The Lagrangian spectral relaxation model for differential diffusion in homogeneous turbulence

RO Fox - Physics of Fluids, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
The Lagrangian spectral relaxation (LSR) model is extended to treat turbulent mixing of two
passive scalars (φ α and φ β) with different molecular diffusivity coefficients (ie, differential …

Improved Lagrangian mixing models for passive scalars in isotropic turbulence

RO Fox, PK Yeung - Physics of Fluids, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Lagrangian data for velocity, scalars, and energy and scalar dissipation from direct
numerical simulations are used to validate Lagrangian mixing models for inert passive …

The Lagrangian spectral relaxation model of the scalar dissipation in homogeneous turbulence

RO Fox - Physics of Fluids, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Lagrangian pdf methods are employed to extend the spectral relaxation (SR) model of the
scalar dissipation of an inert, passive scalar (1⩽ Sc) in homogeneous turbulence. The …

Differentially diffusing scalars in turbulence

V Nilsen, G Kosály - Physics of Fluids, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) data are presented to study differentially diffusing
conserved scalars in isotropic turbulence. The two scalars are initially identical but …

Multi-scalar triadic interactions in differential diffusion with and without mean scalar gradients

PK Yeung - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1996 - cambridge.org
The spectral mechanisms of the differential diffusion of pairs of passive scalars with different
molecular diffusivities are studied in stationary isotropic turbulence, using direct numerical …

Dynamics of scalar dissipation in isotropic turbulence: a numerical and modelling study

P Vedula, PK Yeung, RO Fox - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2001 - cambridge.org
The physical mechanisms underlying the dynamics of the dissipation of passive scalar
fluctuations with a uniform mean gradient in stationary isotropic turbulence are studied using …

A spectral study of differential diffusion of passive scalars in isotropic turbulence

M Ulitsky, T Vaithianathan, LR Collins - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002 - cambridge.org
In a companion paper, Ulitsky & Collins (2000) applied the eddy-damped quasi-normal
Markovian (EDQNM) turbulence theory to the mixing of two inert passive scalars with …

Lagrangian characteristics of turbulence and scalar transport in direct numerical simulations

PK Yeung - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2001 - cambridge.org
A study of the Lagrangian statistical properties of velocity and passive scalar fields using
direct numerical simulations is presented, for the case of stationary isotropic turbulence with …

Correlations and conditional statistics in differential diffusion: Scalars with uniform mean gradients

PK Yeung - Physics of Fluids, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
A number of statistical measures of the differential diffusion of multiple scalars driven by
uniform mean gradients are studied by direct numerical simulation (DNS), in isotropic …

Shear-free turbulent diffusion—classical and new scaling laws

M Oberlack, S Guenther - Fluid Dynamics Research, 2003 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of turbulence generation at a vibrating grid in the x2–x3 plane.
Turbulence diffuses in the x1-direction. Analyzing the multi-point correlation equation using …