Far Dissipation Range of Turbulence

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1993-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9303001v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3051

The very small scales of isotropic, Navier-Stokes turbulence at Reynolds number ${\cal R}_\lambda \approx 15$ are studied by high-resolution direct numerical simulation (DNS) and by integration of the direct-interaction (DIA) equations. The DNS follows the tail of the energy spectrum over more than thirty decades of magnitude. The energy spectrum in the far-dissipation range $5k_d < k < 10k_d$ is well-fitted by $k^\alpha\exp(-ck/k_d)$, where $k_d$ is the Kolmogorov dissipation wavenumber, $\alpha \approx 3.3$ and $c\approx 7.1$. For values of $m$ that emphasize the far-dissipation range, the fields $(-\nabla^2)^m{\bf u}$ exhibit strong spatial intermittency, associated with gentle spatial variations of the lower-$k$ part of the velocity field. DIA analysis gives a prefactor $k^3$ and an exponential decay more rapid than DNS. Averaging over an ensemble of DIA solutions, suggested by the observed intermittency, removes some of the discrepancy.

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