Punctuated vortex coalescence and discrete scale invariance in two-dimensional turbulence

<a class="pub-badge pub-badge--doi" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00204-3" rel="nofollow">DOI 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00204-3</a><a class="pub-badge pub-badge--grey" href="https://zbmath.org/0974.76039" rel="nofollow">zbMATH</a><a class="pub-badge pub-badge--mardi" href="https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/wiki/Item:Q1581772" rel="nofollow">MaRDI QID Q1581772</a><a class="pub-badge pub-badge--grey" href="https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q1581772" rel="nofollow">FDO</a>

Authors A. Johansen, D. Sornette, Adam Espe Hansen

Publication date 8 October 2000

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902247

zbMATH Keywords

discrete time scale invariancefreely decaying two-dimensional turbulencelog-periodic oscillationsmerging of vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99)

Abstract: We present experimental evidence and theoretical arguments showing that the time-evolution of freely decaying 2-d turbulence is governed by a {it discrete} time scale invariance rather than a continuous time scale invariance. Physically, this reflects that the time-evolution of the merging of vortices is not smooth but punctuated, leading to a prefered scale factor and as a consequence to log-periodic oscillations. From a thorough analysis of freely decaying 2-d turbulence experiments, we show that the number of vortices, their radius and separation display log-periodic oscillations as a function of time with an average log-frequency of ~ 4-5 corresponding to a prefered scaling ratio of ~ 1.2-1.3

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