The Navier-Stokes-alpha model of fluid turbulence

Abstract

We review the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha (NS-alpha) model of incompressible fluid turbulence -- also called the viscous Camassa-Holm equations and the LANS equations in the literature. We first re-derive the NS-alpha model by filtering the velocity of the fluid loop in Kelvin's circulation theorem for the Navier-Stokes equations. Then we show that this filtering causes the wavenumber spectrum of the translational kinetic energy for the NS-alpha model to roll off as k^{-3} for k α> 1 in three dimensions, instead of continuing along the slower Kolmogorov scaling law, k^{-5/3}, that it follows for k α< 1. This rolloff at higher wavenumbers shortens the inertial range for the NS-alpha model and thereby makes it more computable. We also explain how the NS-alpha model is related to large eddy simulation (LES) turbulence modeling and to the stress tensor for second-grade fluids. We close by surveying recent results in the literature for the NS-alpha model and its inviscid limit (the Euler-alpha model).

22 pages, 1 figure. Dedicated to V. E. Zakharov on the occasion of his 60th birthday. To appear in Physica D

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