Speaker: John Kaminsky

Title: Reynolds Number Dependence of the structure functions in Homogeneous Turbulence

 

Abstract: A major tool in the study of high Reynolds number, or turbulent, flow is the wind tunnel. The Variable Density Turbulence Tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization has produced some of the highest Taylor Reynolds number flows ever recorded. I will give an overview of my research, which examines the relationship between the experimental data from this wind tunnel with the Kolmogorov-Obukhov Theory of Turbulence, as viewed through the lens of velocity difference structure functions, and look at some potential results of this relationship. Some knowledge of probability will be beneficial.