Evidence of Intermittent Cascades from Discrete Hierarchical Dissipation in Turbulence

Abstract

We present the results of a search of log-periodic corrections to scaling in the moments of the energy dissipation rate in experiments at high Reynolds number (2500) of three-dimensional fully developed turbulence. A simple dynamical representation of the Richardson-Kolmogorov cartoon of a cascade shows that standard averaging techniques erase by their very construction the possible existence of log-periodic corrections to scaling associated with a discrete hierarchy. To remedy this drawback, we introduce a novel ``canonical'' averaging that we test extensively on synthetic examples constructed to mimick the interplay between a weak log-periodic component and rather strong multiplicative and phase noises. Our extensive tests confirm the remarkable observation of statistically significant log-periodic corrections to scaling, with a prefered scaling ratio for length scales compatible with the value gamma = 2. A strong confirmation of this result is provided by the identification of up to 5 harmonics of the fundamental log-periodic undulations, associated with up to 5 levels of the underlying hierarchical dynamical structure. A natural interpretation of our results is that the Richardson-Kolmogorov mental picture of a cascade becomes a realistic description if one allows for intermittent births and deaths of discrete cascades at varying scales.

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