https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510070146
Intermittency in a turbulent low temperature gaseous helium jet
Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex
9, France
Received:
13
October
1999
Revised:
19
May
2000
Published online: 15 September 2000
We analyse experimental velocity measurements on the axis of a low temperature gaseous helium jet. From independent increments arguments, we reproduce the behaviour of structure functions. We show where this approach fails and how the intermittency phenomenon is a small correction. The physical arguments under the multiplicative cascade models for this intermittency imply an acceleration of this cascade close to the dissipative range, which we are able to evidence. This acceleration could be responsible of the apparent Extended Self Similarity between structure functions of various orders.
PACS: 47.27.Wg – Jets / 47.27.Gs – Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence / 47.27.Jv – High-Reynolds-number turbulence / 05.10.Gg – Stochastic analysis methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
