From a critical review of Onsager's pioneering paper which was published in 1949 we conclude that his analysis was at odds with other workers in the field because instead of taking the infinite Reynolds number limit he simply set the viscosity equal to zero which is not the same thing.
Using the unique capabilities of the Variable Density Turbulence Tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, we report experimental result on classical grid turbulence that uncover fine, yet important details of the structure functions in the inertial range. This was made possible by measuring extremely long time series of up to $10^{10}$ samples of the turbulent fluctuating velocity, which corresponds to $\mathcal{O}\left(10^5\right)$ large eddy turnover times. These classical grid measurements were conducted in a well-controlled environment at a wide ran…
In this work we address the open problem of high Reynolds number limit in hydrodynamic turbulence, which we modify by considering a vanishing random (instead of deterministic) viscosity. In this formulation, a small-scale noise propagates to large scales in an inverse cascade, which can be described using qualitative arguments of the Kolmogorov-Obukhov theory. We conjecture that the limit of the resulting probability distribution exists as $\mathrm{Re} \to \infty$, and the limiting flow at finite time remains stochastic even if forcing, initial and boundary conditions are deterministic. This c…
The decay of Kadomtsev - Petviashvili lumps is considered for a few typical dissipations - Rayleigh dissipation, Reynolds dissipation, Landau damping, Chezy bottom friction, viscous dissipation in the laminar boundary layer, and radiative losses caused by large-scale dispersion. It is shown that the straight-line motion of lumps is unstable under the influence of dissipation. The lump trajectories are calculated for two most typical models of dissipation - the Rayleigh and Reynolds dissipations. A comparison of analytical results obtained within the framework of asymptotic theory with the dire…
We consider the evolution equations for the bulk viscous pressure, diffusion current and shear tensor derived within second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics from kinetic theory. By matching the higher order moments directly to the dissipative quantities, all terms which are of second order in the Knudsen number Kn vanish, leaving only terms of order $\mathcal{O}(\textrm{Re}^{-1} \textrm{Kn})$ and $\mathcal{O}(\textrm{Re}^{-2})$ in the relaxation equations, where $\textrm{Re}^{-1}$ is the inverse Reynolds number. We therefore refer to this scheme as the Inverse-Reynolds-Dominance (I…
When the intensity of turbulence is increased (by increasing the Reynolds number, e.g. by reducing the viscosity of the fluid), the rate of the dissipation of kinetic energy decreases but does not tend asymptotically to zero: it levels off to a non-zero constant as smaller and smaller vortical flow structures are generated. This fundamental property, called the dissipation anomaly, is sometimes referred to as the zeroth law of turbulence. The question of what happens in the limit of vanishing viscosity (purely hypothetical in classical fluids) acquires a particular physical significance in the…
The condition of linear instability for a converging cylindrical strong shock wave (SW) in an arbitrary viscous medium is obtained in the limit of a large stationary SW radius, when it is possible to consider the same Rankine-Hugoniot jump relations as for the plane SW. This condition of instability is substantially different from the condition of instability for the plane SW because a cylindrical SW does not have chiral symmetry in the direction of the SW velocity (from left to right or vice versa) as in the case of a plane SW. The exponential growth rate of perturbations for the converging c…
We consider the hydrodynamic regime of a 2+1 dimensions QFT with the parity anomaly. Beyond the known constraints from positivity of entropy production, we show that the anomaly inflow mechanism, from a corresponding bulk SPT phase, together with thermodynamic consistency of equilibrium partition functions, restricts the form of non-dissipative transport coefficients. This included the known form of quantised Hall conductivity, which is fixed to be $σ_{xy} = e^2/2h$, along with new constraints on other three non-dissipative parity-odd transport coefficients.
