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arXiv 2004.06274physics.flu-dynphysics.comp-ph

Dissipation range of the energy spectrum in high Reynolds number turbulence

Dhawal Buaria, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

英文摘要:

We seek to understand the kinetic energy spectrum in the dissipation range of fully developed turbulence. The data are obtained by direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced Navier-Stokes equations in a periodic domain, for Taylor-scale Reynolds numbers up to $R_λ=650$, with excellent small-scale resolution of $k_{max}η\approx 6$ for all cases (and additionally at $R_λ=1300$ with $k_{max}η\approx3$), where $k_{max}$ is the maximum resolved wavenumber and $η$ is the Kolmogorov length scale. We find that, for a limited range of wavenumbers $k$ past the bottleneck in the range $0.1 \lesssim kη\lesssim0.5$, the spectra for all $R_λ$ display a universal stretched exponential behavior of the form $\exp(-k^{2/3})$, in rough accordance with recent theoretical predictions. The stretched exponential fit in the near dissipation range $1 \lesssim kη\lesssim 4$ does not possess a unique exponent, which decreases with increasing $R_λ$. This region can be regarded as a crossover between the stretched exponential behavior and the far dissipation range $kη> 6$, in which analytical arguments as well as DNS data with superfine resolution (S. Khurshid et al., Phys.~Rev.~Fluids 3, 082601, 2018) suggest a $\exp(-k)$ dependence. We remark on the connection to the multifractal model which hypothesizes a pseudo-algebraic law.

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