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Chaotic and regular instantons in helical shell models of turbulence

Massimo De Pietro1, Alexei A. Mailybaev2, and Luca Biferale1

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università “Tor Vergata,” Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
  • 2Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 034606 – Published 29 March, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.034606

Abstract

Shell models of turbulence have a finite-time blowup in the inviscid limit, i.e., the enstrophy diverges while the single-shell velocities stay finite. The signature of this blowup is represented by self-similar instantonic structures traveling coherently through the inertial range. These solutions might influence the energy transfer and the anomalous scaling properties empirically observed for the forced and viscous models. In this paper we present a study of the instantonic solutions for a set of four shell models of turbulence based on the exact decomposition of the Navier-Stokes equations in helical eigenstates. We find that depending on the helical structure of each model, instantons are chaotic or regular. Some instantonic solutions tend to recover mirror symmetry for scales small enough. Models that have anomalous scaling develop regular nonchaotic instantons. Conversely, models that have nonanomalous scaling in the stationary regime are those that have chaotic instantons. The direction of the energy carried by each single instanton tends to coincide with the direction of the energy cascade in the stationary regime. Finally, we find that whenever the small-scale stationary statistics is intermittent, the instanton is less steep than the dimensional Kolmogorov scaling, independently of whether or not it is chaotic. Our findings further support the idea that instantons might be crucial to describe some aspects of the multiscale anomalous statistics of shell models.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 034606– Published 29 March, 2017
  • Received 3 August 2016

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