Direct control of the small-scale energy balance in two-dimensional fluid dynamics

DOI10.1017/JFM.2015.526zbMATH Open1381.86019arXiv1412.6276OpenAlexW3105809711MaRDI QIDQ2807135FDOQ2807135

Authors: Jason Frank, Keith W. Myerscough, Benedict Leimkuhler 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the direct modification of the pseudo-spectral truncation of 2D, incompressible fluid dynamics to maintain a prescribed kinetic energy spectrum. The method provides a means of simulating fluid states with defined spectral properties, for the purpose of matching simulation statistics to given information, arising from observations, theoretical prediction or high fidelity simulation. In the scheme outlined here, Nos'e-Hoover thermostats, commonly used in molecular dynamics, are introduced as feedback controls applied to energy shells of the Fourier-discretized Navier-Stokes equations. As we demonstrate in numerical experiments, the dynamical properties (quantified using autocorrelation functions) are only modestly perturbed by our device, while ensemble dispersion is significantly enhanced in comparison with simulations of a corresponding truncation incorporating hyperviscosity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6276

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zbMATH Keywords

computational methodshomogeneous turbulenceatmospheric flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Flow control and optimization for incompressible viscous fluids (76D55) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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