A stochastic view of isotropic turbulence decay

DOI10.1017/S0022112010005793MaRDI QIDQ3097686zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marcello Meldi, Didier Lucor, P. Sagaut

Publication date 10 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6214

zbMATH Keywords

isotropic turbulencegeneralized polynomial chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55)

Abstract: A stochastic EDQNM approach is used to investigate self-similar decaying isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds number ($400leqR{e}_{l}ambdaleq10^4$). The realistic energy spectrum functional form recently proposed by Meyers & Meneveau is generalised by considering some of the model constants as random parameters, since they escape measure in most experimental set-ups. The induced uncertainty on the solution is investigated building response surfaces for decay power-law exponents of usual physical quantities. Large-scale uncertainties are considered, the emphasis being put on Saffman and Batchelor turbulence. The sensitivity of the solution to initial spectrum uncertainties is quantified through probability density functions of the decay exponents. It is observed that initial spectrum shape at very large scales governs the long-time evolution, even at high Reynolds number, a parameter which is not explicitly taken into account in many theoretical works. Therefore, a universal asymptotic behavior in which kinetic energy decays as $t^{-1}$ is not detected. But this decay law is observed at finite Reynolds number with low probability for some initial conditions.

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