Hyperviscosity, Galerkin truncation and bottlenecks in turbulence

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.101.144501arXiv0803.4269WikidataQ51866812 ScholiaQ51866812MaRDI QIDQ6208941FDOQ6208941

Susan Kurien, Rahul Pandit, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Walter Pauls, Jian-Zhou Zhu, Achim Wirth, Uriel Frisch

Publication date: 29 March 2008

Abstract: It is shown that the use of a high power $alpha$ of the Laplacian in the dissipative term of hydrodynamical equations leads asymptotically to truncated inviscid extit{conservative} dynamics with a finite range of spatial Fourier modes. Those at large wavenumbers thermalize, whereas modes at small wavenumbers obey ordinary viscous dynamics [C. Cichowlas et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264502 (2005)]. The energy bottleneck observed for finite $alpha$ may be interpreted as incomplete thermalization. Artifacts arising from models with $alpha>1$ are discussed.

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