Random walk models for particle displacements in inhomogeneous unsteady turbulent flows

DOI10.1063/1.864956zbMath0611.76073MaRDI QIDQ3751256

F. T. M. Nieuwstadt, Julian C. R. Hunt, Han Van Dop

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864956

zbMATH Keywords

Langevin equation; random walk model; Fokker- Planck equation; second moments; convective boundary layer; heuristic derivation; scales of turbulence; analysis of fluid particle kinematics; Eulerian conservation equations; Eulerian conservation of mass equations; inhomogeneous and non- stationary turbulence; inhomogeneous unsteady turbulent flow; K-diffusion equation; local energy dissipation rate; statistics of the Lagrangian velocities; zero-skewness steady turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks

60J60: Diffusion processes

76F99: Turbulence

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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