Turbulence: does energy cascade exist?

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1642-5MaRDI QIDQ2401458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martine Le Berre, Thierry Lehner, C. Josserand, Yves Pomeau

Publication date 8 September 2017

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00455

zbMATH Keywords

turbulenceirreversibilityout of equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02)

Abstract: To answer the question whether a cascade of energy exists or not in turbulence, we propose a set of correlation functions able to test if there is an irreversible transfert of energy, step by step, from large to small structures. These tests are applied to real Eulerian data of a turbulent velocity flow, taken in the wind grid tunnel of Modane, and also to a prototype model equation for wave turbulence. First we demonstrate the irreversible character of the flow by using multi-time correlation function at a given point of space. Moreover the unexpected behavior of the test function leads us to connect irreversibility and finite time singularities (intermittency). Secondly we show that turbulent cascade exists, and is a dynamical process, by using a test function depending on time and frequency. The cascade shows up only in the inertial domain where the kinetic energy is transferred more rapidly (on average) from the wavenumber $k_1$ to $k_2$ than from $k_1$ to $k{\text{'}}_2$ larger than $k_2$.

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