Effects of forcing in three dimensional turbulent flows

dc.creatorBiferale, Luca
dc.creatorLanotte, Alessandra
dc.creatorToschi, Federico
dc.date2003-10-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:35:00Z
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dc.descriptionWe present the results of a numerical investigation of three-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, stirred by a random forcing with a power law spectrum, $E_f(k)\sim k^{3-y}$. Numerical simulations are performed at different resolutions up to $512^3$. We show that at varying the spectrum slope $y$, small-scale turbulent fluctuations change from a {\it forcing independent} to a {\it forcing dominated} statistics. We argue that the critical value separating the two behaviours, in three dimensions, is $y_c=4$. When the statistics is forcing dominated, for $y<y_c$, we find dimensional scaling, i.e. intermittency is vanishingly small. On the other hand, for $y>y_c$, we find the same anomalous scaling measured in flows forced only at large scales. We connect these results with the issue of {\it universality} in turbulent flows.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0310022
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0310022
dc.identifierPhysical Review Letters 92 (2004) 094503
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.094503
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/80580
dc.subjectChaotic Dynamics
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.subjectFluid Dynamics
dc.titleEffects of forcing in three dimensional turbulent flows
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