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Derivation · draft

Kolmogorov's Four-Fifths Law

Statement

Derives the exact -4/5 scaling of the third-order longitudinal velocity structure function from the Kármán-Howarth equation under homogeneous isotropic turbulence.

Depends on

Navier-Stokes from the Newtonian Constitutive Law, The Vorticity Transport Equation, The Reynolds Number from Nondimensionalisation

Used by

PU-307/L28