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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 126, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.034504
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- Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- OLCF under INCITE Awards
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ACI-1036170]
- NSF [OCI-725070, ACI-1238993]
- State of Illinois
Passive scalars advected by three-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence exhibit a fundamental anomaly in odd-order moments due to characteristic ramp-cliff structures that violate small-scale isotropy. By developing a simple model, it is demonstrated how small-scale isotropy is restored in the large Schmidt number limit, suggesting a possible correction to the Batchelor length scale in the scalar field.
Passive scalars advected by three-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence exhibit a fundamental anomaly in odd-order moments because of the characteristic ramp-cliff structures, violating small-scale isotropy. We use data from direct numerical simulations with grid resolution of up to 8192(3) at high Peclet numbers to understand this anomaly as the scalar diffusivity, D, diminishes, or as the Schmidt number, Sc = v/D, increases; here I. is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid. The microscale Reynolds number varies from 140 to 650 and Sc varies from 1 to 512. A simple model for the ramp-cliff structures is developed and shown to characterize the scalar derivative statistics very well. It accurately captures how the small-scale isotropy is restored in the large-Sc limit, and additionally suggests a possible correction to the Batchelor length scale as the relevant smallest scale in the scalar field.
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