Hydrodynamic Turbulence: Sweeping Effect and Taylor’s Hypothesis via Correlation Function

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 649-662 - 2020
Mahendra K. Verma1, Abhishek Kumar2, Akanksha Gupta1
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
2Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry, UK

Tóm tắt

We demonstrate the sweeping effect in turbulence using numerical simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence without a mean velocity. The velocity correlation function, $$C(\mathbf{k},\tau )$$ , decays with time due to the eddy viscosity. In addition, $$C(\mathbf{k},\tau )$$ shows oscillations due to the sweeping effect by “random mean velocity field” $${ \tilde{\mathbf{U}}}_0$$ . We also perform numerical simulation with mean velocity $$\mathbf{U}_0= 10\hat{z}$$ (10 times the rms speed) for which $$C(\mathbf{k},\tau )$$ exhibits damped oscillations with the frequency of $$|\mathbf{U}_0| k$$ and decay time scale corresponding to the $$\mathbf{U}_0=0$$ case. For $$\mathbf{U}_0=10\hat{z}$$ , the phase of $$C(\mathbf{k},\tau )$$ shows the sweeping effect, but it is overshadowed by oscillations caused by $$\mathbf{U}_0$$ . We also demonstrate that for $$\mathbf{U}_0=0$$ and $$10\hat{z}$$ , the frequency spectra of the velocity fields measured by real-space probes are respectively $$f^{-2}$$ and $$f^{-5/3}$$ ; these spectra are related to the Lagrangian and Eulerian space-time correlations respectively.

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