On an alternative explanation of anomalous scaling and how well-defined is the concept of inertial range

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.04.071MaRDI QIDQ662946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Kholmyansky, A. Tsinober

Publication date 13 February 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1356

zbMATH Keywords

ill-posednessanomalous scalinginertial rangestrong dissipative events

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

Abstract: The main point of this communication is that there is a small non-negligible amount of eddies-outliers/very strong events (comprising a significant subset of the tails of the PDF of velocity increments in the nominally-defined inertial range) for which viscosity/dissipation is of utmost importance at whatever high Reynolds number. These events contribute significantly to the values of higher-order structure functions and their anomalous scaling. Thus the anomalous scaling is not an attribute of the conventionally-defined inertial range, and the latter is not a well-defined concept. The claim above is supported by an analysis of high-Reynolds-number flows in which among other things it was possible to evaluate the instantaneous rate of energy dissipation.

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