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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2006

Properties of steady states in turbulent axisymmetric flows

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We experimentally study the properties of mean and most probable velocity fields in a turbulent von K{á}rm{á}n 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 non-homogeneous non-isotropic turbulent flow.

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hal-00163811 , version 1 (18-07-2007)

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Romain Monchaux, F. Ravelet, Bérengère Dubrulle, A. Chiffaudel, François Daviaud. Properties of steady states in turbulent axisymmetric flows. Physical Review Letters, 2006, 96, pp.124502-. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.124502⟩. ⟨hal-00163811⟩
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