{"paper":{"title":"Karman constant and accurate mean flow prediction in a turbulent pipe","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.flu-dyn","authors_text":"Fazle Hussain, Xi Chen, You Wu, Zhen-Su She","submitted_at":"2011-12-29T13:58:53Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Karman constant \\kappa - widely used in atmospheric science and engineering turbulence modelling, and proposed by Prandtl in 1925 and von Karman in 1930 to describe the mean velocity of a turbulent wall-bounded flow - leads to a logarithmic profile in an overlap region near the wall. For over eighty years, its value was believed to be ~0.41. But more recently, many argue that it is not a constant, because of measured variations in different flows and at different Reynolds numbers (Re). Here, a multi-layer analytic theory is shown to lead to a re-interpretation of \\kappa as a global constan"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1112.6310","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}