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Velocity-vorticity correlation and turbulent diffusivity in buoyancy driven fluid dynamics

Fluid Dynamics 2019-02-19 v2

Abstract

The velocity-vorticity correlation integral (Chkhetiani invariant) is an invariant of a viscous Karman-Howarth equation. In the tree-dimensional space this invariant can naturally determine a turbulent diffusivity (viscosity). It is shown, using results of direct numerical simulations, that distributed chaos dominated by this integral can provide an adequate description of the turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection, stably stratified turbulence and Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at Prandtl number Pr1Pr \sim 1.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04479,
  title  = {Velocity-vorticity correlation and turbulent diffusivity in buoyancy driven fluid dynamics},
  author = {A. Bershadskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04479},
  year   = {2019}
}
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