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Anomalous and dimensional scaling in anisotropic turbulence

Chaotic Dynamics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present a numerical study of anisotropic statistical fluctuations in homogeneous turbulent flows. We give an argument to predict the dimensional scaling exponents, (p+j)/3, for the projections of p-th order structure function in the j-th sector of the rotational group. We show that measured exponents are anomalous, showing a clear deviation from the dimensional prediction. Dimensional scaling is subleading and it is recovered only after a random reshuffling of all velocity phases, in the stationary ensemble. This supports the idea that anomalous scaling is the result of a genuine inertial evolution, independent of large-scale behavior.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0203013,
  title  = {Anomalous and dimensional scaling in anisotropic turbulence},
  author = {L. Biferale and I. Daumont and A. Lanotte and F. Toschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0203013},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures