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Abstract

• Experiments have shown that Lagrangian statistics in turbulent flows display Gaussianly distributed velocity values and non-Gaussianly distributed velocity differences or accelerations. Coherent flow structures in the form of vortices have often been proposed to play an important role in this behavior. Here we examine the origin of these statistics using both continuously stirred n-body point-vortex simulations and analytic random variable transformation in a simplified model of randomly distributed vortices. We conclude that Lagrangian velocity distributions can be understood in terms of dominant nearest vortex neighbor contributions. Accelerations likewise reflect vortical contributions, but at smallest temporal increment are dominated, not by the motion of the Lagrangian tracers, but by vorticity reconfiguration within the domain.

Creator

• Rast, Mark Peter
• Pinton, Jean-Francois

Date Issued

• 2009-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS)

Journal Title

• Physical Review E

Journal Volume

• 79

File Extent

• 046314-1-046314-12

Subject

• Turbulence Statistics and Models

最新修改

• 2019-12-05

Resource Type

• Article

权利声明

• In Copyright

DOI

• 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.046314

ISSN

• 1539-3755

Language

• English [eng]

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