https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Similarity of intermittency characteristics of temperature and transverse velocity https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:3458 n, the intermittency exponents µα based on individual and mixed sixth-order structure functions, the scaling exponents ζα(n) of the locally averaged energy and temperature dissipation rates approximated by (δα/δx)2, the flatness factors of the derivatives δα/δx, and the probability density functions (PDFs) of δα/δx, the increment δα and (δα/δx)2. It is found that v and θ are similar in terms of their intermittency characteristics. They are more intermittent than u. The scaling exponent ζv(n) is marginally larger than ζθ(n). The intermittency exponent µθ is smaller than µv based on the estimate of mixed sixth-order structure functions, while µθ is nearly equal to µv based on the estimate of individual sixth-order structure functions. The temperature dissipation rate is more intermittent than the turbulent energy dissipation rate, as indicated by τα(n). The flatness factor of δθ/δx is marginally larger than that of δv/δx. The PDFs of δθ/δx, deltaθ, and (δθ/δx)2 show the strongest departure from the Gaussian distribution.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 15:53:37 AEST ]]> Spectrum of a passive scalar in stretched grid turbulence at low Reynolds numbers https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17051 θ) is represented by a power-law function of Reynolds number, and it approaches 5/3 faster than that for the velocity spectrum (mu). Results show that the ratio between the velocity and temperature scaling range exponents, (5/3+mu)/mθ, is about 1.98.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 15:29:00 AEST ]]>