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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 11, Pages 2385-2388Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2385
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The statistical properties of a scalar field advected by the nonintermittent Navier-Stokes flow arising from a two-dimensional inverse energy cascade are investigated. The universality properties of the scalar field are probed by comparing the results obtained with two types of injection mechanisms. Scaling properties are shown to be universal, even though anisotropies injected at large scales persist down to the smallest scales and local isotropy is not fully restored. Scalar statistics is strongly intermittent and scaling exponents saturate to a constant for sufficiently high orders. This is observed also for the advection by a velocity field rapidly changing in time, pointing to the genericity of the phenomenon.
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