Algebro-geometric constructions of the modified Boussinesq flows and quasi-periodic solutions

The modified Boussinesq hierarchy associated with the 3×3 matrix spectral problem is derived with the help of Lenard recursion equations. Based on the characteristic polynomial of Lax matrix for the modified Boussinesq hierarchy, we introduce an algebraic curve K_m−1 of arithmetic genus m−1, from which we establish the associated Baker-Akhiezer function, meromorphic function and Dubrovin-type equations. The straightening out of various flows is exactly given through the Abel map. Using these results and the theory of algebraic curve, we obtain the explicit theta function representations of the Baker-Akhiezer function, the meromorphic function, and in particular, that of solutions for the entire modified Boussinesq hierarchy.     

Cumulative compressibility effects on slow reactive dynamics in turbulent flows

Reactions in turbulent flows, chemical reactions or combustion, are common. Typically reaction time scales are much shorter than turbulence timescales. In biological applications, as it is the case for bacterial and plankton populations living under the influence of currents in oceans and lakes, the typical lifetime can be long and thus can fall well within the inertial range of turbulence time scales. Under these conditions, turbulent transport interacts in a very complex way with the dynamics of growth and death of the individuals in the population. In the present paper, we quantitatively investigate the effect of the flow compressibility on the dynamics of populations. Small effective compressibility can be induced by several physical mechanisms, such as, e.g., by the density mismatch, by a small but finite size of microorganisms, and by gyrotaxis (an interaction between swimming and shear). We report, for the first time, how even a tiny effective compressibility can produce a dramatically large effect on global quantities like the carrying capacity of the ecosystem. We interpret our findings by means of a cumulative effect made possible by the long replication times of the organisms with respect to turbulence time scales. A statistical quantification of the fluctuations of population concentration is presented.     

Dynamics and structure of unstably stratified homogeneous turbulence

We characterise the properties of unstably stratified homogeneous turbulence by means of high-resolution direct numerical simulations and a two-point statistical spectral model based on a quasi-normal closure proposed by Burlot et al. Both approaches agree very well regarding the evolution of one- and two-point turbulent statistics, showing that the model is valid at even higher Reynolds numbers than previously considered. From a parametric study with different initial conditions, we confirm that the energy distribution at large scale influences strongly the late time dynamics of the flow. In particular, we assess the existence of backscatter transfer of energy, and evaluate its role in the growth rate of several turbulent quantities. Moreover, thanks to the statistical model, we analyse the scale-by-scale anisotropy of the flow through the decomposition of turbulent spectra in terms of directional anisotropy and polarisation anisotropy, for a refined characterisation of the structure of the flow which is strongly anisotropic in the large scales. This also allows us to study how isotropy is restored in the inertial scales.     

Asymptotics of unit Burger number rotating and stratified flows for small aspect ratio

Rotating and stably stratified Boussinesq flow is investigated for Burger number unity in domain aspect ratio (height/horizontal length) δ<1 and δ=1. To achieve Burger number unity, the non-dimensional rotation and stratification frequencies (Rossby and Froude numbers, respectively) are both set equal to a second small parameter ?<1. Non-dimensionalization of potential vorticity distinguishes contributions proportional to (?δ)⁻¹, δ⁻¹ and O(1). The (?δ)⁻¹ terms are the linear terms associated with the pseudo-potential vorticity of the quasi-geostrophic limit. For fixed δ=1/4 and a series of decreasing ?, numerical simulations are used to assess the importance of the δ⁻¹ contribution of potential vorticity to the potential enstrophy. The change in the energy spectral scalings is studied as ? is decreased. For intermediate values of ?, as the flow transitions to the (δ?)⁻¹ regime in potential vorticity, both the wave and vortical components of the energy spectrum undergo changes in their scaling behavior. For sufficiently small ?, the (δ?)⁻¹ contributions dominate the potential vorticity, and the vortical mode spectrum recovers k⁻³ quasi-geostrophic scaling. However, the wave mode spectrum shows scaling that is very different from the well-known k⁻¹ scaling observed for the same asymptotics at δ=1. Visualization of the wave component of the horizontal velocity at δ=1/4 reveals a tendency toward a layered structure while there is no evidence of layering in the δ=1 case. The investigation makes progress toward quantifying the effects of aspect ratio δ on the ?→0 asymptotics for the wave component of unit Burger number flows. At the lowest value of ?=0.002, it is shown that the horizontal kinetic energy spectral scalings are consistent with phenomenology that explains how linear potential vorticity constrains energy in the limit ?→0 for fixed δ.     

