A closure model for intermittency in three-dimensional incompressible turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.868546MaRDI QIDQ4423922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piero Olla

Publication date 18 November 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9411018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55)

Abstract: A simplified Lagrangean closure for the Navier-Stokes equation is used to study the production of intermittency in the inertial range of three dimensional turbulence. This is done using localized wavepackets following the fluid rather than a standard Fourier basis. In this formulation, the equation for the energy transfer acquires a noise term coming from the fluctuations in the energy content of the different wavepackets. Assuming smallness of the intermittency correction to scaling allows the adoption of a quasi-gaussian approximation for the velocity field, provided a cutoff on small scales is imposed and a finite region of space is considered. In this approximations, the amplitude of the local energy transfer fluctuations, can be calculated self consistently in the model. Definite predictions are obtained on the scaling of the wavepacket energy moments.

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