Friction factor for turbulent flow in rough pipes from Heisenberg’s closure hypothesis

ESTEBAN CALZETTA

PHYSICAL REVIEW E

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: Ridge; Año: 2009 vol. 79 p. 56311 - 56311

1539-3755

We show that the main results of the analysis of the friction factor for turbulent pipe flow reported by Gioiaand Chakraborty Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 2006 can be recovered by assuming the Heisenberg closurehypothesis for the turbulent spectrum. This highlights the structural features of the turbulent spectrum underlyingthe analysis of Gioia and Chakraborty.