Alternative statistical-mechanical descriptions of decaying two-dimensional turbulence in terms of "patches" and "points"

Details Alternative statistical-mechanical descriptions of decaying two-dimensional turbulence in terms of "patches" and "points" Alternative statistical-mechanical descriptions of decaying two-dimensional turbulence in terms of "patches" and "points"

2002-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0211024v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

21 pages, 24 figures: submitted to "Physics of Fluids"

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1578078

Numerical and analytical studies of decaying, two-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stokes (NS) turbulence at high Reynolds numbers are reported. The effort is to determine computable distinctions between two different formulations of maximum entropy predictions for the decayed, late-time state. Both formulations define an entropy through a somewhat ad hoc discretization of vorticity to the "particles" of which statistical mechanical methods are employed to define an entropy, before passing to a mean-field limit. In one case, the particles are delta-function parallel "line" vortices ("points" in two dimensions), and in the other, they are finite-area, mutually-exclusive convected "patches" of vorticity which in the limit of zero area become "points." We use time-dependent, spectral-method direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations to see if initial conditions which should relax to different late-time states under the two formulations actually do so.

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