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We review the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha (NS-alpha) model of incompressible fluid turbulence -- also called the viscous Camassa-Holm equations and the LANS equations in the literature. We first re-derive…
In this communication, the closure formulas of von K\'arm\'an--Howarth and Corrsin equations are obtained through the Liouville theorem and the hypothesis of homogeneous isotropic incompressible turbulence. Such closures, based on the…
We present a framework for discussing LES equations with nonlinear dispersion. In this framework, we discuss the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha model of incompressible fluid turbulence --- also called the…
The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their fundamental transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its potential vorticity…
The Lagrangian average (LA) of the ideal fluid equations preserves their transport structure. This transport structure is responsible for the Kelvin circulation theorem of the LA flow and, hence, for its convection of potential vorticity…
A new approach to obtain the closure formulas for the von K\'arm\'an--Howarth and Corrsin equations is presented, which is based on the Lagrangian representation of the fluid motion, and on the Liouville theorem associated to the kinematics…
We demonstrate that, for the case of quasi-equipartition between the velocity and the magnetic field, the Lagrangian-averaged magnetohydrodynamics alpha-model (LAMHD) reproduces well both the large-scale and small-scale properties of…
The Lagrangian-Averaged Navier-Stokes alpha (LANS-alpha) model is a turbulence parameterization that has been shown to capture some of the most important features of high resolution ocean modeling at lower resolution. Simulations using…
In this paper we present an analytical study of a subgrid scale turbulence model of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, inspired by the Navier-Stokes-alpha (also known as the viscous Camassa-Holm equations or the…
A dynamic procedure for the Lagrangian Averaged Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ (LANS-$\alpha$) equations is developed where the variation in the parameter $\alpha$ in the direction of anisotropy is determined in a self-consistent way from data…
Elliptic instability in fluids is discussed in the context of the Lagrangian-averaged Navier-Stokes-alpha (LANS$-\alpha$) turbulence model. This model preserves the Craik-Criminale (CC) family of solutions consisting of a columnar eddy and…
Spectral analysis for a class of Lagrangian-averaged Navier--Stokes (LANS) equations on the sphere is carried out. The equations arise from the Navier--Stokes equations by applying a Helmholtz filter of width $\alpha$ to the advecting…
We show here the global, in time, regularity of the three dimensional viscous Camassa-Holm (Lagrangian Averaged Navier-Stokes-alpha) equations. We also provide estimates, in terms of the physical parameters of the equations, for the…
We compute solutions of the Lagrangian-Averaged Navier-Stokes alpha-model (LANS) for significantly higher Reynolds numbers (up to Re 8300) than have previously been accomplished. This allows sufficient separation of scales to observe a…
The Lagrangian-Averaged Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ (LANS-$\alpha$) model, a turbulence closure scheme based on energy-conserving modifications to nonlinear advection, can produce more energetic simulations than standard models, leading to…
We present an extension of the Karman-Howarth theorem to the Lagrangian averaged magnetohydrodynamic (LAMHD-alpha) equations. The scaling laws resulting as a corollary of this theorem are studied in numerical simulations, as well as the…
In this paper we study a well-known three--dimensional turbulence model, the filtered Clark model, or Clark-alpha model. This is Large Eddy Simulation (LES) tensor-diffusivity model of turbulent flows with an additional spatial filter of…
In this paper we consider the Lagrangian Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations, also known as, LANS-$\alpha$ Navier-Stokes model on the two dimensional torus. We assume that the noise is a cylindrical Wiener process and its coefficient is…
We present a new application of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT): the stability analysis of fluid flows. As a test case that demonstrates the framework we focus on the plane Couette flow. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equation is…
We determine how the differences in the treatment of the subfilter-scale physics affect the properties of the flow for three closely related regularizations of Navier-Stokes. The consequences on the applicability of the regularizations as…