than Gaussians), and have not led to any rational models for turbulent flow yet . For many decades now the scientific initiative has remained with experiment, and extensive work on coherent structures in a variety of flows has suggested novel methods of turbulence management13; and possible new candidates for quot;moleculesquot; of turbulence that may enable progress in theory . While the initiative may now be passing to computers at low Reynolds numbers, a quot;reconciliationquot; between the notions of ordered13; motion and statistical theory is considered likely in the near future, and will probably emerge from greater understanding of the apparently random occurrence of coherent events through a dynamical-systems approach .
| Item Type: | Proj.Doc/Technical Report (Technical Report) |
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| Additional Information: | This is the text of an invited lecture delivered13; at the Workshop on quot;Turbulence at the Cross13; Roads, or Whither Turbulence?quot;, organised by13; the Mathematical Sciences Institute and held13; at Cornell University during 22-24 March 1989 . |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Turbulence;Traditional approaches;Coherent structures;13; Modelling;Chaos;Exponential distributions;Working rules13; 13; |
| Subjects: | ENGINEERING > Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics AERONAUTICS > Aerodynamics |
| Division/Department: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Deputy Head Poornima Narayana |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2010 09:45 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/1969 |
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