Statistics of Intense Turbulent Vorticity Events

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2004-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402242v1

Phys. Rev. E 70, R25302 (2004).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, RevTex4, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.025302

We investigate statistical properties of vorticity fluctuations in fully developed turbulence, which are known to exhibit a strong intermittent behavior. Taking as the starting point the Navier-Stokes equations with a random force term correlated at large scales, we obtain in the high Reynolds number regime a closed analytical expression for the probability distribution function of an arbitrary component of the vorticity field. The central idea underlying the analysis consists in the phase-space restriction to a particular sector where the rate of strain and the rotation tensors can be locally regarded as slow and fast degrees of freedom, respectively. This prescription is implemented along the Martin-Siggia-Rose functional framework, whereby instantons and perturbations around them are taken into account within a steepest-descent approach.

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