Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence in two dimensions

Details Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence in two dimensions Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence in two dimensions

2005-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0510067v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134504 (2006)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.134504

The first consistent phenomenological theory for two and three dimensional Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence has recently been presented by Chertkov [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91} 115001 (2003)]. By means of direct numerical simulations we confirm the spatio/temporal prediction of the theory in two dimensions and explore the breakdown of the phenomenological description due to intermittency effects. We show that small-scale statistics of velocity and temperature follow Bolgiano-Obukhov scaling. At the level of global observables we show that the time-dependent Nusselt and Reynolds numbers scale as the square root of the Rayleigh number. These results point to the conclusion that Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence in two and three dimensions, thanks to the absence of boundaries, provides a natural physical realization of the Kraichnan scaling regime hitherto associated with the elusive ``ultimate state of thermal convection''.

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