Space-Time Localization of a Class of Geometric Criteria for Preventing Blow-up in the 3D NSE

A class of local (in the space-time) conditions on the vorticity directions implying local regularity of weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations is established. In all the preceding results, the relevant geometric conditions, although being local in nature, have been assumed uniformly throughout the spatial regions of high vorticity magnitude, and uniformly in time. In addition, similar results are obtained assuming a less restrictive integral condition on the vorticity directions.     

On Vorticity Directions near Singularities for the Navier-Stokes Flows with Infinite Energy

We give a geometric nonblow-up criterion on the direction of the vorticity for the three dimensional Navier-Stokes flow whose initial data is just bounded and may have infinite energy. We prove that under a restriction on behavior in time (type I condition) the solution does not blow up if the vorticity direction is uniformly continuous at the place where the vorticity magnitude is large. This improves the regularity condition for the vorticity direction first introduced by P. Constantin and C. Fefferman (1993) for finite energy weak solution. Our method is based on a simple blow-up argument which says that the situation looks like two-dimensional under continuity of the vorticity direction. We also discuss boundary value problems.     

Localization of Analytic Regularity Criteria on the Vorticity and Balance Between the Vorticity Magnitude and Coherence of the Vorticity Direction in the 3D NSE

The first part of the paper provides spatio-temporal localization of a family of analytic regularity classes for the 3D NSE obtained by Beirao Da Veiga (space-time integrability of the gradient of the velocity on \mathbbR³ ×(0,T){\mathbb{R}^3 \times (0,T)} which is out of the range of the Sobolev embedding theorem reduction to the classical Foias-Ladyzhenskaya-Prodi-Serrin space-time integrability conditions on the velocity) as well as the localization of the Beale-Kato-Majda regularity criterion (time integrability of the L ^∞-norm of the vorticity). The second part introduces a family of local, scaling invariant, hybrid geometric-analytic classes in which coherence of the vorticity direction serves as a weight in the local spatio-temporal integrability of the vorticity magnitude.     

Remarks on the breakdown of smooth solutions for the 3-D Euler equations

The authors prove that the maximum norm of the vorticity controls the breakdown of smooth solutions of the 3-D Euler equations. In other words, if a solution of the Euler equations is initially smooth and loses its regularity at some later time, then the maximum vorticity necessarily grows without bound as the critical time approaches; equivalently, if the vorticity remains bounded, a smooth solution persists.Partially supported by O.N.R. Contract No. N00014-76-C-0316 and N.S.F. Grant No. MCS-81-01639Partially supported by N.S.F. Grant No. MCS-82-00171Partially supported by N.S.F. Grant No. MCS-81-02360     

Capillary–Gravity Water Waves with Discontinuous Vorticity: Existence and Regularity Results

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity–gravity water waves with an arbitrary bounded vorticity distribution. This is achieved by re-expressing, in the height function formulation of the water wave problem, the boundary condition obtained from Bernoulli’s principle as a nonlocal differential equation. This enables us to establish the existence of weak solutions of the problem by using elliptic estimates and bifurcation theory. Secondly, we investigate the a priori regularity of these weak solutions and prove that they are in fact strong solutions of the problem, describing waves with a real-analytic free surface. Moreover, assuming merely integrability of the vorticity function, we show that any weak solution corresponds to flows having real-analytic streamlines.     

Negative-temperature states and large-scale,long-lived vortices in two-dimensional turbulence

We study Onsager's theory of large, coherent vortices in turbulent flows in the approximation of the point-vortex model for two-dimensional Euler hydrodynamics. In the limit of a large number of point vortices with the energy perpair of vortices held fixed, we prove that the entropy defined from the microcanonical distribution as a function of the (pair-specific) energy has its maximum at a finite value and thereafter decreases, yielding the negative-temperature states predicted by Onsager. We furthermore show that the equilibrium vorticity distribution maximizes an appropriate entropy functional subject to the constraint of fixed energy, and, under regularity assumptions, obeys the Joyce-Montgomery mean-field equation. We also prove that, under appropriate conditions, the vorticity distribution is the same as that for the canonical distribution, a form of equivalence of ensembles. We establish a large-fluctuation theory for the microcanonical distributions, which is based on a level-3 large-deviations theory for exchangeable distributions. We discuss some implications of that property for the ergodicity requirements to justify Onsager's theory, and also the theoretical foundations of a recent extension to continuous vorticity fields by R. Robert and J. Miller. Although the theory of two-dimensional vortices is of primary interest, our proofs actually apply to a very general class of mean-field models with long-range interactions in arbitrary dimensions.     

