Analysis of the dissipative range of the energy spectrum in grid turbulence and in direct numerical simulations

Abstract

We present a statistical analysis of the behavior of the kinetic energy spectrum in the dissipative range of scales of fully developed three-dimensional turbulence. We analyze spectra recorded in experiments of grid turbulence generated in the Modane wind tunnel, and spectra obtained from high-resolution direct numerical simulations of the forced Navier-Stokes equation. We focus on wave-number scales in the near-dissipative range. We find that in this domain, the spectra behave as a stretched exponential with an exponent $\alpha =0.68\pm 0.19$. This result corroborates previous DNS studies which found that the spectrum in the near-dissipative range is best modeled by a stretched exponential with $\alpha <1$. Moreover, we here give an estimate for the actual value of $\alpha$, which turns out to be in precise agreement with the theoretical prediction $\alpha =2/3$ from the non-perturbative renormalisation group.

arXiv comment12 pages, 11 figures

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