Multifractal analysis by using high-resolution direct numerical simulation of turbulence

Multifractal analysis based on the energy dissipation epsilon and the enstrophy Omega in isotropic turbulence is made by using high-resolution direct numerical simulation of turbulence with the number of grid points up to 20483. The analysis shows that the singularity exponents alpha and alpha' that characterize the intermittencies associated with epsilon and Omega, respectively, agree well with each other in the inertial subrange. This result is consistent with log epsilon(r) and log Omega(r) correlating well with each other for the scale r in the inertial subrange, where the subscript denotes the local average over a cubic domain of size r.