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A discussion of the applicability of an effective-viscosity approach to turbulent flow suggests that there are flow situations where the approach is valid andyet present hypotheses fail. The general form of an effective-viscosity formulation is shown to be a finite tensor polynomial. For two-dimensional flows, the coefficients of this polynomial are evaluated from the modelled Reynolds-stress equations of Launder, Reece & Rodi (1975). The advantage of the proposed effective-viscosity formulation, equation (4.3), over isotropic-viscosity hypotheses is that the whole velocity-gradient tensor affects the predicted Reynolds stresses. Two notable consequences of this are that (i) the complete Reynoldsstress tensor is realistically modelled and (ii) the influence of streamline curvature on the Reynolds stresses is incorporated.

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A comprehensive study is reported of the Lagrangian statistics of velocity, acceleration, dissipation and related quantities, in isotropic turbulence. High-resolution direct numerical simulations are performed on 643 and 1283 grids, resulting in Taylor-scale Reynolds numbers Rλ in the range 38-93. The low-wavenumber modes of the velocity field are forced so that the turbulence is statistically stationary. Using an accurate numerical scheme, of order 4000 fluid particles are tracked through the computed flow field, and hence time series of Lagrangian velocity and velocity gradients are obtained.The results reported include: velocity and acceleration autocorrelations and spectra; probability density functions (p.d.f.'s) and moments of Lagrangian velocity increments; and p.d.f.'s, correlation functions and spectra of dissipation and other velocity-gradient invariants. It is found that the acceleration variance (normalized by the Kolmogorov scales) increases as R½λ - a much stronger dependence than predicted by the refined Kolmogorov hypotheses. At small time lags, the Lagrangian velocity increments are distinctly non-Gaussian with, for example, flatness factors in excess of 10. The enstrophy (vorticity squared) is found to be more intermittent than dissipation, having a standard-deviation-to-mean ratio of about 1.5 (compared to 1.0 for dissipation). The acceleration vector rotates on a timescale about twice the Kolmogorov scale, while the timescales of acceleration magnitude, dissipation and enstrophy appear to scale with the Lagrangian velocity timescale.

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