A Stochastic Representation of the Local Structure of Turbulence

Details A Stochastic Representation of the Local Structure of Turbulence A Stochastic Representation of the Local Structure of Turbulence

2009-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/0906.5225v3

Europhys. Lett. 89, 54002 (2010).

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

6 pages, 3 figures, final version, published.

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/89/54002

Based on the mechanics of the Euler equation at short time, we show that a Recent Fluid Deformation (RFD) closure for the vorticity field, neglecting the early stage of advection of fluid particles, allows to build a 3D incompressible velocity field that shares many properties with empirical turbulence, such as the teardrop shape of the R-Q plane. Unfortunately, non gaussianity is weak (i.e. no intermittency) and vorticity gets preferentially aligned with the wrong eigenvector of the deformation. We then show that slightly modifying the former vectorial field in order to impose the long range correlated nature of turbulence allows to reproduce the main properties of stationary flows. Doing so, we end up with a realistic incompressible, skewed and intermittent velocity field that reproduces the main characteristics of 3D turbulence in the inertial range, including correct vorticity alignment properties.

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