Analysis of Velocity Fluctuation in Turbulence based on Generalized Statistics

Abstract

The numerical experiments of turbulence conducted by Gotoh et al. are analyzed precisely with the help of the formulae for the scaling exponents of velocity structure function and for the probability density function (PDF) of velocity fluctuations. These formulae are derived by the present authors with the multifractal aspect based on the statistics that are constructed on the generalized measures of entropy, i.e., the extensive Rényi's or the non-extensive Tsallis' entropy. It is revealed that there exist two scaling regions separated by a crossover length, i.e., a definite length approximately of the order of the Taylor microscale. It indicates that the multifractal distribution of singularities in velocity gradient in turbulent flow is robust enough to produce scaling behaviors even for the phenomena out side the inertial range.