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Time series of vertically integrated concentrations (VIC) across neutrally buoyant plumes are used to study the fractal and multifractal characteristics of passive scalar fluctuations in turbulent flow fields. Here, the multifractal analysis is based on a novel definition of the singularity spectrum-F(α) of the time records. Approximations for quantities such as the fractal dimension and the spectral exponent are derived as functions ofF(α) and are compared with the experimental results. Among other things, we show that VIC records are characterized by two typical subdomains. One domain, which is related to integrated concentration fluctuations, is a subfractal process; whereas the second one, which is directly related to the concentration fluctuations, is a fractal process.
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Hadad, A., Stiassnie, M., Poreh, M. et al. Fractal aspects of integrated concentration fluctuations. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 62, 291–302 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705560
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