Eulerian and Lagrangian Statistics from high resolution Numerical Simulations of weakly compressible turbulence

Abstract

We report a detailed study of Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from high resolution Direct Numerical Simulations of isotropic weakly compressible turbulence. Reynolds number at the Taylor microscale is estimated to be around 600. Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics is evaluated over a huge data set, made by $1856^3$ spatial collocation points and by 16 million particles, followed for about one large-scale eddy turn over time. We present data for Eulerian and Lagrangian Structure functions up to ten order. We analyse the local scaling properties in the inertial range and in the viscous range. Eulerian results show a good superposition with previous data. Lagrangian statistics is different from existing experimental and numerical results, for moments of sixth order and higher. We interpret this in terms of a possible contamination from viscous scale affecting the estimate of the scaling properties in previous studies. We show that a simple bridge relation based on Multifractal theory is able to connect scaling properties of both Eulerian and Lagrangian observables, provided that the small differences between intermittency of transverse and longitudinal Eulerian structure functions are properly considered.

20 pages, 10 figures

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