Energy dissipation in the Smagorinsky model of turbulence

DOI10.1016/J.AML.2016.03.008zbMATH Open1381.35139arXiv1601.06635OpenAlexW2962766469MaRDI QIDQ285084FDOQ285084

Authors: William Layton 

Publication date: 18 May 2016

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Smagorinsky model, unmodified, is often reported to severely overdiffuse flows. Previous estimates of the energy dissipation rate of the Smagorinsky model for shear flows reflect a blow up of model energy dissipation as Re increases. This blow up is consistent with the numerical evidence and leads to the question: Is the over dissipation due to the influence of the turbulent viscosity in boundary layers alone or is its action on small scales generated by the nonlinearity through the cascade also a contributor? This report develops model dissipation estimates for body force driven flow under periodic boundary conditions (and thus only with nonlinearity generated small scales). It is proven that the model's time averaged energy dissipation rate satisfies the same upper bound as for the NSE plus one additional term that vanishes uniformly in the Reynolds number as the Smagorinsky length scale decreases. Since this estimate is consistent with that observed for the NSE, it establishes that, without boundary layers, the Smagorinsky model does not over dissipate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06635

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulenceenergy dissipation rateSmagorinsky model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02)

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