Algebraic probability density tails in decaying isotropic two-dimensional turbulence

1996 ◽  
Vol 313 ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Jiménez

The p.d.f. of the velocity gradients in two-dimensional decaying isotropic turbulence is shown to approach a Cauchy distribution, with algebraic s−2 tails, as the flow becomes dominated by a large number of compact coherent vortices. The statistical argument is independent of the vortex structure, and depends only on general scaling properties. The same argument predicts a Gaussian p.d.f. for the velocity components. The convergence to these limits as a function of the number of vortices is analysed. It is found to be fast in the former case, but slow (logarithmic) in the latter, resulting in residual u−3 tails in all practical cases. The influence of a spread Gaussian vorticity distribution in the cores is estimated, and the relevant dimensionless parameter is identified as the area fraction covered by the cores. A comparison is made with the result of numerical simulations of two-dimensional decaying turbulence. The agreement of the p.d.f.s is excellent in the case of the gradients, and adequate in the case of the velocities. In the latter case the ratio between energy and enstrophy is computed, and agrees with the simulations. All the one-point statistics considered in this paper are consistent with a random arrangement of the vortex cores, with no evidence of energy screening.

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
M. S. I. Mallik ◽  
M. A. Uddin ◽  
M. A. Rahman

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) in two-dimensional homogeneous isotropic turbulence is performed by using the Spectral method at a Reynolds number Re = 1000 on a uniformly distributed grid points. The Reynolds number is low enough that the computational grid is capable of resolving all the possible turbulent scales. The statistical properties in the computed flow field show a good agreement with the qualitative behavior of decaying turbulence. The behavior of the flow structures in the computed flow field also follow the classical idea of the fluid flow in turbulence. Keywords: Direct numerical simulation, Isotropic turbulence, Spectral method. © 2013 JSR Publications. ISSN: 2070-0237 (Print); 2070-0245 (Online). All rights reserved. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v5i3.12665 J. Sci. Res. 5 (3), 435-445 (2013)  


2015 ◽  
Vol 767 ◽  
pp. 467-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Burgess ◽  
R. K. Scott ◽  
T. G. Shepherd

AbstractWe study the scaling properties and Kraichnan–Leith–Batchelor (KLB) theory of forced inverse cascades in generalized two-dimensional (2D) fluids (${\it\alpha}$-turbulence models) simulated at resolution $8192^{2}$. We consider ${\it\alpha}=1$ (surface quasigeostrophic flow), ${\it\alpha}=2$ (2D Euler flow) and ${\it\alpha}=3$. The forcing scale is well resolved, a direct cascade is present and there is no large-scale dissipation. Coherent vortices spanning a range of sizes, most larger than the forcing scale, are present for both ${\it\alpha}=1$ and ${\it\alpha}=2$. The active scalar field for ${\it\alpha}=3$ contains comparatively few and small vortices. The energy spectral slopes in the inverse cascade are steeper than the KLB prediction $-(7-{\it\alpha})/3$ in all three systems. Since we stop the simulations well before the cascades have reached the domain scale, vortex formation and spectral steepening are not due to condensation effects; nor are they caused by large-scale dissipation, which is absent. One- and two-point p.d.f.s, hyperflatness factors and structure functions indicate that the inverse cascades are intermittent and non-Gaussian over much of the inertial range for ${\it\alpha}=1$ and ${\it\alpha}=2$, while the ${\it\alpha}=3$ inverse cascade is much closer to Gaussian and non-intermittent. For ${\it\alpha}=3$ the steep spectrum is close to that associated with enstrophy equipartition. Continuous wavelet analysis shows approximate KLB scaling $\mathscr{E}(k)\propto k^{-2}~({\it\alpha}=1)$ and $\mathscr{E}(k)\propto k^{-5/3}~({\it\alpha}=2)$ in the interstitial regions between the coherent vortices. Our results demonstrate that coherent vortex formation (${\it\alpha}=1$ and ${\it\alpha}=2$) and non-realizability (${\it\alpha}=3$) cause 2D inverse cascades to deviate from the KLB predictions, but that the flow between the vortices exhibits KLB scaling and non-intermittent statistics for ${\it\alpha}=1$ and ${\it\alpha}=2$.


2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 531-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
GÁBOR HÁZI

Two-dimensional decaying turbulence is simulated using a lattice Boltzmann model with the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook collision operator. Auto-power spectra of the one-velocity particle distribution functions are presented. The relation between the spectrum of the kinetic energy and the spectra of the distribution functions is given. An interpretation of the non-equilibrium spectra as a measure of the dissipation in different scales is given. A peak in the spectrum of the resting particle distribution functions is observed exactly at the ultraviolet cutoff. It is shown that the peak can be associated with enhanced acoustic activity, which might be a numerical artifact or a consequence of the compressibility of the lattice Boltzmann fluid.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (19) ◽  
pp. 1950218
Author(s):  
Leonardo Campanelli

We study the scaling properties of two-dimensional turbulence using dimensional analysis. In particular, we consider the energy spectrum both at large and small scales and in the “inertial ranges” for the cases of freely decaying and forced turbulence. We also investigate the properties of an “energy condensate” at large scales in spatially finite systems. Finally, an analysis of a possible inverse cascade in freely decaying turbulence is presented.