Scaling and structural evolutions are contemplated in a new perspective for turbulent channel flows. The total integrated turbulence kinetic energy remains constant when normalized by the friction velocity squared, while the total dissipation increases linearly with respect to the Reynolds number. This serves as a global constraint on the turbulence structure. Motivated by the flux balances in the root turbulence variables, we also discover dissipative scaling for u2 and v2, respectively through its first and second gradients. This self-similarity allows for profile reconstructions at any Reyn…
We investigate aspects of low-magnetic-Reynolds-number flow between two parallel, perfectly insulating walls, in the presence of an imposed magnetic field parallel to the bounding walls. We find a functional basis to describe the flow, well adapted to the problem of finding the attractor dimension, and which is also used in subsequent direct numerical simulation of these flows. For given Reynolds and Hartmann numbers, we obtain an upper bound for the dimension of the attractor by means of known bounds on the nonlinear inertial term and this functional basis for the flow. Three distinct flow re…
Data-driven low-dimensional model for the onset of turbulence in plane Couette flow
Graduate School of Engineering Science, the University of Osaka(大阪大学工学研究科);Fluids Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman(菲律宾大学迪利曼分校机械工程系流体实验室)
We report on a investigation of turbulent bubbly flows. Bubbles of a size larger than the dissipative scale, cannot be treated as point-wise inclusions, and generate important hydrodynamic fields in the carrier fluid when in motion. Furthermore, when the volume fraction of bubbles is large enough, the bubble motion may induce a collective agitation due to hydrodynamic interactions which display some turbulent-like features. We tackle this complex phenomenon numerically, performing direct numerical simulations (DNS) with a Volume-of-fluid (VOF) method. In the first part of the work, we perform …
Passive scalars advected by three-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence exhibit a fundamental anomaly in odd-order moments because of the characteristic ramp-cliff structures, violating small-scale isotropy. We use data from direct numerical simulations with grid resolution of up to $8192^3$ at high Péclet numbers to understand this anomaly as the scalar diffusivity, $D$, diminishes, or as the Schmidt number, $Sc = ν/D$, increases; here $ν$ is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid. The microscale Reynolds number varies from 140 to 650 and $Sc$ varies from 1 to 512. A simple model for the ramp-cl…
Aligned superhydrophobic surfaces with the same texture orientation reduce drag in the channel and generate secondary flows transverse to the direction of the applied pressure gradient. Here we show that a transverse shear can be easily generated by using superhydrophobic channels with misaligned textured surfaces. We propose a general theoretical approach to quantify this transverse flow by introducing the concept of an effective shear tensor. To illustrate its use, we present approximate theoretical solutions and Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations for striped superhydrophobic channels…
In 1959, Batchelor predicted that the stationary statistics of passive scalars advected in fluids with small diffusivity $κ$ should display a $|k|^{-1}$ power spectrum along an inertial range contained in the viscous-convective range of the fluid model. This prediction has been extensively tested, both experimentally and numerically, and is a core prediction of passive scalar turbulence. In this article we provide a rigorous proof of a version of Batchelor's prediction in the $κ\to 0$ limit when the scalar is subjected to a spatially-smooth, white-in-time stochastic source and is advected by t…
We develop first-principles theory of relativistic fluid turbulence at high Reynolds and Péclet numbers. We follow an exact approach pioneered by Onsager, which we explain as a non-perturbative application of the principle of renormalization-group invariance. We obtain results very similar to those for non-relativistic turbulence, with hydrodynamic fields in the inertial-range described as distributional or "coarse-grained" solutions of the relativistic Euler equations. These solutions do not, however, satisfy the naive conservation-laws of smooth Euler solutions but are afflicted with dissipa…
Turbulent signals are known to exhibit burst-like activities, which affect the turbulence statistics at both large and small scales of the flow. In our study, we pursue this problem from the perspective of an event-based framework, where bursting events are studied across multiple scales in terms of both their size and duration. To illustrate our method and assess any dependence on the Reynolds number, we use two datasets - from the Melbourne wind tunnel and from SLTEST - an atmospheric surface layer experiment. We show that an index, namely the burstiness index, can be used successfully to de…
A defining feature of 3D hydrodynamic turbulence is that the rate of energy dissipation is bounded away from zero as viscosity is decreased (Reynolds number increased). This phenomenon - anomalous dissipation - is sometimes called the `zeroth law of turbulence' as it underpins many celebrated theoretical predictions. Another robust feature observed in turbulence is that velocity structure functions $S_p(\ell) :=\langle |δ_\ell u|^p\rangle$ exhibit persistent power-law scaling in the inertial range, namely $S_p(\ell) \sim |\ell|^{ζ_p}$ for exponents $ζ_p>0$ over an ever-increasing (with Reynold…