Coarse-grained description of a passive scalar

DOI10.1080/14685240600779388zbMATH Open1273.76186arXivnlin/0602061OpenAlexW3101954753MaRDI QIDQ2853780FDOQ2853780

Authors: A. Celani, Marco Martins Afonso, Andrea Mazzino 

Publication date: 17 October 2013

Published in: Journal of Turbulence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The issue of the parameterization of small-scale dynamics is addressed in the context of passive-scalar turbulence. The basic idea of our strategy is to identify dynamical equations for the coarse-grained scalar dynamics starting from closed equations for two-point statistical indicators. With the aim of performing a fully-analytical study, the Kraichnan advection model is considered. The white-in-time character of the latter model indeed leads to closed equations for the equal-time scalar correlation functions. The classical closure problem however still arises if a standard filtering procedure is applied to those equations in the spirit of the large-eddy-simulation strategy. We show both how to perform exact closures and how to identify the corresponding coarse-grained scalar evolution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0602061

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65)

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