A new approach to turbulent transport of a mean scalar

DOI10.1063/1.1613281MaRDI QIDQ3554107zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George B. Field, Eric G. Blackman

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302013

zbMATH Keywords

differential equationsturbulencetransport processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: We develop a simple mean field approach to the transport of a passive scalar for which the fundamental equation is a second order differential equation in the transported quantity, not a first order equation. Triple correlations are included, as they must be for any realistic description of turbulence. No correlation time enters the theory, only an eddy turnover time. The approach is simpler than standard approaches which incorporate triple correlations, but more realistic than Gaussian or short correlation time closures which do not. A similar approach has proven useful in magnetohydrodynamics.

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