COMPARISON BETWEEN THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS IN TURBULENT PIPE FLOWS

This page contains the recent results of my theory, as it is applied to turbulent shear flows, and in particular the predictions of the theory for duct flows (i.e. internal flows in a cylindrical geometry of arbitrary cross-section with a well defined mean direction of motion).

The following images show the comparison between the theory presented in Phys. Fluids 10 (6) (see my `Journal Publications' page for details) and data collected from various sources, as indicated below. The agreement is quite good for three orders of magnitude in the Reynolds number.