Evolution of an asymmetric turbulent shear layer in a thermocline

Large eddy simulations are used to examine the evolution of a shear layer in a thermocline with non-uniform density stratification. Unlike previous studies, the density in the present study is continuously stratified and has stratification in the upper half different from the lower half of the shear layer. The stratification in the upper half is fixed at J_u = 0.05, while the stratification in the lower half is increased to J_d = 0.05, 0.15, 0.25 and 0.35, leading to a progressively stronger asymmetry of the Ri_g profile in the four cases. Here, J is the bulk Richardson number and Ri_g is the gradient Richardson number. The type of shear instability and the properties of the ensuing turbulence are found to depend strongly on the degree of asymmetry in stratification. The shear instability changes from a Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) mode at J_d = 0.05 to a Holmboe (H) mode at J_d = 0.35 and exhibits characteristics of both KH and H modes at intermediate values of J_d. Differences in the evolution among the cases are quantified using density visualisations and statistics such as mean shear, mean stratification and turbulent kinetic energy.     

DNS of rotating and non-rotating turbulent flows with synthetic inlet conditions

In this paper, direct numerical simulations (DNS) are presented to understand the effects of the inlet conditions on the turbulent energy decay rate of isotropic turbulence. A perfect control of the inlet conditions cannot be achieved in realistic simulations reproducing the effects of a solid grid, which, on the other hand, is possible by adding to a uniform inlet velocity U ₀ analytical anisotropic single- or multiple-scale velocity disturbances. The single-scale simulations with different disturbances with a wave number κ show a scaling of the turbulent energy q versus x ₁/M with M=2π/κ. The energy decay rate m for multiple-scale disturbances is decreased compared to the case with single-scale disturbances. The transition from anisotropic to isotropic turbulence is analysed through the evolution of the statistics, in particular, those linked to the flow structures. Flow visualisations of the vorticity field and joint of the velocity components at different distances from the inlet illuminate the reasons for the differences between single- and multiple-scale disturbances. The reduction of m, for the latter, indicates the way to generate isotropic turbulence at high microscale R _λ. Simulations at different rates of solid-body rotation aligned with the streamwise direction were also performed for the flows with multiple- and single-scale disturbances. Variations of the rotation rate Ω allow to investigate the modifications of the vortical structures for single-scale disturbances. At N _Ω=2ΩL/U ₀=10, the comparison between single- and multiple-scale disturbances shows a further increase of R _λ in the latter flow. One-dimensional energy spectra at different distances from the inlet indicate when the effects of the inlet disturbances disappear. Good agreement, in the inertial and in the exponential decay ranges, between the present spectra and those from the DNS of forced isotropic turbulence demonstrates the quality of the numerical method used.     

Experimental measurement of wall shear stress in strongly disrupted flows

Mean and fluctuating wall shear stress is measured in strongly disrupted cases generated by various low-porosity wall-mounted single- and multi-scale fences. These grids generate a highly turbulent wake which interacts with the wall-bounded flow modifying the wall shear stress properties. Measurement methods are validated first against a naturally growing zero pressure gradient turbulent boundary layer showing accuracies of 1% and 4% for extrapolation and direct measurement of the mean shear stress respectively. Uncertainty associated with the root mean square level of the fluctuations is better than 2% making it possible to measure small variations originating from the different fences. Additionally, probability density functions and spectra are also measured providing further insight into the flow physics. Measurement of shear stress in the disrupted cases (grid+TBL) suggest that the flow characteristics and turbulence mechanisms remain unaltered far from the grid even in the most disrupted cases. However, a different root mean square level of the fluctuations is found for different grids. Study of the probability density functions seem to imply that there are different degrees of interaction between the inner and outer regions of the flow.     

