Laminar-turbulent transition: the change of the flow state temperature with the Reynolds number

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-1112-XzbMATH Open1310.82038arXiv1404.0193OpenAlexW3101134138MaRDI QIDQ2254902FDOQ2254902

Authors: Sergei F. Chekmarev 

Publication date: 6 February 2015

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the previously developed model to describe laminar/turbulent states of a viscous fluid flow, which treats the flow as a collection of coherent structures of various size (Chekmarev, Chaos, 2013, 013144), the statistical temperature of the flow state is determined as a function of the Reynolds number. It is shown that at small Reynolds numbers, associated with laminar states, the temperature is positive, while at large Reynolds numbers, associated with turbulent states, it is negative. At intermediate Reynolds numbers, the temperature changes from positive to negative as the size of the coherent structures increases, similar to what was predicted by Onsager for a system of parallel point-vortices in an inviscid fluid. It is also shown that in the range of intermediate Reynolds numbers the temperature exhibits a power-law divergence characteristic of second-order phase transitions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0193

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zbMATH Keywords

fluid flowcritical phenomenalaminar-turbulent transitionstatistical modeltemperature of state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02)

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