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Eddy diffusivity operator in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Yasaman Shirian* and Ali Mani†

  • Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

  • *yshirian@stanford.edu
  • †alimani@stanford.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, L052601 – Published 4 May, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.L052601

Abstract

We use the recently developed macroscopic forcing method [A. Mani and D. Park, Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 054607 (2021).] to compute the scale-dependent eddy diffusivity characterizing ensemble-averaged scalar and momentum transport in incompressible homogeneous isotropic turbulence. For scales larger than the energy containing eddies, eddy diffusivity is found to be constant and consistent with the Boussinesq approximation. However, for small scales eddy diffusivity is found to vanish inversely proportional to the wave number. Behavior at all scales is reasonably captured by a nonlocal eddy diffusivity operator modeled as D/I−l2∇2, where D is the eddy diffusivity in the Boussinesq limit, and l is a constant on the order of the large-eddy length. These results present a direct measurement of eddy diffusivity in turbulence with implications in turbulence modeling.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, L052601– Published 4 May, 2022
  • Received 14 February 2019
  • Revised 15 June 2021
  • Accepted 21 December 2021
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