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8 October 2015 Bumps of the wave structure function in non-Kolmogorov turbulence
Chunhong Qiao, Lu Lu, Pengfei Zhang, Haitao Wang, Honghua Huang, Chengyu Fan
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Abstract
The analytical expressions for wave structure function of plane and spherical waves are derived both in the viscous dissipation and inertial range. Due to previously research, there is a discrepancy between theoretical results and the experimental datum in viscous dissipation range. In this paper, only considering the inertial range, taking plane waves for example, we give a comparison of results of WSF calculated by the analytical formula obtained in this paper and the numerical calculations of the definition at the fixed parameter (i.e., the generalized exponent α), it can be seen that the two results are in agreement with each other exactly. Based on non-Kolmogorov power spectrum, new characteristics for wave structure function (WSF) have been found for plane and spherical wave models when the different ratio of inner scale l0 and outer scale of turbulence L0 is obtained. In outer scale assumed finite case (i.e., L0 =1m), WSF obtains the maximum when α approximates to 3.3 both for plane and spherical wave models. In outer scale assumed infinite case (i.e., L0 = ∞), the WSF can be sorted into three parts, including two rapid-rising regions (i.e., 3.0 < α < 3.3 and 3.8 < α < 4.0 ) and one gently rising region (i.e., 3.3 < α < 3.8 ).Further, the changes of scaled WSF versus the ratio of separation distance and inner scale ( p/ l0 ) are investigated under mentioned above conditions for two models. In L0 = 1m case, both for plane and spherical waves, the value of α determines the bump position of WSF. In L0 = ∞ case, the bump of scaled WSF disappears when the generalized exponent has large values. The changings of scaled WSF monotonically increase as α increased when the generalized exponent is larger than11/3 for two models. Besides, the properties of spherical waves are similar to plane waves, except which the values of WSF and the scaled WSF are smaller than plane ones.
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Chunhong Qiao, Lu Lu, Pengfei Zhang, Haitao Wang, Honghua Huang, and Chengyu Fan "Bumps of the wave structure function in non-Kolmogorov turbulence", Proc. SPIE 9641, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XVIII, 96410L (8 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214969
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KEYWORDS
Spherical lenses

Turbulence

Analytical research

Atmospheric optics

Digital signal processing

Atmospheric propagation

Atmospheric turbulence

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