Dimensional analysis and weak turbulence
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Publication:1407917
DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(03)00214-8zbMATH Open1098.76513arXivphysics/0304077MaRDI QIDQ1407917FDOQ1407917
Authors: Colm Connaughton, Alan C. Newell, Sergey Nazarenko 
Publication date: 21 September 2003
Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In the study of weakly turbulent wave systems possessing incomplete self-similarity it is possible to use dimensional arguments to derive the scaling exponents of the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra, provided the order of the resonant wave interactions responsible for nonlinear energy transfer is known. Furthermore one can easily derive conditions for the breakdown of the weak turbulence approximation. It is found that for incompletely self-similar systems dominated by three wave interactions, the weak turbulence approximation usually cannot break down at small scales. It follows that such systems cannot exhibit small scale intermittency. For systems dominated by four wave interactions, the incomplete self-similarity property implies that the scaling of the interaction coefficient depends only on the physical dimension of the system. These results are used to build a complete picture of the scaling properties of the surface wave problem where both gravity and surface tension play a role. We argue that, for large values of the energy flux, there should be two weakly turbulent scaling regions matched together via a region of strongly nonlinear turbulence.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0304077
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Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Turbulence (76F99)
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