A study of the Navier-Stokes-alpha model for two-dimensional turbulence

Details A study of the Navier-Stokes-alpha model for two-dimensional turbulence A study of the Navier-Stokes-alpha model for two-dimensional turbulence

2007-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702196v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

23 pages, 7 figures

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For wavenumbers k such that k * alpha > 1, corresponding to spatial scales smaller than alpha, there are three candidate power laws for the energy spectrum of the Navier-Stokes-alpha model, corresponding to three possible dynamical eddy turnover time scales in the model equations: one from the smoothed field, the second from the rough field and the third from a special combination of the two. Using two-dimensional turbulence as a test case, we measure the scaling of the spectra from high-resolution simulations of the Navier-Stokes-alpha model, in the limit as alpha goes to infinity. We show that the energy spectrum of the smoothed velocity field scales as k^{-7} in the direct enstrophy cascade regime, consistent with dynamics dominated by the time scale of the rough velocity field.

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