Intermittency in two-dimensional Ekman-Navier-Stokes turbulence
- 16 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 66 (2), 026304
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.026304
Abstract
We study the statistics of the vorticity field in two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence with linear Ekman friction. We show that the small-scale vorticity fluctuations are intermittent, as conjectured by Bernard [Europhys. Lett. 50, 333 (2000)] and Nam et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5134 (2000)]. The small-scale statistics of vorticity fluctuations coincide with that of a passive scalar with finite lifetime transported by the velocity field itself.Keywords
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