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Turbulent mixing

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Title Turbulent mixing
 
Creator Dimotakis, Paul E.
 
Subject Caltech Library Services
 
Description The ability of turbulent flows to effectively mix entrained fluids to a molecular scale is a vital part of the dynamics of such flows, with wide-ranging consequences in nature and engineering. It is a considerable experimental, theoretical, modeling, and computational challenge to capture and represent turbulent mixing which, for high Reynolds number (Re) flows, occurs across a spectrum of scales of considerable span. This consideration alone places high-Re mixing phenomena beyond the reach of direct simulation, especially in high Schmidt number fluids, such as water, in which species diffusion scales are one and a half orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest flow scales. The discussion below attempts to provide an overview of turbulent mixing; the attendant experimental, theoretical, and computational challenges; and suggests possible future directions for progress in this important field.
 
Date 2005
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://authors.library.caltech.edu/284/1/DIMarfm.pdf
Dimotakis, Paul E. (2005) Turbulent mixing. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 37 (1). pp. 329-356. ISSN 0066-4189. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:DIMarfm05 <http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:DIMarfm05>
 
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