Exact resummations in the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence .3. Scenarios for anomalous scaling and intermittency

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作者
Lvov, V
Procaccia, I
机构
[1] WEIZMANN INST SCI,DEPT PHYS CHEM,IL-76100 REHOVOT,ISRAEL
[2] RUSSIAN ACAD SCI,INST AUTOMAT & ELECTROMETRY,NOVOSIBIRSK 630090,RUSSIA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1996年 / 53卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevE.53.3468
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Elements of the analytic structure of anomalous scaling and intermittency in fully developed hydrodynamic turbulence are described. We focus here on the structure functions of velocity differences that satisfy inertial range scaling laws S-n(R)similar to R(zeta n), and the correlation of energy dissipation K-epsilon epsilon(R)similar to R(-mu). The goal is to understand from first principles what is the mechanism that is responsible for changing the exponents zeta(n) and mu from their classical Kolmogorov values. In paper II of this series [V. S. L'vov and I. Procaccia, Phys. Rev. E 52, 3858 (1995)] it was shown that the existence of an ultraviolet scale (the dissipation scale eta) is associated with a spectrum of anomalous exponents that characterize the ultraviolet divergences of correlations of gradient fields. The leading scaling exponent in this family was denoted Delta. The exact resummation of ladder diagrams resulted in a ''bridging relation,'' which determined Delta in terms of zeta(2): Delta = 2-zeta(2). In this paper we continue our analysis and show that nonperturbative effects may introduce multiscaling (i.e., zeta(n) not linear in n) with the renormalization scale being the infrared outer scale of turbulence L. It is shown that deviations from the classical Kolmogorov 1941 theory scaling of S-n(R) (zeta(n) not equal n/3) must appear if the correlation of dissipation is mixing (i.e., mu>0). We suggest possible scenarios for multiscaling, and discuss the implication of these scenarios on the values of the scaling exponents zeta(n) and their ''bridge'' with mu.
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页码:3468 / 3490
页数:23
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