Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2009-07-07
Physical Review E 81, 016310 (2010)
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
2 tables, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.81.016310
We analyze the isotropic component of turbulent flows spanning a broad range of Reynolds numbers. The aim is to identify scaling laws and their Reynolds number dependence in flows under different mechanical forcings. To this end, we applied an SO(3) decomposition to data stemming from direct numerical simulations with spatial resolutions ranging from 64^3 to 1024^3 grid points, and studied the scaling of high order moments of the velocity field. The study was carried out for two different flows obtained forcing the system with a Taylor-Green vortex or the Arn'old-Beltrami-Childress flow. Our results indicate that helicity has no significant impact on the scaling exponents. Intermittency effects increase with the Reynolds number in the range of parameters studied, and are larger than what can be expected from several models in the literature. Finally, we confirm previous results showing the use of the SO(3) decomposition improves the convergence of scaling exponents.
Martin L. N.
Mininni Pablo Daniel
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