Kármán–Howarth equation

In isotropic turbulence the Kármán-Howarth equation (after Theodore von Kármán and Leslie Howarth 1938), which is derived from the Navier-Stokes equations, is used to describe the evolution of non-dimensional longitudinal autocorrelation.

See also

Kármán–Howarth–Monin equation (Andrei Monin's anisotropic generalization of the Kármán–Howarth relation)

References

Uriel Frisch. Turbulence: the legacy of A.N. Kolmogorov. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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