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Energy spectra power laws and structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2009

P. ORLANDI
P. ORLANDI*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Meccanica e Aeronautica, Università La Sapienza, Via Eudosiana 16, I-00184, Roma
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of two inviscid flows, the Taylor–Green flow and two orthogonal interacting Lamb dipoles, together with the DNS of forced isotropic turbulence, were performed to generate data for a comparative study. The isotropic turbulent field was considered after the transient and, in particular, when the velocity derivative skewness oscillates around −0.5. At this time, Rλ ≈ 257 and a one decade wide k−5/3 range was present in the energy spectrum. For the inviscid flows the fields were considered when a wide k−3 range was achieved. This power law spectral decay corresponds to infinite enstrophy and is considered one of the requirements to demonstrate that the Euler equations lead to a finite time singularity (FTS). Flow visualizations and statistics of the strain rate tensor and vorticity components in the principal axes of the strain rate tensor (λ, λ) were used to classify structures. The key role of the intermediate component 2 is demonstrated by its good correlation with enstrophy production. Filtering of the fields shows that the slope of the power law is directly connected to self-similar structures, whose radius of curvature is smaller the steeper the spectrum.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 623 , 25 March 2009 , pp. 353 - 374
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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