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Published on: February 3, 2014
Properties of steady states in turbulent axisymmetric flows
R Monchaux1, F Ravelet, B Dubrulle
1Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, DSM, CEA Saclay, CNRS URA 2464, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. romain.monchaux@cea.fr
Abstract:
We experimentally study the properties of mean and most probable velocity fields in a turbulent von Kármán flow. These fields are found to be described by two families of functions, as predicted by a recent statistical mechanics study of 3D axisymmetric flows. We show that these functions depend on the viscosity and on the forcing. Furthermore, when the Reynolds number is increased, we exhibit a tendency for Beltramization of the flow, i.e., a velocity-vorticity alignment. This result provides a first experimental evidence of nonlinearity depletion in nonhomogeneous nonisotropic turbulent flow.
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