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VOLUME 84 | ISSUE 2 | PAGE 67 Analytic Model of the Universal Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers V. S. L'vov, I. Procaccia, O. Rudenko The Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel PACS: 05.45.Df, 05.70.Fh, 61.43.Hv Abstract Turbulent boundary layers exhibit a universal structure which nevertheless is rather complex, being composed of a viscous sub-layer, a buffer zone, and a turbulent log-law region. In this letter we present a simple analytic model of turbulent boundary layers which culminates in explicit formulae for the profiles of the mean velocity, the kinetic energy and the Reynolds stress as a function of the distance from the wall. The resulting profiles are in close quantitative agreement with measurements over the entire structure of the boundary layer, without any need of re-fitting in the different zones. Download PS file (GZipped, 229.2K)  |  Download PDF file (313.9K) Список работ, цитирующих данную статью, см. здесь. List of articles citing this article can be found here.