Exploring the turbulent velocity gradients at different scales from the perspective of the strain-rate eigenframe
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.960zbMATH Open1461.76195arXiv2005.04300OpenAlexW3120721334MaRDI QIDQ5145473FDOQ5145473
Josin Tom, Maurizio Carbone, Andrew D. Bragg
Publication date: 20 January 2021
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Expressing the evolution equations for the filtered velocity gradient tensor (FVGT) in the strain-rate eigenframe provides an insightful way to disentangle and understand various processes such as strain self-amplification, vortex stretching and tilting, and to consider their properties at different scales in the flow. Using data from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of the forced Navier-Stokes equation, we consider the relative importance of local and non-local terms in the FVGT eigenframe equations across the scales using statistical analysis. The analysis of the eigenframe rotation-rate, that drives vorticity tilting, shows that the anisotropic pressure Hessian plays a key role, with the sub-grid stress making an important contribution outside the dissipation range, and the local spinning due to vorticity making a much smaller contribution. The results also show the striking behavior that the vorticity tilting term remains highly intermittent even at relatively large scales. We derive a generalization of the Lumley triangle that allows us to show that the pressure Hessian has a preference for two-component axisymmetric configurations at small scales, with a transition to a more isotropic state at larger scales. Correlations between the sub-grid stress and other terms in the eigenframe equations are considered, highlighting the coupling between the sub-grid and nonlinear amplification terms, with the sub-grid term playing an important role in regularizing the system. These results provide useful guidelines for improving Lagrangian models of the FVGT, since current models fail to capture a number of subtle features observed in our results.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04300
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