On the convection of a passive scalar by a turbulent Gaussian velocity field

1991 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Lipscombe ◽  
A. L. Frenkel ◽  
D. ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Passive Scalar

Convection of a passive scalar by a quasi-uniform random straining field

1974 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Kraichnan
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Joint Probability ◽  
Passive Scalar ◽  
Joint Probability Distribution ◽  
Molecular Diffusivity ◽  
Velocity Reversal ◽  
Amplitude Profile ◽  
Line Elements ◽  
Rates Of Growth

The stretching of line elements, surface elements and wave vectors by a random, isotropic, solenoidal velocity field in D dimensions is studied. The rates of growth of line elements and (D – 1)-dimensional surface elements are found to be equal if the statistics are invariant to velocity reversal. The analysis is applied to convection of a sparse distribution of sheets of passive scalar in a random straining field whose correlation scale is large compared with the sheet size. This is Batchelor's (1959) κ−1 spectral regime. Some exact analytical solutions are found when the velocity field varies rapidly in time. These include the dissipation spectrum and a joint probability distribution that describes the simultaneous effect of Stretching and molecular diffusivity κ on the amplitude profile of a sheet. The latter leads to probability distributions of the scalar field and its space derivatives. For a growing κ−1 range at zero κ, these derivatives have essentially lognormal statistics. In the steady-state κ−1 regime at κ > 0, intermittencies measured by moment ratios are much smaller than for lognormal statistics, and they increase less rapidly with the order of the derivative than in the κ = 0 case. The κ > 0 distributions have singularities a t zero amplitude, due to a background of highly diffused sheets. The results do not depend strongly on D. But as D → ∞, temporal fluctuations in the stretching rates become negligible and Batchelor's (1959) constant-strain dissipation spectrum is recovered.

Passive scalar statistics in high-Péclet-number grid turbulence

1998 ◽  
Vol 358 ◽  
pp. 135-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. MYDLARSKI ◽  
Z. WARHAFT
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Velocity Field ◽  
Peclet Number ◽  
Passive Scalar ◽  
Structure Functions ◽  
Order Structure ◽  
Grid Turbulence ◽  
Temperature Derivative ◽  
Péclet Number ◽  
Transverse Temperature

The statistics of a turbulent passive scalar (temperature) and their Reynolds number dependence are studied in decaying grid turbulence for the Taylor-microscale Reynolds number, Rλ, varying from 30 to 731 (21[les ]Peλ[les ]512). A principal objective is, using a single (and simple) flow, to bridge the gap between the existing passive grid-generated low-Péclet-number laboratory experiments and those done at high Péclet number in the atmosphere and oceans. The turbulence is generated by means of an active grid and the passive temperature fluctuations are generated by a mean transverse temperature gradient, formed at the entrance to the wind tunnel plenum chamber by an array of differentially heated elements. A well-defined inertial–convective scaling range for the scalar with a slope, nθ, close to the Obukhov–Corrsin value of 5/3, is observed for all Reynolds numbers. This is in sharp contrast with the velocity field, in which a 5/3 slope is only approached at high Rλ. The Obukhov–Corrsin constant, Cθ, is estimated to be 0.45–0.55. Unlike the velocity spectrum, a bump occurs in the spectrum of the scalar at the dissipation scales, with increasing prominence as the Reynolds number is increased. A scaling range for the heat flux cospectrum was also observed, but with a slope around 2, less than the 7/3 expected from scaling theory. Transverse structure functions of temperature exist at the third and fifth orders, and, as for even-order structure functions, the width of their inertial subranges dilates with Reynolds number in a systematic way. As previously shown for shear flows, the existence of these odd-order structure functions is a violation of local isotropy for the scalar differences, as is the existence of non-zero values of the transverse temperature derivative skewness (of order unity) and hyperskewness (of order 100). The ratio of the temperature derivative standard deviation along and normal to the gradient is 1.2±0.1, and is independent of Reynolds number. The refined similarity hypothesis for the passive scalar was found to hold for all Rλ, which was not the case for the velocity field. The intermittency exponent for the scalar, μθ, was found to be 0.25±0.05 with a possible weak Rλ dependence, unlike the velocity field, where μ was a strong function of Reynolds number. New, higher-Reynolds-number results for the velocity field, which smoothly follow the trends of Mydlarski & Warhaft (1996), are also presented.

scholarly journals Finite Time Correlations and Compressibility Effects in the Three-Dimensional Kraichnan Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Martin Menkyna
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Finite Time ◽  
Order Approximation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Passive Scalar ◽  
Parametric Space ◽  
Kraichnan Model ◽  
Time Correlations ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Compressibility Effects

Using the field theoretic renormalization group technique the simultaneous influence of the compressibility and finite time correlations of the non-solenoidal Gaussian velocity field on the advection of a passive scalar field is studied within the generalized Kraichnan model in three spatial dimensions up to the second-order approximation in the corresponding perturbative expansion. All possible infrared stable fixed points of the model, which drive the corresponding scaling regimes of the model, are identified and their regions of the infrared stability in the model parametric space are discussed. It is shown that, depending on the value of the parameter that drives the compressibility of the system, there exists a gap in the parametric space between the regions where the model with the frozen velocity field and the model with finite-time correlations of the velocity field are stable or there exists an overlap between them.

Cascades of temperature and entropy fluctuations in compressible turbulence

2019 ◽  
Vol 867 ◽  
pp. 195-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianchun Wang ◽  
Minping Wan ◽  
Song Chen ◽  
Chenyue Xie ◽  
Lian-Ping Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Velocity Component ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Passive Scalar ◽  
Inertial Range ◽  
Compressible Turbulence ◽  
Equilibrium Relation ◽  
Geometrical Properties ◽  
Conditional Averaging ◽  
Incompressible Turbulence

Cascades of temperature and entropy fluctuations are studied by numerical simulations of stationary three-dimensional compressible turbulence with a heat source. The fluctuation spectra of velocity, compressible velocity component, density and pressure exhibit the $-5/3$ scaling in an inertial range. The strong acoustic equilibrium relation between spectra of the compressible velocity component and pressure is observed. The $-5/3$ scaling behaviour is also identified for the fluctuation spectra of temperature and entropy, with the Obukhov–Corrsin constants close to that of a passive scalar spectrum. It is shown by Kovasznay decomposition that the dynamics of the temperature field is dominated by the entropic mode. The average subgrid-scale (SGS) fluxes of temperature and entropy normalized by the total dissipation rates are close to 1 in the inertial range. The cascade of temperature is dominated by the compressible mode of the velocity field, indicating that the theory of a passive scalar in incompressible turbulence is not suitable to describe the inter-scale transfer of temperature in compressible turbulence. In contrast, the cascade of entropy is dominated by the solenoidal mode of the velocity field. The different behaviours of cascades of temperature and entropy are partly explained by the geometrical properties of SGS fluxes. Moreover, the different effects of local compressibility on the SGS fluxes of temperature and entropy are investigated by conditional averaging with respect to the filtered dilatation, demonstrating that the effect of compressibility on the cascade of temperature is much stronger than on the cascade of entropy.

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