Rossby-number effects on columnar eddy formation and the energy dissipation law in homogeneous rotating turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.976zbMATH Open1460.76360arXiv1907.10133OpenAlexW3098985990WikidataQ126547594 ScholiaQ126547594MaRDI QIDQ5207669FDOQ5207669

Authors: T. Pestana, Stefan Hickel 

Publication date: 13 January 2020

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

Abstract: Two aspects of homogeneous rotating turbulence are quantified through forced Direct Numerical Simulations in an elongated domain, which is in the direction of rotation about $340$ times larger than the typical initial eddy size. First, by following the time evolution of the integral length-scale along the axis of rotation $el{l}_{|}$, the growth rate of the columnar eddies and its dependency on the Rossby number $R{o}_{varepsilon}$ is determined as $gamma=4exp(-17R{o}_{varepsilon})$, where $gamma$ is the non-dimensional growth rate. Second, a scaling law for the energy dissipation rate $varepsilon$ is sought. Comparison with current available scaling laws shows that the relation proposed by Baqui & Davidson (2015), i.e., $varepsilonsimu{\text{'}}^3/el{l}_{|}$, where $u^{\prime }s$ is the r.m.s. velocity, approximates well part of our data, more specifically the range $0.39leR{o}_{varepsilon}le1.54$. However, relations proposed in the literature fail to model the data for the second and most interesting range, i.e., $0.06leR{o}_{varepsilon}le0.31$, which is marked by the formation of columnar eddies. To find a similarity relation for the latter, we exploit the concept of a spectral transfer time introduced by Kraichnan (1965). Within this framework, the energy dissipation rate is considered to depend on both the non-linear time-scale and the relaxation time-scale. Thus, by analyzing our data, expressions for these different time-scales are obtained that results in~$$, where $$ is the integral length-scale in the direction normal to the axis of rotation and $a{u}_{nl}$ is the non-liner time-scale of the initial homogeneous isotropic field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10133

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zbMATH Keywords

rotating flowsatmospheric flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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