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Midterm Me438 06052021
Midterm Me438 06052021
The model also assumes that the turbulence energy is extracted from the
mean flow energy by some large scale eddies and is transmitted to
smaller scales by the energy dissipation process which cascades the
energy from large eddies to smaller and smaller eddies. At the smaller
eddy end of the spectrum, these eddies are so small that they are
dissipated by the viscosity. This dissipation process occurs at a
constant rate for each eddy scale. This is called the dissipation rate of
the turbulence kinetic energy ki (for a given eddy “i”) divided by the
characteristic time scale ti (a kind of eddy turn over time) of the same
eddy (in all relations/equations below the sign “∞” should be understood
as “proportional to”):
ki ∞ ui2 ti ∞ ℓi / ui ɛ ∞ ui3 / ℓi
The energy cascade (or the energy transfer from large scales to small
scales), is only determined by two parameters: the dissipation rate ɛ and
the kinematic viscosity ν
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QUESTION1: By using the Buckinghan PI theorem, determine the
expressions of the
ɛ ∞ u3 / L
demonstrate the power law between the ratio of the integral length
scale and the Kolmogorov length scale, L / ℓk, and the turbulent
Reynolds number based on the integral length scale and its associated
fluctuation velocity, ReL = u L / ν , such as
between the Damköhler number (Da) defined as the ratio between the
integral time scale tL and the chemical time scale (or the characteristic
laminar flame time scale) tF,
the Karlovitz number (Ka) defined as the ratio between the chemical
time scale tF and the Kolmogorov time scale tk
and the turbulent Reynolds number based on the integral length scale,
ReL