Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2001-04-09
Phys. Rev. E, 64 (2001) 016314
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
11 pages, 10 Postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.64.016314
We consider the two-dimensional (2D) flow in a flat free-slip surface that bounds a three-dimensional (3D) volume in which the flow is turbulent. The equations of motion for the two-dimensional flow in the surface are neither compressible nor incompressible but strongly influenced by the 3D flow underneath the surface. The velocity correlation functions in the 2D surface and in the 3D volume scale with the same exponents. In the viscous subrange the amplitudes are the same, but in the inertial subrange the 2D one is reduced to 2/3 of the 3D amplitude. The surface flow is more strongly intermittent than the 3D volume flow. Geometric scaling theory is used to derive a relation between the scaling of the velocity field and the density fluctuations of a passive scalar advected on the surface.
Eckhardt Bruno
Schumacher Joerg
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