TEMPORAL SCALING BEHAVIOR OF DECAYING 2-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE

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WEISS, JB
MCWILLIAMS, JC
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS A-FLUID DYNAMICS | 1993年 / 5卷 / 03期
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10.1063/1.858647
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O3 [力学];
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08 ; 0801 ;
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Decaying two-dimensional turbulence is characterized by the emergence of coherent vortices, which subsequently dominate the evolution. The temporal scaling behavior of the flow is analyzed using a scaling theory, a long-time integration of the fluid equations, and a dissipative, modified point-vortex model that represents the turbulence as a system of interacting coherent structures. Good agreement is found in the behavior of average vortex properties, low-order moments of the flow fields, and the form of self-similar evolution.
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