Extreme fluctuations and the finite lifetime of the turbulent state

2009/06/30 by Nigel Goldenfeld, Nicholas Guttenberg, Gustavo Gioia · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.flu-dyn #nlin.CD

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.81.035304

Change log: Universality of c2/c1 argument has been removed, scaling with size of puff added. To appear in Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications.

arxiv created 2010/03/10 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13

Abstract

We argue that the transition to turbulence is controlled by large amplitude events that follow extreme distribution theory. The theory suggests an explanation for recent observations of the turbulent state lifetime which exhibit super-exponential scaling behaviour with Reynolds number.

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