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  • 2019Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","043004"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","New Journal of Physics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","21"],["dc.contributor.author","Buaria, Dhawal"],["dc.contributor.author","Pumir, Alain"],["dc.contributor.author","Bodenschatz, Eberhard"],["dc.contributor.author","Yeung, P. K."],["dc.date.accessioned","2019-07-09T11:51:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2019-07-09T11:51:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","Fully turbulent flows are characterized by intermittent formation of very localized and intense velocity gradients. These gradients can be orders of magnitude larger than their typical value and lead to many unique properties of turbulence. Using direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations with unprecedented small-scale resolution, we characterize such extreme events over a significant range of turbulence intensities, parameterized by the Taylor-scale Reynolds number (Rl). Remarkably, we find the strongest velocity gradients to empirically scale as t l - Rb K 1 , with b »  0.775 0.025,where tK is theKolmogorov time scale (with its inverse, t-K1, being the rms of velocity gradient fluctuations). Additionally, we observe velocity increments across very small distances r  h,where η is theKolmogorov length scale, to be as large as the rms of the velocity fluctuations. Both observations suggest that the smallest length scale in the flow behaves as h l R-a,with a = b - 1 2 , which is at odds with predictions from existing phenomenological theories.Wefind that extreme gradients are arranged in vortex tubes, such that strain conditioned on vorticity grows on average slower than vorticity, approximately as a power law with an exponent g < 1, which weakly increaseswith Rl.Using scaling arguments,we get b = (2 - g)-1,which suggests that βwould also slowly increasewith Rl.We conjecture that approaching themathematical limit of infinite Rl, strain and vorticity would scale similarly resulting in g = 1and hence extreme events occurring at a scale h l R-1/2 corresponding to b = 1."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1088/1367-2630/ab0756"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16127"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/59948"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.relation","info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/312778/EU//EUHIT"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Fakultät für Physik"],["dc.rights","CC BY 3.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"],["dc.subject.ddc","530"],["dc.title","Extreme velocity gradients in turbulent flows"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2014Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","041006"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Physical Review X"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","4"],["dc.contributor.author","Pumir, Alain"],["dc.contributor.author","Xu, H."],["dc.contributor.author","Boffetta, Guido"],["dc.contributor.author","Falkovich, Gregory"],["dc.contributor.author","Bodenschatz, Eberhard"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:33:40Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:33:40Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","In statistically homogeneous turbulent flows, pressure forces provide the main mechanism to redistribute kinetic energy among fluid elements, without net contribution to the overall energy budget. This holds true in both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) flows, which show fundamentally different physics. As we demonstrate here, pressure forces act on fluid elements very differently in these two cases. We find in numerical simulations that in 3D pressure forces strongly accelerate the fastest fluid elements, and that in 2D this effect is absent. In 3D turbulence, our findings put forward a mechanism for a possibly singular buildup of energy, and thus may shed new light on the smoothness problem of the solution of the Navier-Stokes equation in 3D."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041006"],["dc.identifier.fs","606696"],["dc.identifier.isi","000343773800001"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/11554"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/32019"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Amer Physical Soc"],["dc.relation","info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/312778/EU//EUHIT"],["dc.relation.issn","2160-3308"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Fakultät für Physik"],["dc.rights","CC BY 3.0"],["dc.title","Redistribution of Kinetic Energy in Turbulent Flows"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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