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No one knows how to obtain stochastic solutions to the well-posed set of partial differential equations that govern turbulent flows. Averaging those nonlinear equations to obtain statistical quantities always leads to more unknowns than equations, and ad hoc modeling is then necessary to close the problem.
John Godfrey Saxe’s, 1816–1887, version of the fable ¯ “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” which occurs in the Udana, a canonical Hindu scripture) PROLOGUE The relatively recent realization that organized structures play an important role in all turbulent shear flows leads quite naturally to the concept of turbulence control via direct interference with these deterministic events. Active, predetermined, openloop control can be employed, but perhaps reactive control can be used much more effectively where specific coherent structures are sensed and then targeted for modulation to achieve a useful end result such as drag reduction, lift enhancement, and so forth.
Density then may change significantly, and the flow must be treated as compressible. Had pressure been nondimensionalized using the viscous scale ( μoLvo ) instead of the inertial one (ρo vo2 ), the revised Eq. 35) would have had Re−1 appearing explicitly in the first term in the right-hand side, accentuating the importance of this term when viscous forces dominate. 36) where s is the entropy. Again, the preceding equation assumes that pressure changes are inviscid, and therefore a small Mach number means negligible pressure and density changes.