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FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION
Volume 76, Issue 4, Pages 419-427Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-006-9029-3
Keywords
tturbulence; rotation; stratification; coherent structures
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Rotating and stably stratified turbulence exhibit not only significant anisotropies but also dynamics, which are qualitatively different from purely rotating or stratified turbulence. Furthermore, the different time scales due to rotation, stratification and the turbulence one open up a wide field of possibilities for the temporal evolution of rotating and stratified turbulence. We analyze results from DNS with different parameters alpha = f/N by visualizing iso-enstrophy surfaces, the temporal evolution of velocity correlation length scales and angular energy spectra. We retrieve standard results, such as a large anisotropy for small scales in rotating turbulence and a large anisotropy for intermediate scales in the vortex mode of stratified turbulence. Furthermore, at large times we find qualitatively different phenomena for cases alpha = 10 and alpha = 0.1 such as modified cascades due to the existence of potential energy or small scale vorticity production respectively.
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