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Acceleration structure in turbulence. Beat Lüthi, Alex Liberzon, Markus Holzner, Arkady Tsinober, S øren Ott, Jacob Berg, Jakob Mann. Aim of talk. gain inisght also in spatial structure (not just magnitude) strong acceleration in high strain and high enstrophy
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Acceleration structure in turbulence Beat Lüthi, Alex Liberzon, Markus Holzner, Arkady Tsinober, Søren Ott, Jacob Berg, Jakob Mann
Aim of talk • gain inisght also in spatial structure (not just magnitude) • strong acceleration in high strain and high enstrophy • for low Re curvature mainly in high enstrophy • for high Re curvature in high strain and high enstrophy • geometrical alignments of acceleration quantities • velocity-acceleration struct. func. and energy flux
Introduction • acceleration coupled to small scales, i.e. velocity gradients
Introduction • but also coupled to large scales
larger than unity, but decreasing with Re High magnitude in strain and/or enstrophy?
Rel= 70 Rel= 6600 High Re – low Re is qualitatively the same for acceleration structure
r(x,y,z,t) Camera 4 Camera 1 z y Camera 3 Camera 2 x Particle Tracking Velocimetry, 3d-PTV
Accuracy? Nature 2003:
three distinct regions Acceleration magnitude
no correspondence between strong curvature and strong vorticity strong curvature is highly correlated with low velocity right tail of PDF scales with -5/2 Curvature
streamline curvature scales with -11/2 stronger separation with high strain and enstrophy weak separation upon conditioning on high strain and enstrophy adding velocity results in scaling change from -5/2 to -7/2 Curvature
Curvature al ac cancelation in high strain is low Re effect why seemingly enstrophy dominated?
l1 l3 ω ac Geometrical structure
Conclusions • high acceleration magnitude also in high strain regions • curvature scales with -7/2 not with -5/2 if Re is very high • identify reason why @ low Re curvature correlates with vorticity, but why this effects vanishes for high Re • alignment with eigenframe stronger for ac, associated with stream lines • alignments are of kinematical nature • From vel-acc struct function we arrive at similar result for energy flux as Leonard, 1974, Borue&Orzag 1998