Passive scalar intermittency in low temperature helium flows |
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Authors: | Moisy F Willaime H Andersen J S Tabeling P |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. |
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Abstract: | We report new measurements of mixing of passive temperature field in a turbulent flow. The use of low temperature helium gas allows us to span a range of microscale Reynolds number, R(lambda), from 100 to 650. The exponents xi(n) of the temperature structure functions approximately r(xi(n)) are shown to saturate to xi(infinity) approximately 1.45+/-0.1 for the highest orders, n approximately 10. This saturation is a signature of statistics dominated by frontlike structures, the cliffs. Statistics of the cliffs' characteristics are performed, particularly their widths are shown to scale as the Kolmogorov length scale. |
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