斜激波与轴对称边界层干扰的数值模拟

使用两方程Menter-SST模型,对来流Mach数为3时的斜激波与轴对称边界层的相互干扰现象进行了数值模拟与定性、定量分析。研究了斜楔激波发生器楔角和来流单位Reynolds数变化对干扰区流动的影响,总结了参数变化引起的流动分离变化规律;此外,还计算了与三维计算中心对称面上的入射激波等效的二维情形,并将三维结果与二维情形进行对比,对比结果显示中心对称面上的壁面压力系数、分离涡尺寸、涡量分布等与相应的二维情形存在明显差异。     

Vortex shedding and vorticity fluxes in the wake of cylinders within a random array

This work investigates the impact of the background turbulence generated by randomly placed cylinders on the vortex shedding regime and the mechanisms associated to vorticity fluxes. The goals are achieved by exploring velocity databases acquired with a two-dimensional particle image velocimetry system in two types of turbulent flow experiments: flow around a single infinite cylinder and flow within random array of infinite cylinders. Formation lengths, power spectral density functions and vortex distributions are employed to discuss the vortex shedding regime. The effects of background turbulence and vorticity cancellation, due to opposite sign vorticity, on the vorticity fluxes are discussed. The results show that the background turbulence reduces the formation length and consequently increase the shedding frequency. The stronger decay of longitudinal vorticity flux in denser arrays is not accompanied by an increase of the lateral flux of vorticity. Furthermore, it was concluded that the decay of longitudinal vorticity flux is mainly caused by the vorticity cancellation due to the vorticity of opposite sign of close downstream cylinders.     

Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional enstrophy cascade

In two-dimensional turbulence, irreversible forward transfer of enstrophy requires anticorrelation of the turbulent vorticity transport vector and the inertial-range vorticity gradient. We investigate the basic mechanism by numerical simulation of the forced Navier-Stokes equation. In particular, we obtain the probability distributions of the local enstrophy flux and of the alignment angle between vorticity gradient and transport vector. These are surprisingly symmetric and cannot be explained by a local eddy-viscosity approximation. The vorticity transport tends to be directed along streamlines of the flow and only weakly aligned down the fluctuating vorticity gradient. All these features are well explained by a local nonlinear model. The physical origin of the cascade lies in steepening of inertial-range vorticity gradients due to compression of vorticity level sets by the large-scale strain field.     

A new kind of hairpin-like vortical structure induced by cross-interaction of sinuous streaks in turbulent channel

This work is motivated by previous experimental and numerical studies which reveal that the hairpin vortex could be formed by the interaction between spanwise adjacent low-speed streaks. To prove that such an interaction mechanism is still applicable in the normal direction, two sinuous low-speed streaks with the same streamwise phase are set to be in the upper half and bottom half of a small size channel, respectively, and their evolution and interaction are investigated by direct numerical simulation. A new kind of hairpin-like vortical structure, distributed in the normal direction and straddled across both halves of the channel, is found during the cross-interaction process of the low-speed streaks. The influence of such a normal-distributed hairpin-like vortex(NHV) on the turbulent statistical regularity is also revealed. It is observed that the NHV can lead to a sudden surge of wall skin friction, but the value of the normal velocity as well as the streamwise and spanwise vorticity sharply decrease to zero in the center of the channel.     

平流涡度方程及其在2006年Bilis台风分析中的应用

推导得到气压坐标中的动量叉乘形式的垂直涡度方程,这个动量叉乘形式的涡度方程包含了水平风的平流旋转效应,可称为平流涡度方程.由于水平风场的平流作用可由等压面天气图直观分析得到,因此平流涡度方程可方便用于实际天气分析.对2006年的Bilis台风移动过程中由经典涡度方程和平流涡度方程计算得到的垂直涡度倾向进行对比分析发现,二者计算得到的垂直涡度倾向变化的分布形式接近,但平流涡度方程计算得到的倾向的数值明显大于经典涡度方程的数值,正负涡度倾向区也更集中.对Bilis移动过程中的垂直涡度方程和平流涡度方程中各项的计算分析表明,水平风场的平流旋转作用是Bilis发展移动过程中垂直涡度变化的一个主要因素,是造成垂直涡度增强并发展的主要原因.因此,当水平风场平流旋转效应较强时,平流作用对垂直涡度倾向变化起主导作用,可直接用平流项来近似分析Bilis台风的涡度变化.而平流涡度方程中地转涡度和散度项的变化趋势与Bilis台风的移动路径有较好的一致性,这一项对台风的移动路径预报有更好的指示意义.     

