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Small-scale variation of convected quantities like temperature in turbulent fluid Part 2. The case of large conductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. K. Batchelor
Affiliation:
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
I. D. Howells
Affiliation:
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
A. A. Townsend
Affiliation:
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Abstract

The analysis reported in Part 1 is extended here to the case in which the conductivity κ is large compared with the viscosity ν, the conduction ‘cut-off’ to the θ-spectrum then being at wave-number (ε/κ3)¼. It is shown, with a plausible and consistent hypothesis, that the convective supply of $\overline {\theta^2}$-stuff to Fourier components of θ with wave-numbers n in the range (ε/κ3)¼ [Lt ] n [Gt ] (ε/ν3)¼ is due primarily to motion on a length scale of order n-1 acting on a uniform gradient of θ of magnitude $[(\overline {\nabla \theta)^2}]^{\frac {1}{2}}$. The consequent form of the theta;-spectrum within this same wave-number range is $\Gamma (n) = \frac {1}{3}C \chi \epsilon ^{\frac {2}{3}} k^{-3}n^ {-\frac {17} {3}}.$

The way in which conduction influences (and restricts) the effect of convection on the distribution of θ at these wave-numbers beyond the conduction cut-off is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1959 Cambridge University Press

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References

Batchelor, G. K. 1959 J. Fluid Mech. 5, 113.
Clarke, E. W. & Rothschild, Lord 1957 Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 147, 316.
Townsend, A. A. 1951 Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 208, 534.