Enstrophy dissipation in freely evolving two-dimensional turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.2001687MaRDI QIDQ3555210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chuong V. Tran

Publication date 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0506049

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsvorticesboundary layer turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: Freely decaying two-dimensional Navier--Stokes turbulence is studied. The conservation of vorticity by advective nonlinearities renders a class of Casimirs that decays under viscous effects. A rigorous constraint on the palinstrophy production by nonlinear transfer is derived, and an upper bound for the enstrophy dissipation is obtained. This bound depends only on the decaying Casimirs, thus allowing the enstrophy dissipation to be bounded from above in terms of initial data of the flows. An upper bound for the enstrophy dissipation wavenumber is derived and the new result is compared with the classical dissipation wavenumber.

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