A phase analysis of vorticity vectors associated with tropical convection

Three new vorticity vectors have been proposed by Gao et al to study the two-dimensional tropical convection. In the present paper, phase relations between surface rain rate and the vorticity vectors are analysed with the calculations of lag correlation coefficients based on hourly zonally-averaged mass-integrated cloud-resolving simulation data. The cloud-resolving model is integrated with the vertical velocity, zonal wind, horizontal thermal and moisture advections, and sea surface temperature observed and derived from tropical ocean global atmosphere - coupled ocean atmosphere response experiment （TOGA-COARE） for 10 days. Maximum local increase of the vertical component of the convective vorticity vector leads maximum surface rain rate by 2 hours mainly due to the interaction between vorticity and zonal gradient of ice heating. While maximum local increase of the vertical component of the moist vorticity vector leads maxfinum surface rain rate by 2 hours mainly because of the interaction between zonal specific humidity gradient and zonal buoyancy gradient. And the maximum local decrease of the zonal component of the dynamic vorticity vector leads maximum surface rain rate by 2 hours mainly due to the interactions between vorticity and vertical pressure gradient as well as vorticity and buoyancy.     

Fluid-magnetic helicity in axisymmetric stationary relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

The present work is intended to gain a fruitful insight into the understanding of the formations of magneto-vortex configurations and their role in the physical processes of mutual exchange of energies associated with fluid’s motion and the magnetic fields in an axisymmetric stationary hydromagnetic system subject to strong gravitational field (e.g., neutron star/magnetar). It is found that the vorticity flux vector field associated with vorticity 2-form is a linear combination of fluid’s vorticity vector and of magnetic vorticity vector. The vorticity flux vector obeys Helmholtz’s flux conservation. The energy equation associated with the vorticity flux vector field is deduced. It is shown that the mechanical rotation of vorticity flux surfaces contributes to the formation of vorticity flux vector field. The dynamo action for the generation of toroidal components of vorticity flux vector field is described in the presence of meridional circulations. It is shown that the stretching of twisting magnetic lines due to differential rotation leads to the breakdown of gravitational isorotation in the absence of meridional circulations. An explicit expression consists of rotation of vorticity flux surface, energy and angular momentum per baryon for the fluid-magnetic helicity current vector is obtained. The conservation of fluid-magnetic helicity is demonstrated. It is found that the fluid-magnetic helicity displays the energy spectrum arising due to the interaction between the mechanical rotation of vorticity flux surfaces and the fluid’s motion obeying Euler’s equations. The dissipation of a linear combination of modified fluid helicity and magnetic twist is shown to occur due to coupled effect of frame dragging and meridional circulation. It is found that the growing twist of magnetic lines causes the dissipation of modified fluid helicity in the absence of meridional circulations.     

旋涡的场特征与物质性──离散涡方法基础

旋涡的场特征与物质性──离散涡方法基础吴文权（华东工业大学，上海，２０００９３）关键词旋涡动力学，旋涡场性，旋涡物质性众人关注的不稳定、非定常、分离流动无不与旋涡有关。因而对旋涡的研究吸引了人们的注意。尤其是近来非线性科学的发展，提供了新的思想、方法...     

Immersed boundary method for the simulation of 2D viscous flow based on vorticity–velocity formulations

A new immersed boundary method based on vorticity–velocity formulations for the simulation of 2D incompressible viscous flow is proposed in present paper. The velocity and vorticity are respectively divided into two parts: one is the velocity and vorticity without the influence of the immersed boundary, and the other is the corrected velocity and the corrected vorticity derived from the influence of the immersed boundary. The corrected velocity is obtained from the multi-direct forcing to ensure the well satisfaction of the no-slip boundary condition at the immersed boundary. The corrected vorticity is derived from the vorticity transport equation. The third-order Runge–Kutta for time stepping, the fourth-order finite difference scheme for spatial derivatives and the fourth-order discretized Poisson for solving velocity are applied in present flow solver. Three cases including decaying vortices, flow past a stationary circular cylinder and an in-line oscillating cylinder in a fluid at rest are conducted to validate the method proposed in this paper. And the results of the simulations show good agreements with previous numerical and experimental results. This indicates the validity and the accuracy of present immersed boundary method based on vorticity–velocity formulations.     

