Beyond scaling and locality in turbulence

DOI10.1007/S10955-007-9322-0zbMATH Open1121.82026arXivnlin/0603070OpenAlexW3106300688MaRDI QIDQ2385200FDOQ2385200

Authors: A. Bershadskii 

Publication date: 11 October 2007

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

Abstract: An analytic perturbation theory is suggested in order to find finite-size corrections to the scaling power laws. In the frame of this theory it is shown that the first order finite-size correction to the scaling power laws has following form $S(r)congc{r}^{alph{a}_0}[ln(r/eta){]}^{alph{a}_1}$, where $eta$ is a finite-size scale (in particular for turbulence, it can be the Kolmogorov dissipation scale). Using data of laboratory experiments and numerical simulations it is shown shown that a degenerate case with $alph{a}_0=0$ can describe turbulence statistics in the near-dissipation range $r>eta$, where the ordinary (power-law) scaling does not apply. For moderate Reynolds numbers the degenerate scaling range covers almost the entire range of scales of velocity structure functions (the log-corrections apply to finite Reynolds number). Interplay between local and non-local regimes has been considered as a possible hydrodynamic mechanism providing the basis for the degenerate scaling of structure functions and extended self-similarity. These results have been also expanded on passive scalar mixing in turbulence. Overlapping phenomenon between local and non-local regimes and a relation between position of maximum of the generalized energy input rate and the actual crossover scale between these regimes are briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0603070

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zbMATH Keywords

analytic perturbation theoryfinite-size correctionsscaling power laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21)

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