Pair dispersion in synthetic fully developed turbulence

Details Pair dispersion in synthetic fully developed turbulence Pair dispersion in synthetic fully developed turbulence

1998-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9807026v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

9 pages, 9 ps figures, submitted to Physics of Fluids

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.60.6734

The Lagrangian statistics of relative dispersion in fully developed turbulence is numerically investigated. A scaling range spanning many decades is achieved by generating a synthetic velocity field with prescribed Eulerian statistical features. When the velocity field obeys Kolmogorov similarity, the Lagrangian statistics is self similar too, and in agreement with Richardson's predictions. For an intermittent velocity field the scaling laws for the Lagrangian statistics are found to depend on Eulerian intermittency in agreement with a multifractal description. As a consequence of the Kolmogorov law the Richardson law for the variance of pair separation is not affected by intermittency corrections. A new analysis method, based on fixed scale averages instead of usual fixed time statistics, is shown to give much wider scaling range and should be preferred for the analysis of experimental data.

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