Sweeping and straining effects in sound generation by high Reynolds number isotropic turbulence

The sound radiated by isotropic turbulence is computed using inertial range scaling expressions for the relevant two-time and two-point correlations. The result depends on whether the decay of Eulerian time correlations is dominated by large scale sweeping or by local straining: the straining hypothesis leads to an expression for total acoustic power given originally by Proudman, whereas the sweeping hypothesis leads to a more recent result due to Lilley.