The structure and the small-scale intermittency of passive scalars in homogeneous turbulence

DOI10.1007/BF02087964MaRDI QIDQ1908500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard S. Miller, Farhad A. Jaberi, C. K. Madnia, P. Givi

Publication date 4 July 1996

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02087964

zbMATH Keywords

approximate Gaussian distributionasymptotic statedirect numerical simulationsLangevin transport equationmean scalar gradientprobability density functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20)

Review text

Results generated by direct numerical simulations are used to study the structure and the small-scale intermittency of a passive scalar contaminant in a homogeneous turbulent shear flow. Simulations are conducted of flows with and without a constant mean scalar gradient. In all cases, the probability density functions of the scalars adopt an approximate Gaussian distribution at the final stages of mixing. In the presence of the mean gradient, the scalar fields yield a nearly identical asymptotic state independent of initial conditions.

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