Applications of a Cole–Hopf transform to the 3D Navier–Stokes equations

The Navier–Stokes equations written in the vector potential can be recast as non-linear Schrödinger equations at imaginary times, i.e. heat equations with a potential term, using the Cole–Hopf transform. On this basis, we study two kinds of Navier–Stokes flows by means of direct numerical simulations. In an experiment on vortex reconnection, it is found that the potential term takes large negative values in regions where intensive reconnection takes place, whereas the signature of the non-linear term is more broadly spread. For decaying turbulence starting from a random initial condition, such a correspondence is also observed in the early stage when the flow is dominated by vorticity layers. At later times, when the flow features several tubular vortices, this correspondence becomes weaker. Finally, a similar set of transformations is presented for the magneto–hydrodynamic equations, which reduces them to a set of heat equations with suitable potential terms, thereby obtaining new criteria for the regularity of their solutions.     

低雷诺数下钝体三维尾迹中的涡量符号律

钝体是目前各种工程中广泛应用的一种结构.钝体绕流的尾迹涡动力学也是经典的流体力学研究对象之一.本文通过直接数值模拟,针对低雷诺数下各种钝体结构的不可压缩绕流,当形成三维尾迹时,研究具有特定符号的涡量分布特征.通过分析两类钝体结构,基本的直柱体和受到几何扰动的柱体,总结并得到了更为广泛适用的涡量符号律.通过对比并分析这两类钝体结构,结合理论证明的结果,进一步厘清了对产生涡量符号律的这两类钝体结构之间的内在物理关联,即引起自然失稳的小扰动在惯性力作用下产生的表面涡量只能向下游演化发展,而几何扰动则根据扰动位置,产生的表面涡量可以向扰动上游或下游演化发展.从而可以推测所有钝体结构尾迹中的各种型式的涡脱落模态,从涡量符号律的演化角度来看,实际上是一致的,都是起源于壁面产生特定符号组合规律的∏型涡.     

对气象常用坐标系中位涡形式的探讨

气象常用垂直坐标系中的位涡方程及位涡形式是位涡理论及位涡诊断技术的基础.本文依据坐标转换的观点,分别用两种不同的方法推导出等压坐标和等熵坐标中的位涡方程及相应的位涡表达式.一是从三维矢量运动方程出发,由三维涡度方程、连续方程和热力学方程推导位涡方程;二是直接从等压坐标和等熵坐标中的标量运动方程组出发推导位涡方程.结果表明,用两种方法所得到的等压坐标中的位涡方程和位涡表达式形式有所不同,而等熵坐标中用两种方法所得到的位涡方程和位涡形式相同.对垂直坐标系的物理本质分析表明,采用第一种方法时尽管矢量运动方程中的 关键词： 位涡 坐标转换 等压坐标 等熵坐标     

Generation of the vorticity mode by sound in a vibrationally relaxing gas

The procedure of derivation of a new dynamical equation governing the vorticity mode that is generated by sound, is discussed in detail. It includes instantaneous quantities and does not require averaging over sound period. The resulting equation applies to both periodic and aperiodic sound as the origin of the vorticity mode. Under certain conditions, the direction of streamlines of the vorticity mode may be inverted as compared with that in a fluid with standard attenuation. This reflects an anomalous absorption of sound, when transfer of momentum of the vorticity mode into momentum of sound occurs. The theory is illustrated by a representative example of the generation of vorticity in a vibrationally relaxing gas in the field of periodic weakly diffracting acoustic beam.     

Revisit to frozen-in property of vorticity

Considering some simple topological properties of vorticity vector, the frozen-in property of vorticity herein is revisited. A vortex line, as is analogous to velocity vector along a streamline, is defined as such a coincident material(curve) line that connects many material fluid elements, on which the local vorticity vector for each fluid element is also tangent to the vortex line. The vortex line evolves in the same manner as the material line that it is initially associated with. The vortex line and the material line are both oriented to the same directions, and evolve with the proportional magnitude, just like being ‘frozen' or ‘glued' to the material elements of the fluid under the barotropic assumption. To relax the limits of incompressible and barotropic atmosphere, the frozen-in property is further derived and proved in the baroclinic case. Then two effective usages are given as examples. One is the derivation of potential vorticity conservation from the frozen-in property in both barotropic and baroclinic atmospheres, as a theory application, and the other is used to illuminate the vorticity generation and growth in ideal cases and real severe weather process, e.g., in squall line, tornado, and other severe convection weather with vortex. There is no necessity to derive vorticity equation, and this method is very intuitive to explain vorticity development qualitatively, especially for fast analysis for forecasters. Certainly, by investigating the evolution of vortex line, it is possible to locate the associated line element vector and its development on the basis of the frozen-in property of vorticity. Because it is simple and visualized, it manifests broad application prospects.