Third-order statistics and the dynamics of strongly anisotropic turbulent flows

Anisotropy is induced by body forces and/or mean large-scale gradients in turbulent flows. For flows without energy production, the dynamics of second-order velocity or second-order vorticity statistics are essentially governed by triple correlations, which are at the origin of the anisotropy that penetrates towards the inertial range, deeply altering the cascade and the eventual dissipation process, with a series of consequences on the evolution of homogeneous turbulence statistics: in the case of rotating turbulence, the anisotropic spectral transfer slaves the multiscale anisotropic energy distribution; nonlinear dynamics are responsible for the linear growth in terms of Ωt of axial integral length-scales; third-order structure functions, derived from velocity triple correlations, exhibit a significant departure from the 4/5 Kolmogorov law. We describe all these implications in detail, starting from the dynamical equations of velocity statistics in Fourier space, which yield third-order correlations at three points (triads) and allow the explicit removal of pressure fluctuations. We first extend the formalism to anisotropic rotating turbulence with ‘production’, in the presence of mean velocity gradients in the rotating frame. Second, we compare the spectral approach at three points to the two-point approach directly performed in physical space, in which we consider the transport of the scalar second-order structure function ?(δq)²?. This calls into play componental third-order correlations ?(δq)²δu?(r) in axisymmetric turbulence. This permits to discuss inhomogeneous anisotropic effects from spatial decay, shear, or production, as in the central region of a rotating round jet. We show that the above-mentioned important statistical quantities can be estimated from experimental planar particle image velocimetry, and that explicit passage relations systematically exist between one- and two-point statistics in physical and spectral space for second-order tensors, but also sometimes for third-order tensors that are involved in the dynamics.     

Small-scale anisotropy induced by spectral forcing and by rotation in non-helical and helical turbulence

We study the effect of large-scale spectral forcing on the scale-dependent anisotropy of the velocity field in direct numerical simulations of homogeneous turbulence. ABC-type forcing and helical or non-helical Euler-type forcing are considered. We propose a scale-dependent characterisation of anisotropy based on a modal decomposition of the two-point velocity tensor spectrum. This produces direction-dependent spectra of energy, helicity and polarisation. We examine the conditions that allow anisotropy to develop in the small scales due to forcing and we show that the theoretically expected isotropy is not exactly obtained, even in the smallest scales, for ABC and helical Euler forcings. When adding rotation, the anisotropy level in ABC-forced simulations is similar to that of lower Rossby number Euler-forced runs. Moreover, even at low rotation rate, the natural anisotropy induced by the Coriolis force is visible at all scales, and two distinct wavenumber ranges appear from our fine-grained characterisation, not separated by the Zeman scale but by a scale where rotation and dissipation are balanced.     

Vertical rotation effect on turbulence characteristics in an open channel flow

This paper solves the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation by a fractional-step method with the Reynolds number Reτ=194 and the rotation number Nτ=0-0.12. When Nτ is less than 0.06, the turbulence statistics relevant to the spanwise velocity fluctuation are enhanced, but other statistics are suppressed. When Nτ is larger than 0.06, all the turbulence statistics decrease significantly. Reynolds stress budgets elucidate that turbulence kinetic energy in the vertical direction is transferred into the streamwise and spanwise directions. The flow structures exhibit that the bursting processes near the bottom wall are ejected toward the free surface. Evident change of near-surface streak structures of the velocity fluctuations are revealed.     

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基于Hasegawa-Wakatani湍流模型,数值模拟了托卡马克边缘等离子体中漂移波湍流和相关的反常粒子输运.从等离子体动量守恒方程出发导出了不采用常规的布辛涅斯克近似的带状流方程,论证了大振幅密度扰动和湍性粒子流对激发带状流的贡献可等效地对应于低阶负粘滞阻尼效果.数值模拟表明,大振幅密度扰动的非线性大大增强了带状流饱和振幅,从而有效抑制了湍性粒子输运.研究结果阐明了托卡马克边缘等离子体大振幅密度扰动的非线性对驱动等离子体旋转、动量输运和带状流的重要性.     

