Possible implications of self-similarity for tornadogenesis and maintenance

DOI10.3934/Math.2018.3.365zbMath1427.86006arXiv1806.04505OpenAlexW2808382977MaRDI QIDQ2335282

Brittany Dahl, Mikhail M. Shvartsman, Corey K. Potvin, Douglas Paul Dokken, Pavel Bělík, Kurt Scholz

Publication date: 14 November 2019

Published in: AIMS Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04505

zbMATH Keywords

tornadovorticityself-similarityenergy spectrumfractal dimensionpower lawsfractalpseudovorticitytornadogenesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Fractals (28A80) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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• The nature of triad interactions in homogeneous turbulence
• From 2D to 3D in fluid turbulence: unexpected critical transitions
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• The swirling vortex

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