Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2000-07-12
Zapiski Nauch. Semin. POMI 269 (2000) 79
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
A brief review is given of recent results devoted to the effects of large-scale anisotropy on the inertial-range statistics of the passive scalar quantity $\theta(t,{\bf x})$, advected by the synthetic turbulent velocity field with the covariance $\propto\delta(t-t')|{\bf x}-{\bf x'}|^{\eps}$. Inertial-range anomalous scaling behavior is established, and explicit asymptotic expressions for the structure functions $ S_n (\r) \equiv < [\theta(t,{\bf x}+\r)-\theta(t,{\bf x})]^{n}>$ are obtained; they are represented by superpositions of power laws with universal (independent of the anisotropy parameters) anomalous exponents, calculated to the first order in $\eps$ in any space dimension. The exponents are associated with tensor composite operators built of the scalar gradients, and exhibit a kind of hierarchy related to the degree of anisotropy: the less is the rank, the less is the dimension and, consequently, the more important is the contribution to the inertial-range behavior. The leading terms of the even (odd) structure functions are given by the scalar (vector) operators. The small-scale anisotropy reveals itself in odd correlation functions: for the incompressible velocity field, $S_{3}/S_{2}^{3/2}$ decreases going down towards to the depth of the inertial range, while the higher-order odd ratios increase; if the compressibility is strong enough, the skewness factor also becomes increasing.
Antonov Nikolaj V.
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