Non-local interactions in hydrodynamic turbulence at high Reynolds numbers: the slow emergence of scaling laws

Details Non-local interactions in hydrodynamic turbulence at high Reynolds numbers: the slow emergence of scaling laws Non-local interactions in hydrodynamic turbulence at high Reynolds numbers: the slow emergence of scaling laws

2007-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1939v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

8 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.036306

We analyze the data stemming from a forced incompressible hydrodynamic simulation on a grid of 2048^3 regularly spaced points, with a Taylor Reynolds number of Re~1300. The forcing is given by the Taylor-Green flow, which shares similarities with the flow in several laboratory experiments, and the computation is run for ten turnover times in the turbulent steady state. At this Reynolds number the anisotropic large scale flow pattern, the inertial range, the bottleneck, and the dissipative range are clearly visible, thus providing a good test case for the study of turbulence as it appears in nature. Triadic interactions, the locality of energy fluxes, and structure functions of the velocity increments are computed. A comparison with runs at lower Reynolds numbers is performed, and shows the emergence of scaling laws for the relative amplitude of local and non-local interactions in spectral space. The scalings of the Kolmogorov constant, and of skewness and flatness of velocity increments, performed as well and are consistent with previous experimental results. Furthermore, the accumulation of energy in the small-scales associated with the bottleneck seems to occur on a span of wavenumbers that is independent of the Reynolds number, possibly ruling out an inertial range explanation for it. Finally, intermittency exponents seem to depart from standard models at high Re, leaving the interpretation of intermittency an open problem.

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