Electronic Resource
[S.l.]
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Physics of Fluids
12 (2000), S. 155-168
ISSN:
1089-7666
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The spectrum of a passive scalar field in the viscous-convective range convected by two-dimensional steady turbulence was studied using the Lagrangian Renormalized Approximation (LRA) and high resolution DNS with a resolution up to 40962. It was found that the scalar spectrum F(k) using the LRA scales as k−1 in the range, and decays Gaussianly in the far diffusive range, and these wavenumber dependencies in both ranges agree with the DNS data. A new Lagrangian closure approximation that is invariant under random Galilean transformation and random uniform rotation is proposed. The approximation makes better quantitative predictions than the LRA and yields F(k)=CVCχ¯(ν/ε¯)1/2k−1 with CVC=5.25 in the viscous-convective range, which is in good agreement with the DNS value CVC=5.11. The importance of molecular diffusion in the far diffusive range when the viscous-convective range exists is also discussed. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.870291
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