Tracer density discontinuities in turbulent flows: simple model and scaling laws

Details Tracer density discontinuities in turbulent flows: simple model and scaling laws Tracer density discontinuities in turbulent flows: simple model and scaling laws

2007-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/0710.5003v1

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Fluid Dynamics

4 pages

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Mixing in fully developed incompressible turbulent flows is known to lead to a cascade of discontinuity fronts of passive scalar fields. A one-dimensional (1D) variant of Baker's map is developed, capturing the main mechanism responsible for the emergence of these discontinuities. For this 1D model, expressions for the height-distribution function of the discontinuity fronts and structure function scaling exponents $\zeta_p$ are derived [for Kolmogorov turbulence, $\zeta_p=\frac 23\log_3(p+1)$]. These analytic findings are in a good agreement with both our 1D simulations, and the results of earlier numerical and experimental studies.

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