Scaling of conditional Lagrangian time correlation functions of velocity and pressure gradient magnitudes in isotropic turbulence

DOI10.1007/S10494-010-9256-5zbMATH Open1414.76031arXiv0912.3493OpenAlexW2043467647MaRDI QIDQ605342FDOQ605342

Authors: Charles Meneveau, Huidan Yu 

Publication date: 23 November 2010

Published in: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Lagrangian statistics of the magnitudes of velocity and pressure gradients in isotropic turbulence by quantifying their correlation functions and their characteristic time scales. It has been found that the Lagrangian time-correlations of the velocity and pressure gradient tensor and vector elements scale with the locally-defined Kolmogorov time scale, defined from the box-averaged dissipation-rate and viscosity. In this work, we study the Lagrangian time-correlations of the absolute values of velocity and pressure gradients. We explore the appropriate temporal scales with the aim to achieve collapse of the correlation functions. The data used in this study are sampled from the web-services accessible public turbulence database(http://turbulence.pha.jhu.edu). The database archives a pseudo-spectral direct numerical simulation of forced isotropic turbulence with Taylor-scale Reynolds number 433, and supports spatial differentiation and spatial/temporal interpolation inside the database. The analysis shows that the temporal evolution of the auto-correlations of the absolute values are determined not by the local Kolmogorov time-scale but by the local eddy-turnover time scale. However, considerable scatter remains and appears to be reduced only after a further (intermittency) correction factor of the form of $(r/L{)}^{c}hi$ is introduced where $L$ is the turbulence integral scale. The exponent $chi$ varies for different variables. The collapse of the correlation functions for absolute values is, however, less satisfactory than the collapse observed for the more rapidly decaying strain-rate tensor element correlation functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3493

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zbMATH Keywords

direct numerical simulationisotropic turbulenceLagrangian statisticsrefined Kolomogorov similarity hypothesisturbulence database

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65)

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