Development of high vorticity structures in incompressible 3D Euler equations

DOI10.1063/1.4927680MaRDI QIDQ3456946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. S. Agafontsev, Alexei A. Mailybaev, E. A. Kuznetsov

Publication date 10 December 2015

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01562

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler equations (35Q31) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

Abstract: We perform the systematic numerical study of high vorticity structures that develop in the 3D incompressible Euler equations from generic large-scale initial conditions. We observe that a multitude of high vorticity structures appear in the form of thin vorticity sheets (pancakes). Our analysis reveals the self-similarity of the pancakes evolution, which is governed by two different exponents $e^{-t/T_{ell}}$ and $e^{t/T_{omega}}$ describing compression in the transverse direction and the vorticity growth respectively, with the universal ratio $T_{ell}/T_{omega}approx2/3$. We relate development of these structures to the gradual formation of the Kolmogorov energy spectrum $E_{k}propto,k^{-5/3}$, which we observe in a fully inviscid system. With the spectral analysis we demonstrate that the energy transfer to small scales is performed through the pancake structures, which accumulate in the Kolmogorov interval of scales and evolve according to the scaling law $omeg{a}_{max}proptoel{l}^{-2/3}$ for the local vorticity maximums $omeg{a}_{max}$ and the transverse pancake scales $ell$.

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