托卡马克边缘湍流中带状流的负粘滞阻尼

基于Hasegawa-Wakatani湍流模型,数值模拟了托卡马克边缘等离子体中漂移波湍流和相关的反常粒子输运。从等离子体动量守恒方程出发导出了不采用常规的布辛涅斯克近似的带状流方程,论证了大振幅密度扰动和湍性粒子流对激发带状流的贡献可等效地对应于低阶负粘滞阻尼效果。数值模拟表明,大振幅密度扰动的非线性大大增强了带状流饱和振幅,从而有效抑制了湍性粒子输运。研究结果阐明了托卡马克边缘等离子体大振幅密度扰动的非线性对驱动等离子体旋转、动量输运和带状流的重要性。     

The role of directionality on the structure and dynamics of strongly anisotropic turbulent flows

Strong anisotropy in turbulent flows may be induced by body forces, Coriolis, buoyancy, Lorentz, and/or by large-scale gradients. These effects combined to the redistribution pressure terms are first identified by an angle dependence of the wave vector in Fourier space, the directionality. The resulting anisotropic structure is not taken into account in classical phenomenological theory, using essentially ‘isotropised’ dimensional analysis. Besides, it is generally hidden in practical engineering models by means of tuned constants, which may vary if the flow changes of nature. In this paper, different examples of anisotropic turbulence are revisited and compared to each other in order to shed light on fundamental aspects of this specific turbulence. To begin with, flows without energy production like rotating turbulence are considered. In this case, isotropy is broken by mean of third-order correlations in the equations. These correlations quantify the interscale energy transfer, and must be investigated at three-point, or triad by triad in Fourier space. This allows to account for the role of typical anisotropic frequency 2Ωcos θ _k , with θ _k the angle of the wave vector to the axis of rotation, and to simultaneously restore the role of phase coherence. We pursue the discussion with a second flow case, with production, quasi-static magnetohydrodynamics. This illustrates turbulence forced towards two-dimensional structure by an explicit Ohmic dissipation term. Linear dynamics displays an angle (called Moreau, or Shebalin) capable of reflecting the basic anisotropy in models as simple as . In the final phase of transition towards 2D structure, however, dynamics are essentially driven by third-order velocity correlations, and both successive linear and nonlinear phases yield counter-intuitive anisotropic results. The last case considered here is the turbulent mixing induced by a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. It is shown that anisotropy plays a central role in the dynamics of the mixing zone by means of an angular dimensionality parameter similar to the Moreau angle but for the density field, and appearing in a global model of buoyancy-drag equation.     

Bulk heterogeneous plane waves propagation through viscoelastic plates and stratified media with large values of frequency domain

This paper introduces the bulk heterogeneous waves concept into the well known Thomson-Haskell method for computing transmission/reflection coefficients through stratified media. If one of the layers is absorbing, bulk heterogeneous waves are generated at interfaces with other layers and the generalized Snell's laws for heterogeneous modes have to be used. This method was reported to be unstable for large values of frequency domain (FD), the product of the frequency and the medium thickness. The new expression for the matrix transfer between interfaces given in this paper is tested with large values of FD, without showing instability. Large values of FD imply significant effects of attenuation, which is frequency dependent. One particular effect is the interface transmission of modes beyond the limit angle if it is defined with the homogeneous waves concept. This is shown with acquired and simulated waveforms, after transmission through an epoxy layer. Waveforms transmitted by adhesive joints are also presented.     

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采用流体模型理论推导了等熵平衡条件下环向转动托卡马克等离子体中带状流的色散关系。从理论上分析了环向转动对测地声模、低频带状流和声波的频率、压力和密度扰动量的影响。结果表明,环向转动对低频带状流的频率没有影响,但会使测地声模的频率逐渐增大。此外,存在环向转动时,低频带状流会具有驻波形式的压力和密度扰动量,且测地声模和声波可以沿着极向传播。而且还发现,等熵平衡可以看成是等温平衡的一种特殊情况。     

托卡马克等熵平衡条件下等离子体环向转动对带状流的影响

采用流体模型理论推导了等熵平衡条件下环向转动托卡马克等离子体中带状流的色散关系。从理论上分析了环向转动对测地声模、低频带状流和声波的频率、压力和密度扰动量的影响。结果表明,环向转动对低频带状流的频率没有影响,但会使测地声模的频率逐渐增大。此外,存在环向转动时,低频带状流会具有驻波形式的压力和密度扰动量,且测地声模和声波可以沿着极向传播。而且还发现,等熵平衡可以看成是等温平衡的一种特殊情况。