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arXiv 1211.3166physics.flu-dyn
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在没有强迫的情况下分层turbulence中螺旋度动力学

Helicity dynamics in stratified turbulence in the absence of forcing

C. Rorai, D. Rosenberg, A. Pouquet, P. D. Mininni

摘要:

对衰减稳定分层流进行了数值研究。被认为是相对较高的分层和中等雷诺数,并特别强调螺旋度(速度涡度相关性)的作用。该问题是通过集成Boussinesq方程在一个周期性的立方域使用不同的初始条件:一个非螺旋泰勒-格林(TG)流,一个完全螺旋贝尔特拉米(ABC)流,和随机流与可调螺旋度。我们表明,分层ABC流螺旋度经历了一个实质性的衰减比非分层ABC流。这一事实可能与层结和大尺度相干结构的综合作用有关。事实上,当后者缺失时,如在随机流中,螺旋度会被引力波的出现迅速破坏。一种类型的大规模耗散“旋”平衡可以用来解释这种行为。当螺旋度在系统中存在时,它强烈地影响能量的时间衰减和傅立叶模之间的能量分布。我们发现,事实上,分层的螺旋流的能量衰减率比分层的非螺旋流慢得多,可以考虑与一个唯象模型的方式类似的是什么做的非分层旋转流。我们还表明,螺旋度,当强,有一个可测量的影响傅立叶光谱,特别是在尺度大于浮力尺度,它显示了一个相当平坦的缩放与垂直剪切。

英文摘要:

A numerical study of decaying stably-stratified flows is performed. Relatively high stratification and moderate Reynolds numbers are considered, and a particular emphasis is placed on the role of helicity (velocity-vorticity correlations). The problem is tackled by integrating the Boussinesq equations in a periodic cubical domain using different initial conditions: a non-helical Taylor-Green (TG) flow, a fully helical Beltrami (ABC) flow, and random flows with a tunable helicity. We show that for stratified ABC flows helicity undergoes a substantially slower decay than for unstratified ABC flows. This fact is likely associated to the combined effect of stratification and large scale coherent structures. Indeed, when the latter are missing, as in random flows, helicity is rapidly destroyed by the onset of gravitational waves. A type of large-scale dissipative "cyclostrophic" balance can be invoked to explain this behavior. When helicity survives in the system it strongly affects the temporal energy decay and the energy distribution among Fourier modes. We discover in fact that the decay rate of energy for stratified helical flows is much slower than for stratified non-helical flows and can be considered with a phenomenological model in a way similar to what is done for unstratified rotating flows. We also show that helicity, when strong, has a measurable effect on the Fourier spectra, in particular at scales larger than the buoyancy scale for which it displays a rather flat scaling associated with vertical shear.

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