Variation on the Kolmogorov Forcing: Asymptotic Dissipation Rate Driven by Harmonic Forcing

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2009-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1897v1

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 670 , 2011, 204 - 213

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

11 pages, 4 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1017/S0022112010006294

The relation between the shape of the force driving a turbulent flow and the upper bound on the dimensionless dissipation factor $\beta$ is presented. We are interested in non-trivial (more than two wave numbers) forcing functions in a three dimensional domain periodic in all directions. A comparative analysis between results given by the optimization problem and the results of Direct Numerical Simulations is performed. We report that the bound on the dissipation factor in the case of infinite Reynolds numbers have the same qualitative behavior as for the dissipation factor at finite Reynolds number. As predicted by the analysis, the dissipation factor depends strongly on the force shape. However, the optimization problem does not predict accurately the quantitative behavior. We complete our study by analyzing the mean flow profile in relation to the Stokes flow profile and the optimal multiplier profile shape for different force-shapes. We observe that in our 3D-periodic domain, the mean velocity profile and the Stokes flow profile reproduce all the characteristic features of the force-shape. The optimal multiplier proves to be linked to the intensity of the wave numbers of the forcing function.

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