RÉSUMÉ

The classical picture of one mean dissipation scale which is known as the Kolmogorov length can be extended to a continuum of local dissipation scales in order to capture for the intermittent nature of small-scale turbulence. The distribution of these local dissipation scales is found to agree with a recently calculated analytical form. We discuss consequences of this generalized perspective for the decay of energy spectra in the far-dissipation range and the turbulent mixing of passive scalars in the viscous-convective range at Schmidt numbers larger than unity.