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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
Volume 54, Issue 33, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac1484
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passive scalar; differential approximation; plasma turbulence; fluid turbulence
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The study of two-dimensional passive scalar turbulence using a k-space diffusion model based on a third order differential approximation provides general expressions for local nonlinear interactions in Fourier space. The steady state solutions recover Kraichnan-Kolmogorov phenomenology and various passive scalar spectra. Numerical solutions confirm the analytical results for energy and passive scalar injections and dissipations over a wide range of scales.
Two-dimensional passive scalar turbulence is studied by means of a k-space diffusion model based on a third order differential approximation. This simple description of local nonlinear interactions in Fourier space is shown to provide a general expression, in line with previous seminal works, and appears to be suitable for various 2D turbulence problems. Steady state solutions for the spectral energy density of the flow are shown to recover the Kraichnan-Kolmogorov phenomenology of the dual cascade, while various passive scalar spectra, such as Batchelor or Obukhov-Corssin spectra are recovered as steady state solutions of the spectral energy density of the passive scalar. These analytical results are then corroborated by numerical solutions of the time evolving problem with energy and passive scalar injection and dissipation on a logarithmic wavenumber space grid over a large range of scales. The particular power law spectra that are obtained are found to depend mainly on the location of the kinetic and passive scalar energy injections. In particular, it is shown that by injecting the energy simultaneously at large and small scales, wave number spectra consistent with those of Nastrom-Gage can be obtained.
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