GEOMETRIC REALIZATION OF THE TWO-POINT VELOCITY CORRELATION TENSOR FOR ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE

A new geometric view of homogeneous isotropic turbulence is contemplated employing the two-point velocity correlation tensor of the velocity fluctuations. We show that this correlation tensor generates a family of pseudo-Riemannian metrics. This enables us to specify the geometry of a singled out Eulerian fluid volume in a statistical sense. We expose the relationship of some geometric constructions with statistical quantities arising in turbulence.     

湍流场中被动标量的细微结构

本文采用直接数值模拟方法,在具有平均标量梯度的各向同性湍流中,研究被动标量的小尺度结构特性及其与湍流场中应变与涡量的关系.对欧拉统计量及拉格朗日统计量的统计表明:标量耗散的形成主要是由于标量梯度同流场的应变张量压缩主轴耦合的结果,而涡量对标量梯度的形成只有较弱的影响,然而它可以间接影响大强度标量耗散的产生.强标量耗散的细微片状结构的形成时间尺度大约为10倍Kolmogrov时间尺度;在形成强标量梯度的细微片状结构过程中,应变强度随标量梯度同步增大,而涡量则先减小后增大,并在5倍Kolmogorov时间尺度时达到最大.     

Direct numerical simulation study of the interaction between the polymer effect and velocity gradient tensor in decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Direct numerical simulation of decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence (DHIT) of a polymer solution is performed. In order to understand the polymer effect on turbulence or additive-turbulence interaction, we directly investigate the influence of polymers on velocity gradient tensor including vorticity and strain. By visualizing vortex tubes and sheets, we observe a remarkable inhibition of vortex structures in an intermediate-scale field and a small-scale field but not for a large scale field in DHIT with polymers. The geometric study indicates a strong relevance among the vorticity vector, rate-of-strain tensor, and polymer conformation tensor. Joint probability density functions show that the polymer effect can increase "strain generation resistance" and "vorticity generation resistance", i.e., inhibit the generation of vortex sheets and tubes, ultimately leading to turbulence inhibition effects.     

对具有平均标量梯度的被动标量的直接模拟

采用直接数值模拟方法,对具有平均标量梯度的被动标量场在稳定、均匀各向同性湍流中的统计特性进行了研究(计算Reλ为25和48,Pr数从0.3到4.0)。模拟结果表明:标量的概率密度函数是高斯分布的;标量耗散率的概率分布是不对称性的,在它的左枝还存在明显的拖尾现象,并非对数正态分布;在Re数相同的情况下,随着Pr数的增加, 沿着平均标量梯度方向上的标量梯度其概率分布的偏斜度是减少的,反映出回归各向同性的趋势,而且在以涡量为条件的标量梯度的偏斜度变化曲线中发现涡量影响的饱和现象,我们认为这是由于涡量通过对标量场小尺度结构进行旋转作用来影响标量场的结果。     

A-priori testing of alpha regularisation models as subgrid-scale closures for large-eddy simulations

Alpha-type regularisation models provide theoretically attractive subgrid-scale closure approximations for large-eddy simulations of turbulent flow. We adopt the a-priori testing strategy to study three different alpha regularisation models, namely the Navier–Stokes-α model, the Leray-α model, and the Clark-α model. Specifically, we use high-resolution direct numerical simulation data of homogeneous isotropic turbulence to compute the mean subgrid-scale dissipation, the spatial distribution of the subgrid-scale dissipation, and the spatial distribution of elements of the subgrid-scale stress tensor. This is done for different filter parameters and different large-eddy simulation grid resolutions. Predictions of the three regularisation models are compared to the exact values of the subgrid-scale stress tensor, as defined in the filtered Navier–Stokes equations. The potential of the three regularisation models to provide good approximations is quantified using spatial correlation coefficients. Whereas the Clark-α model exhibits the highest spatial correlation coefficients for the subgrid-scale dissipation and the subgrid-scale stress tensor elements, the Leray-α model provides lower correlation coefficients, and the Navier–Stokes-α model exhibits the lowest correlation coefficients of the three models. Our results indicate the presence of an optimal choice of the filter parameter α depending on the large-eddy simulation grid resolution.     

Reassessment of the classical closures for scalar turbulence

In deducing the consequences of the Direct Interaction Approximation, Kraichnan was sometimes led to consider the properties of special classes of nonlinear interactions in degenerate triads in which one wavevector is very small. Such interactions can be described by simplified models closely related to elementary closures for homogeneous isotropic turbulence such as the Heisenberg and Leith models. These connections can be exploited to derive considerably improved versions of the Heisenberg and Leith models that are only slightly more complicated analytically. This paper applies this approach to derive some new simplified closure models for passive scalar advection and investigates the consistency of these models with fundamental properties of scalar turbulence. Whereas some properties, such as the existence of the Kolmogorov–Obukhov range and the existence of thermal equilibrium ensembles, follow the velocity case closely, phenomena special to the scalar case arise when the diffusive and viscous effects become important at different scales of motion. These include the Batchelor and Batchelor–Howells–Townsend ranges pertaining, respectively, to high and low molecular Schmidt number. We also consider the spectrum in the diffusive range that follows the Batchelor range. We conclude that improved elementary models can be made consistent with many nontrivial properties of scalar turbulence, but that such models have unavoidable limitations.     

三维均匀各向同性两相湍流的直接模拟

本文对三维气粒两相均匀各向同性湍流进行了直接数值模拟。气相控制方程组采用分布投影方法进行求解,微分方程采用六紧致阶差分格式和快速Fourier变换结合求解;计算颗粒场时,采用Lagrangian方法。由该方法得到的能谱和各统计量与由谱方法得到的对应值进行了比较,吻合十分理想,对不同Stocks数颗粒在流场内的瞬态分布也进行了初步模拟,并观察到局部富集现象,证明该方法是进行两相湍流直接数值模拟行之有效的方法。     

LAGRANGIANS FOR DISSIPATIVE NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS: THE METHOD OF JACOBI LAST MULTIPLIER

We present a method devised by Jacobi to derive Lagrangians of any second-order differential equation: it consists in finding a Jacobi Last Multiplier. We illustrate the easiness and the power of Jacobi's method by applying it to several equations, including a class of equations recently studied by Musielak with his own method [Z. E. Musielak, Standard and non-standard Lagrangians for dissipative dynamical systems with variable coefficients J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 055205], and in particular a Liènard type nonlinear oscillator and a second-order Riccati equation. Also, we derive more than one Lagrangian for each equation.     

Differential geometry of the Lie algebra of the quantum plane

We present a differential calculus on the extension of the quantum plane obtained by considering that the (bosonic) generator x is invertible and by working with polynomials in ln x instead of polynomials in x. We construct the quantum Lie algebra associated with this extension and obtain its Hopf algebra structure and its dual Hopf algebra.     

Comment: The Square of the Weyl Tensor Can Be Negative

We show that the square of the Weyl tensor can be negative by giving an example: