TURBULENCE AND THE DYNAMICS OF COHERENT STRUCTURES .1. COHERENT STRUCTURES
TURBULENCE AND THE DYNAMICS OF COHERENT STRUCTURES .1. COHERENT STRUCTURES
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DOI:
10.1090/qam/910462
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发表时间:
1987-10-01
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0.8
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SIROVICH, L
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作者:
SIROVICH, L
1. Introduction to parts I—III. Two separate developments in recent years have altered the basic statistical framework of turbulence established by Taylor [1], From the laboratory there is abundant information implying the existence of coherent structures and revealing something of their nature [2], On the theoretical side recent applications of dynamical systems theory to turbulence suggest that such flows reside on relatively low-dimensional manifolds or attractors [3]. However, in the first instance, no general framework incorporating coherent structures into turbulence theory has emerged. In the second instance, direct means have not been put forward for the description of these attractors. The present papers present a program for dealing with both of these issues in a unified manner.An essential ingredient of the treatment given here is the basic idea by Lumley [4](see also [5]) that spatial velocity correlations be orthogonally decomposed as a rational and quantitative method of identifying coherent structures. This approach has been applied to boundary layer flow by Bakewell and Lumley [6] and to wake flows by Payne and Lumley [7], More recently it has been applied to jet flows [8] and to the numerical simulation of channel flows [9]. The use of this procedure has been hampered by the lack of complete and sufficiently resolved data. Present day experimental techniques and numerical data have greatly remedied this problem. However, due to the laborious nature of the method it has remained unsuitable for dealing with the large data sets which have become available. As a result reduction to a one-dimensional calculation is usually forced. The methods presented in Pt. I overcome this shortcoming and make fully three-dimensional flows accessible to treatment.