Rotating helical turbulence. I. Global evolution and spectral behavior
We present results from two 15363 direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence where both energy and helicity are injected into the flow by an external forcing. The dual cascade of energy and helicity toward smaller scales observed in isotropic and homogeneous turbulence is broken in the pres...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital (UBA-FCEN) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | paperaa:paper_10706631_v22_n3_p5_Mininni |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10706631_v22_n3_p5_Mininni |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | External forcing Global quantities Helical turbulence Helicities Homogeneous turbulence Low Rossby number Lower resolution Reynolds Rossby numbers Rotating turbulence Spectral behaviors Computer simulation Turbulence Rotation |
| Sumario: | We present results from two 15363 direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence where both energy and helicity are injected into the flow by an external forcing. The dual cascade of energy and helicity toward smaller scales observed in isotropic and homogeneous turbulence is broken in the presence of rotation, with the development of an inverse cascade of energy now coexisting with direct cascades of energy and helicity. In the direct cascade range, the flux of helicity dominates over that of energy at low Rossby number. These cascades have several consequences for the statistics of the flow. The evolution of global quantities and of the energy and helicity spectra is studied, and comparisons with simulations at different Reynolds and Rossby numbers at lower resolution are done to identify scaling laws. © 2010 American Institute of Physics. |
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