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Sweeping effect and Taylor's hypothesis via correlation function

Fluid Dynamics 2017-09-12 v3 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We performed high-resolution numerical simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence with and without mean velocity (U0=0,10U_0=0,10), and demonstrate the sweeping effect. For U0=0U_0=0, the velocity correlation function, C(k,τ)C({\bf k},\tau) decays with time due to eddy viscosity, but it also shows fluctuations due to the sweeping effect. For U0=10U_0=10, C(k,τ)C({\bf k},\tau) exhibits damped oscillations with the frequency of U0kU_0 k and decay time scale corresponding to the U0=0U_0=0 case. A closer examination of [C(k,τ)]\Im[C({\bf k},\tau)] also demonstrates sweeping effect for U0=10U_0=10. We also demonstrate that the frequency spectra of the velocity fields measured by real-space probes are respectively f2f^{-2} and f5/3f^{-5/3} for U0=0U_0=0 and 10; these spectra are related to the Lagrangian and Eulerian space-time correlations.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2693,
  title  = {Sweeping effect and Taylor's hypothesis via correlation function},
  author = {Mahendra K. Verma and Abhishek Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2693},
  year   = {2017}
}
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