Visibility network analysis of large-scale intermittency in convective surface layer turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.720zbMATH Open1500.76041arXiv2102.07102OpenAlexW3130338560MaRDI QIDQ4959249FDOQ4959249

Tirtha Banerjee, Subharthi Chowdhuri, Giovanni Iacobello

Publication date: 10 September 2021

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Large-scale intermittency is a widely observed phenomenon in convective surface layer turbulence that induces non-Gaussian temperature statistics, while such signature is not observed for velocity signals. Although approaches based on probability density functions have been used so far, those are not able to explain to what extent the signals' temporal structure impacts the statistical characteristics of the velocity and temperature fluctuations. To tackle this issue, a visibility network analysis is carried out on a field-experimental dataset from a convective atmospheric surface layer flow. Through surrogate data and network-based measures, we demonstrate that the temperature intermittency is related to strong non-linear dependencies in the temperature signals. Conversely, a competition between linear and non-linear effects tends to inhibit the temperature-like intermittency behaviour in streamwise and vertical velocities. Based on present findings, new research avenues are likely to be opened up in studying large-scale intermittency in convective turbulence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07102

zbMATH Keywords

probability density functionatmospheric flowtemperature signalnon-Gaussian temperature statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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