Free decay of turbulence and breakdown of self-similarity

DOI10.1063/1.870279zbMATH Open1149.76372arXivchao-dyn/9908006OpenAlexW2041278035MaRDI QIDQ3544065FDOQ3544065

Authors: David J. Thomson, Gregory Eyink 

Publication date: 5 December 2008

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

Abstract: It has been generally assumed, since the work of von Karman and Howarth in 1938, that free decay of fully-developed turbulence is self-similar. We present here a simple phenomenological model of the decay of 3D incompressible turbulence, which predicts breakdown of self-similarity for low-wavenumber spectral exponents $n$ in the range $n_c<n<4$, where $n_c$ is some threshold wavenumber. Calculations with the eddy-damped quasi-normal Markovian approximation give the value as $n_{c}approx3.45$. The energy spectrum for this range of exponents develops two length-scales, separating three distinct wavenumber ranges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9908006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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