Recent Developments in Understanding Two-dimensional Turbulence and the Nastrom-Gage Spectrum
Chaotic Dynamics
2010-11-16 v1
Abstract
Two-dimensional turbulence appears to be a more formidable problem than three-dimensional turbulence despite the numerical advantage of working with one less dimension. In the present paper we review recent numerical investigations of the phenomenology of two-dimensional turbulence as well as recent theoretical breakthroughs by various leading researchers. We also review efforts to reconcile the observed energy spectrum of the atmosphere (the spectrum) with the predictions of two-dimensional turbulence and quasi-geostrophic turbulence.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0608064,
title = {Recent Developments in Understanding Two-dimensional Turbulence and the Nastrom-Gage Spectrum},
author = {Eleftherios Gkioulekas and Ka-Kit Tung},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0608064},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Invited review; accepted by J. Low Temp. Phys.; Proceedings for Warwick Turbulence Symposium Workshop on Universal features in turbulence: from quantum to cosmological scales, 2005