Statistical Mechanics of Shell Models for 2D-Turbulence

Details Statistical Mechanics of Shell Models for 2D-Turbulence Statistical Mechanics of Shell Models for 2D-Turbulence

1994-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9405006v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

25 pages + 9 figures, TeX dialect: RevTeX 3.0

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.50.4705

We study shell models that conserve the analogues of energy and enstrophy, hence designed to mimic fluid turbulence in 2D. The main result is that the observed state is well described as a formal statistical equilibrium, closely analogous to the approach to two-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics of Onsager, Hopf and Lee. In the presence of forcing and dissipation we observe a forward flux of enstrophy and a backward flux of energy. These fluxes can be understood as mean diffusive drifts from a source to two sinks in a system which is close to local equilibrium with Lagrange multipliers (``shell temperatures'') changing slowly with scale. The dimensional predictions on the power spectra from a supposed forward cascade of enstrophy, and from one branch of the formal statistical equilibrium, coincide in these shell models at difference to the corresponding predictions for the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations in 2D. This coincidence have previously led to the mistaken conclusion that shell models exhibit a forward cascade of enstrophy.

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