Abstract
We present a more complete analysis of measurement data of
fully developed, locally isotropic turbulence by means of
the estimation of Kramers-Moyal coefficients, which provide
access to the joint probabiltiy density function of
increments for n-scales 1. In this contribution
we report on new findings based on this technique and based
on the investigation of many different flow data over a
large range of Re numbers.\\
In particular, our contribution includes the following
aspects:
1. A method to reconstruct from given data the
underlying stochastic process in form of a Fokker-Planck
equation, which includes intermittency effects, will be
presented.
2. It is shown that a new length scale, $l_mar$, for
turbulence can be defined, which corresponds to a memory
effect in the cascade dynamics, and which is closely
related to the Taylor micro-scale, $łambda$. For length
scales larger than $l_mar$, the complexity of turbulence
can be treated as a Markov process 2.
3. For longitudinal and transversal velocity increments
we present the reconstruction of the two dimensional
stochastic process equations, which shows that the cascade
evolves differently for the longitudinal and transversal
increments. A different ``speed'' of the cascade can explain the reported difference for
these two components. The rescaling symmetry is compatible with
the Kolmogorov constants and the von Karman equation
and gives new insight into the use of extended self
similarity (ESS) for transverse increments 3.
4. We present first results from the analysis of data from
non-isotropic flow situations and show
how the cascade process and Markov properties for both
longitudinal and transversal velocity increments change in
these cases.\\
Literature:
1) Ch. Renner, J. Peinke, and R. Friedrich: Markov
properties of small scale turbulence, J. Fluid Mech.
433, 383 (2001)\\
2) St. Lueck, Ch. Renner, J. Peinke, and R. Friedrich:
The Markov coherence length -- a new meaning for
the Taylor length in turbulence, Phys. Lett., in press\\
3) M. Siefert and J. Peinke: On a multi-scale approach
to analyze the joint statistics of longitudinal and
transverse increments experimentally in small scale
turbulence, J. of Turbulence 7, (No 50) 1-35
(2006)
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