How close are shell models to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations?

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ABE096zbMATH Open1489.76028arXiv2009.01583OpenAlexW3082185884MaRDI QIDQ5000673FDOQ5000673

John D. Gibbon, Dario Vincenzi

Publication date: 15 July 2021

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Shell models have found wide application in the study of hydrodynamic turbulence because they are easily solved numerically even at very large Reynolds numbers. Although bereft of spatial variation, they accurately reproduce the main statistical properties of fully-developed homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. Moreover, they enjoy regularity properties which still remain open for the three-dimensional (3D) Navier-Stokes equations (NSEs). The goal of this study is to make a rigorous comparison between shell models and the NSEs. It turns out that only the estimate of the mean energy dissipation rate is the same in both systems. The estimates of the velocity and its higher-order derivatives display a weaker Reynolds number dependence for shell models than for the 3D NSEs. Indeed, the velocity-derivative estimates for shell models are found to be equivalent to those corresponding to a velocity gradient averaged version of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations (VGA-NSEs), while the velocity estimates are even milder. Numerical simulations over a wide range of Reynolds numbers confirm the estimates for shell models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01583

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zbMATH Keywords

GOY shell modelSabra shell modeltime-averaged energy dissipation ratehigh-order velocity time derivative estimatestatistical turbulence modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55)

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