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Experimental test of the crossover between the inertial and the dissipative range in a turbulent swirling flow

Paul Debue, Denis Kuzzay, Ewe-Wei Saw, François Daviaud, and Bérengère Dubrulle

Léonie Canet and Vincent Rossetto

Nicolás Wschebor

  • SPEC, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  • Université Grenoble Alpes and CNRS, LPMMC, 38000 Grenoble, France

  • Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Julio Herrera y Reissig 565, 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 024602 – Published 9 February, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.024602

Abstract

The kinetic energy spectrum of high-Reynolds turbulent swirling flows is experimentally studied. This spectrum, obtained from direct measurements in space, exhibits nearly two decades of Kolmogorov k−5/3 decay in the inertial range of scales. Beyond this regime, in the dissipative range of scales, a crossover to a stretched exponential decay on scale k2/3 is observed, in full agreement with a recent theoretical prediction based on nonperturbative renormalization group theory.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 024602– Published 9 February, 2018
  • Received 15 June 2017
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