Vorticity alignment results for the three-dimensional Euler and Navier - Stokes equations

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/10/6/013zbMATH Open0912.76020arXivchao-dyn/9709003OpenAlexW3101923319MaRDI QIDQ3841237FDOQ3841237

M. Heritage, B. Galanti, John D. Gibbon

Publication date: 28 October 1998

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the problem in Navier-Stokes isotropic turbulence of why the vorticity accumulates on thin sets such as quasi-one-dimensional tubes and quasi-two-dimensional sheets. Taking our motivation from the work of Ashurst, Kerstein, Kerr and Gibson, who observed that the vorticity vector $$omega$$ aligns with the intermediate eigenvector of the strain matrix $S$, we study this problem in the context of both the three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations using the variables $$xi$$xi$$ and $$chi$$xi$$xi$$ where $$xi$$omega$$. This introduces the dynamic angle $phi(x,t)=arctan(fracchialpha)$, which lies between $$omega$$ and $$omega$$. For the Euler equations a closed set of differential equations for $alpha$ and $$chi$$ is derived in terms of the Hessian matrix of the pressure $P=p_{,ij}$. For the Navier-Stokes equations, the Burgers vortex and shear layer solutions turn out to be the Lagrangian fixed point solutions of the equivalent $$chi$$ equations with a corresponding angle $phi=0$. Under certain assumptions for more general flows it is shown that there is an attracting fixed point of the $$ equations which corresponds to positive vortex stretching and for which the cosine of the corresponding angle is close to unity. This indicates that near alignment is an attracting state of the system and is consistent with the formation of Burgers-like structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9709003

zbMATH Keywords

Hessian matrixBurgers vortexattracting fixed pointvorticity vectorBurgers-like structuresLagrangian fixed-point solutionspositive vortex stretchingquasi-one-dimensional tubesquasi-two-dimensional sheetsshear-layer solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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