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Some Contributions of Two-Point Closure to Turbulence

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Frontiers in Fluid Mechanics

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Since their introduction over thirty years ago, two-point-moment closures have offered promise of providing practical and theoretical information concerning certain aspects of turbulent flows. More recently, both experiments and direct numerical simulations have suggested a high degree of organization (coherent structures) in even homogeneous flows, which contradicts—at least in its extreme form—the assumption of near Gaussianity central to closures. We examine here some successes and failures of closure for several problems including three-dimensional turbulence, and quasi-two-dimensional flows of the sort employed in geophysical context.

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    Jackson R. Herring

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  1. The Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA

    Stephen H. Davis Ph.D.

  2. Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 238 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    John L. Lumley Ph.D.

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Herring, J.R. (1985). Some Contributions of Two-Point Closure to Turbulence. In: Davis, S.H., Lumley, J.L. (eds) Frontiers in Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46543-7_4

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