A toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons
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| author | Ruffenach, Wandrille Fery, Lucas Dubrulle, Bérengère |
| author_facet | Ruffenach, Wandrille Fery, Lucas Dubrulle, Bérengère |
| contents | We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense structures, which are represented by vortons: dynamically regularized quasi-singularities that experience rapid distortion from the large-scale shear. The vortons, in turn, influence the large-scale flow through the sub-grid stress tensor. Despite its simplicity, the model displays an interesting transition between two distinct regimes: (i) a laminar regime, where dissipation is entirely attributed to the large-scale flow, and the vortons dynamics is essentially diffusive, and (ii) a turbulent regime, in which most of the dissipation arises from the vortons. These regimes correspond to different scalings of dissipation and the Grashof number as functions of the Reynolds number, with power-law relationships that resemble those observed in classical turbulence. |
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| spellingShingle | A toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons Ruffenach, Wandrille Fery, Lucas Dubrulle, Bérengère Fluid Dynamics We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense structures, which are represented by vortons: dynamically regularized quasi-singularities that experience rapid distortion from the large-scale shear. The vortons, in turn, influence the large-scale flow through the sub-grid stress tensor. Despite its simplicity, the model displays an interesting transition between two distinct regimes: (i) a laminar regime, where dissipation is entirely attributed to the large-scale flow, and the vortons dynamics is essentially diffusive, and (ii) a turbulent regime, in which most of the dissipation arises from the vortons. These regimes correspond to different scalings of dissipation and the Grashof number as functions of the Reynolds number, with power-law relationships that resemble those observed in classical turbulence. |
| title | A toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05779 |