Kinetic Theory of Turbulence Modeling: Smallness Parameter, Scaling and Microscopic Derivation of Smagorinsky Model

Ansumali, Santosh; Karlin, Iliya V.; Succi, Sauro

Kinetic Theory of Turbulence Modeling: Smallness Parameter, Scaling and Microscopic Derivation of Smagorinsky Model

Authors

Ansumali, Santosh

Karlin, Iliya V.

Succi, Sauro

Description

A mean-field approach (filtering out subgrid scales) is applied to the Boltzmann equation in order to derive a subgrid turbulence model based on kinetic theory. It is demonstrated that the only Smagorinsky type model which survives in the hydrodynamic limit on the viscosity time scale is the so-called tensor-diffusivity model. Scaling of the filter-width with Reynolds number and Knudsen number is established. This sets the first rigorous step in deriving turbulence models from kinetic theory.
18 pages, Minor corrections, Accepted in Physica A