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Pressure spectra in turbulent flows in the inertial and the dissipation ranges
Sipei Zhao1, Eva Cheng1, Xiaojun Qiu2
1School and Engineering, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Abstract:
Based on existing studies that provide the pressure spectra in turbulent flows from the asymptotic pressure structure function in the inertial range, this paper extends the pressure spectrum to the dissipation range by proposing a pressure structure function model that incorporates both the inertial and dissipation ranges. Existing experiment results were used to validate the proposed pressure structure function model first, and then the obtained pressure spectrum was compared with the simulation and measurement data in the literature and the wind-induced noise measured outdoors. All comparisons demonstrate that the pressure spectrum obtained from the proposed pressure structure function model can be used to estimate the pressure spectra in both the inertial and dissipation ranges in turbulent flows with a sufficiently large Reynolds number.
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