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- Title
Differential model for 2D turbulence.
- Authors
L'vov, V. S.; Nazarenko, S.
- Abstract
We present a phenomenological model for 2D turbulence in which the energy spectrum obeys a nonlinear fourth-order differential equation. This equation respects the scaling properties of the original Navier-Stokes equations, and it has both the −5/3 inverse-cascade and the −3 direct-cascade spectra. In addition, our model has Raleigh-Jeans thermodynamic distributions as exact steady state solutions. We use the model to derive a relation between the direct-cascade and the inverse-cascade Kolmogorov constants, which is in good qualitative agreement with the laboratory and numerical experiments. We discuss a steady state solution where both the enstrophy and the energy cascades are present simultaneously, and we discuss it in the context of the Nastrom-Gage spectrum observed in atmospheric turbulence. We also consider the effect of the bottom friction on the cascade solutions and show that it leads to an additional decrease and finite-wavenumber cutoffs of the respective cascade spectra, which agrees with the existing experimental and numerical results.
- Subjects
NAVIER-Stokes equations; TURBULENCE; NUMERICAL solutions to nonlinear differential equations; HEAVY particles (Nuclear physics); MATHEMATICAL models; KOLMOGOROV complexity; ATMOSPHERIC turbulence
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2006, Vol 83, Issue 12, p541
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0021364006120046