Large Eddy Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence
arXiv:0910.0183
Abstract
Based on ideas by Woodward et al., a subgrid scale model that is applicable to highly compressible turbulence is presented. Applying the subgrid scale model in large eddy simulations of forced supersonic turbulence, the bottleneck effect is largely reduced and, thereby, approximate scaling laws can be obtained at relatively low numerical resolution. In agreement with previous results from PPM simulations without explicit subgrid scale model, it is found that the energy spectrum function for the velocity field with fractional density-weighing, rho^(1/3)u, varies substantially with the forcing, at least for the decade of wavenumbers next to the energy-containing range. Consequently, if universal scaling of compressible turbulence exists, it can be found on length scales much smaller than the forcing scale only.
6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings article for ASTRONUM 2009, 4th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows in Chamonix
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