Non-Fickian diffusion and tau approximation from numerical turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.1651480zbMATH Open1186.76074OpenAlexW2004710784MaRDI QIDQ3554335FDOQ3554335

Authors P. J. Käpylä, Amjed Mohammed, A. Brandenburg 

Publication date 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306521

zbMATH Keywords

approximation theoryturbulent diffusionflow simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: Evidence for non-Fickian diffusion of a passive scalar is presented using direct simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The results compare favorably with an explicitly time-dependent closure model based on the tau approximation. In the numerical experiments three different cases are considered: (i) zero mean concentration with finite initial concentration flux, (ii) an initial top hat profile for the concentration, and (iii) an imposed background concentration gradient. All cases agree in the resulting relaxation time in the tau approximation relating the triple correlation to the concentration flux. The first order smoothing approximation is shown to be inapplicable.

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