Pope Model Shear Spectrum

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Short definition of Pope Model Shear Spectrum
The three-dimensional velocity spectrum proposed by Pope (2009)

This is the common definition for Pope Model Shear Spectrum, but other definitions maybe discussed within the wiki.

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The three-dimensional velocity spectrum proposed by Pope (2009)[1] can be used to derive the one-dimensional shear spectrum under the assumption that the turbulence is isotropic. The parameters of the three-dimensional Pope spectrum of velocity, and its form, is based on observations of along-profile velocity fluctuations and their rate of strain. An analytic approximation of this shear spectrum is

ΨP(k^1)=43(2π)4/3C1855k^11/3exp(β[(k^14+c24)1/4c2])

where C=1.558 is the three-dimensional Kolmogorov constant, β=38.3 comes from observations of one-dimensional along-profile velocity spectra, and c2=0.0273 makes the integral of ΨP equal to 2/15. The one-dimensional Kolmogorov constant is C1=0.51 for this model.

The integral of the Pope shear spectrum can be approximated by

IP(k^1)=1520k^1ΨP(ξ)dξ=tanh(50.5k^14/3)9.02k^14/3exp(113k^116/9)


The wavenumber at which a particular fraction of the variance of shear is resolved by these model spectra are listed in Table 2. The differences between the models are fairly small, and any one of them could be used to estimate the fraction of the variance that is resolved at a particular wavenumber, at the 10% level of accuracy. Put another way, for wavenumber larger than
k^1>0.02, which is the range that resolves more than 25% of the shear variance, the integral of all models are similar and, in particular, the models IN2 and NL agree to within better than 6% over this range. Thus, the choice of model for estimating the fraction of the shear variance that is resolved because of using an upper limit for spectral integration, is not critical. However, we do recommend using either IN2 or IL.


Table 2. The non-dimensional wavenumbers, in units of cpm, at which the model spectra resolve a specified fraction of the variance of shear. Column 1 – the fraction resolved. Columns 2 to 5 – the first and second model of the Nasmyth spectrum, the L spectrum, and the Pope spectrum, respectively.


% IN1 IN2 IL IP
35 0.027 0.026 0.025 0.028
50 0.037 0.036 0.034 0.038
75 0.058 0.057 0.055 0.058
80 0.064 0.065 0.062 0.065
85 0.072 0.075 0.072 0.073
90 0.085 0.091 0.088 0.084
95 0.125 0.120 0.116 0.106


References

  1. Pope, S. B., 2009:Turbulent Flows. Cambridge University Press.