Model for the spatio-temporal intermittency of the energy dissipation in turbulent flows

Details Model for the spatio-temporal intermittency of the energy dissipation in turbulent flows Model for the spatio-temporal intermittency of the energy dissipation in turbulent flows

2007-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0702015v1

Phys. Rev. E, 74, 026306 (2006)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

22 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.026306

Modeling the intermittent behavior of turbulent energy dissipation processes both in space and time is often a relevant problem when dealing with phenomena occurring in high Reynolds number flows, especially in astrophysical and space fluids. In this paper, a dynamical model is proposed to describe the spatio-temporal intermittency of energy dissipation rate in a turbulent system. This is done by using a shell model to simulate the turbulent cascade and introducing some heuristic rules, partly inspired by the well known $p$-model, to construct a spatial structure of the energy dissipation rate. In order to validate the model and to study its spatially intermittency properties, a series of numerical simulations have been performed. These show that the level of spatial intermittency of the system can be simply tuned by varying a single parameter of the model and that scaling laws in agreement with those obtained from experiments on fully turbulent hydrodynamic flows can be recovered. It is finally suggested that the model could represent a useful tool to simulate the spatio-temporal intermittency of turbulent energy dissipation in those high Reynolds number astrophysical fluids where impulsive energy release processes can be associated to the dynamics of the turbulent cascade.

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