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Approximate calculation of Lagrangian statistical functions of fluid particle pairs in isotropic turbulence

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Using a hypothesis of an approximate relation between Eulerian and Lagrangian statistical functions of turbulence, calculations of one- and two-particle Lagrangian correlation tensors of fluid particle displacements and velocities in a field of isotropic and stationary turbulence are given.

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Krasitskii, V.P. Approximate calculation of Lagrangian statistical functions of fluid particle pairs in isotropic turbulence. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 54, 231–247 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00183955

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