Compressible vortex structures and their role in the onset of hydrodynamic turbulence
arXiv:2201.12890 · doi:10.3367/UFNe.2020.11.038875
Abstract
We study formation of quasi two-dimensional (thin pancakes) vortex structures in three-dimensional flows, and quasi one-dimensional structures in two-dimensional hydrodynamics. These structures are formed at high Reynolds numbers, when their evolution is described at the leading order by the Euler equations for an ideal incompressible fluid. We show numerically and analytically that the compression of these structures and, as a consequence, the increase in their amplitudes is related to the compressibility of the frozen-in-fluid fields: the field of continuously distributed vortex lines in the three-dimensional case and the field of vorticity rotor (divorticity) for two-dimensional flows. We find that the growth of vorticity and divorticity can be considered as a process of breaking of the corresponding fields. At high intensities, the process demonstrates a Kolmogorov-type scaling relating the maximum amplitude with the characteristic width of the structures. The possible role of these coherent structures is analyzed in the formation of the turbulent Kolmogorov spectrum, as well as the Kraichnan spectrum corresponding to a constant flux of enstrophy in the case of two-dimensional turbulence.
arXiv comment45 pages, 17 figures
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