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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 3(68), p. 305-308, 1992

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.68.305

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Empirical determination of universal multifractal exponents in turbulent velocity fields

Journal article published in 1992 by F. Schmitt ORCID, D. La Vallée, D. Schertzer, S. Lovejoy
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Abstract

It is now apparent that the two principal models of turbulence (the 'beta' and 'lognormal' models) are the extremes of a continuous family of (stable, attractive, hence 'universal') multifractals characterized by Levy indices alpha = 0 and 2, respectively. Using a technique called 'double trace moment analysis', and turbulent velocity data, alpha of about 1.3 +/-0.1 is empirically obtained. As has long been suspected, turbulence really is 'in between' the Beta and lognormal models. This describes the entire hierarchy of singularities of the Navier-Stokes equations.