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Fluctuating hydrodynamics and turbulence in a rotating fluid: Universal properties

Abhik Basu*

Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee†

  • Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700064, India

  • Satyendranath Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Sector III, Saltlake, Kolkata (Calcutta) 700098, India

  • *abhik.basu@saha.ac.in
  • †jkb@bose.res.in
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Phys. Rev. E 85, 026311 – Published 10 February, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.026311

Abstract

We analyze the statistical properties of three-dimensional (3D) turbulence in a rotating fluid. To this end we introduce a generating functional to study the statistical properties of the velocity field v. We obtain the master equation from the Navier-Stokes equation in a rotating frame and thence a set of exact hierarchical equations for the velocity structure functions for arbitrary angular velocity Ω. In particular we obtain the differential forms for the analogs of the well-known von Karman-Howarth relation for 3D fluid turbulence. We examine their behavior in the limit of large rotation. Our results clearly suggest dissimilar statistical behavior and scaling along directions parallel and perpendicular to Ω. The hierarchical relations yield strong evidence that the nature of the flows for large rotation is not identical to pure two-dimensional flows. To complement these results, by using an effective model in the small-Ω limit, within a one-loop approximation, we show that the equal-time correlation of the velocity components parallel to Ω displays Kolmogorov scaling q−5/3 wherein as for all other components, the equal-time correlators scale as q−3 in the inertial range where q is a wave vector in 3D. Our results are generally testable in experiments and/or direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equation in a rotating frame.

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Phys. Rev. E 85, 026311– Published 10 February, 2012
  • Received 10 October 2011

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