The decay of Batchelor and Saffman rotating turbulence

Details The decay of Batchelor and Saffman rotating turbulence The decay of Batchelor and Saffman rotating turbulence

2012-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2201v1

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Fluid Dynamics

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The decay rate of isotropic and homogeneous turbulence is known to be affected by the large-scale spectrum of the initial perturbations, associated with at least two cannonical self-preserving solutions of the von K\'arm\'an-Howarth equation: the so-called Batchelor and Saffman spectra. The effect of long-range correlations in the decay of anisotropic flows is less clear, and recently it has been proposed that the decay rate of rotating turbulence may be independent of the large-scale spectrum of the initial perturbations. We analyze numerical simulations of freely decaying rotating turbulence with initial energy spectra $\sim k^4$ (Batchelor turbulence) and $\sim k^2$ (Saffman turbulence) and show that, while a self-similar decay cannot be identified for the total energy, the decay is indeed affected by long-range correlations. The decay of two-dimensional and three-dimensional modes follows distinct power laws in each case, which are consistent with predictions derived from the anisotropic von K\'arm\'an-Howarth equation, and with conservation of anisotropic integral quantities by the flow evolution.

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