1996 ◽  
Vol 326 ◽  
pp. 357-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bartello ◽  
Tom Warn

Simulations of decaying two-dimensional turbulence suggest that the one-point vorticity density has the self-similar form $P_\omega \sim t\;\;f(\omega t)$implied by Batchelor's (1969) similarity hypothesis, except in the tails. Specifically, similarity holds for |ω| < ωm, while pω falls off rapidly above. The upper bound of the similarity range, ωm, is also nearly conserved in high-Reynolds-number hyperviscosity simulations and appears to be related to the average amplitude of the most intense vortices (McWilliams 1990), which was an important ingredient in the vortex scaling theory of Carnevale et al. (1991).The universal function f also appears to be hyperbolic, i.e. $f(x) \sim c/2\vert x \vert^{1+q_c}$ for |x| > x*, where qc = 0.4 and x* = 70, which along with the truncated similarity form implies a phase transition in the vorticity moments $\langle \vert \omega\vert ^q\rangle \sim \left\{\begin{array}{ll} c_q t^{-q}, & -1 < q < q_c\cr c(q - q_c)^{-1} \omega _m^{q-q_c} t^{-q_c} & q > q_c, \end{array}\right.$ between the self-similar 'background sea' and the coherent vortices. Here Cq and c are universal. Low-order moments are therefore consistent with Batchelor's similarity hypothesis whereas high-order moments are similar to those predicted by Carnevale et al. (1991). A self-similar but less well-founded expression for the energy spectrum is also proposed.It is also argued that ωc = x*/t represents 'mean sea-level', i.e. the (average) threshold separating the vortices and the sea, and that there is a spectrum of vortices with amplitudes in the range (ωs,ωm). The total area occupied by vortices is also found to remain constant in time, with losses due to mergers of large-amplitude vortices being balanced by gains due to production of weak vortices. By contrast, the area occupied by vortices above afixed threshold decays in time as observed by McWilliams (1990).


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kotitschke ◽  
J. Scharrer

F.VIII R:Ag was determined by quantitative immunelectrophoresis (I.E.) with a prefabricated system. The prefabricated system consists of a monospecific f.VIII rabbit antiserum in agarose on a plastic plate for the one and two dimensional immunelectrophoresis. The lognormal distribution of the f.VIII R:Ag concentration in the normal population was confirmed (for n=70 the f.VIII R:Ag in % of normal is = 95.4 ± 31.9). Among the normal population there was no significant difference between blood donors (one blood donation in 8 weeks; for n=43 the f.VIII R:Ag in % of normal is = 95.9 ± 34.0) and non blood donors (n=27;f.VIII R:Ag = 94.6 ± 28.4 %). The f.VIII R:Ag concentration in acute hepatitis B ranged from normal to raised values (for n=10, a factor of 1.8 times of normal was found) and was normal again after health recovery (n=10, the factor was 1.0). in chronic hepatitis the f.VIII R:Ag concentration was raised in the majority of the cases (for n=10, the factor was 3.8). Out of 22 carrier sera 20 showed reduced, 2 elevated levels of the f.VIII R:Ag concentration. in 5 sera no f.VIII R:Ag could be demonstrated. The f.VIII R:Ag concentration was normal for n=10, reduced for n=20 and elevated for n=6 in non A-non B hepatitis (n=36). Contrary to results found in the literature no difference in the electrophoretic mobility of the f.VIII R:Ag was found between hepatitis patients sera and normal sera.


Author(s):  
Geoffrey Hellman ◽  
Stewart Shapiro

This chapter develops a Euclidean, two-dimensional, regions-based theory. As with the semi-Aristotelian account in Chapter 2, the goal here is to recover the now orthodox Dedekind–Cantor continuum on a point-free basis. The chapter derives the Archimedean property for a class of readily postulated orientations of certain special regions, what are called “generalized quadrilaterals” (intended as parallelograms), by which the entire space is covered. Then the chapter generalizes this to arbitrary orientations, and then establishes an isomorphism between the space and the usual point-based one. As in the one-dimensional case, this is done on the basis of axioms which contain no explicit “extremal clause”, and we have no axiom of induction other than ordinary numerical (mathematical) induction.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Pedro Pablo Ortega Palencia ◽  
Ruben Dario Ortiz Ortiz ◽  
Ana Magnolia Marin Ramirez

In this article, a simple expression for the center of mass of a system of material points in a two-dimensional surface of Gaussian constant negative curvature is given. By using the basic techniques of geometry, we obtained an expression in intrinsic coordinates, and we showed how this extends the definition for the Euclidean case. The argument is constructive and serves to define the center of mass of a system of particles on the one-dimensional hyperbolic sphere LR1.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoke Sen

Abstract In a recent paper, Balthazar, Rodriguez and Yin found remarkable agreement between the one instanton contribution to the scattering amplitudes of two dimensional string theory and those in the matrix model to the first subleading order. The comparison was carried out numerically by analytically continuing the external energies to imaginary values, since for real energies the string theory result diverges. We use insights from string field theory to give finite expressions for the string theory amplitudes for real energies. We also show analytically that the imaginary parts of the string theory amplitudes computed this way reproduce the full matrix model results for general scattering amplitudes involving multiple closed strings.


2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 341-358
Author(s):  
KRISHNA M. KAVI ◽  
DINESH P. MEHTA

This paper presents two algorithms for mutual exclusion on optical bus architectures including the folded one-dimensional bus, the one-dimensional array with pipelined buses (1D APPB), and the two-dimensional array with pipelined buses (2D APPB). The first algorithm guarantees mutual exclusion, while the second guarantees both mutual exclusion and fairness. Both algorithms exploit the predictability of propagation delays in optical buses.


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