TY - JOUR
T1 - Fractal Iso-Contours of Passive Scalar in Two-Dimensional Smooth Random Flows
AU - Vucelja, Marija
AU - Falkovich, Gregory
AU - Turitsyn, Konstantin S.
N1 - NSF [PHY05-51164]; BSF; ISF; Minerva foundation at the Weizmann InstituteThis research was supported by the NSF grant PHY05-51164 at KITP, and by the grants of BSF, ISF and Minerva foundation at the Weizmann Institute. We benefited from discussions with I. Binder, G. Boffetta, D. Dolgopyat, A. Celani, K. Khanin, J.P. Eckmann, S. Smirnov and C. Connaughton.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - A passive scalar field was studied under the action of pumping, diffusion and advection by a 2D smooth flow with Lagrangian chaos. We present theoretical arguments showing that the scalar statistics are not conformally invariant and formulate a new effective semi-analytic algorithm to model scalar turbulence. We then carry out massive numerics of scalar turbulence, focusing on nodal lines. The distribution of contours over sizes and perimeters is shown to depend neither on the flow realization nor on the resolution (diffusion) scale rd for scales exceeding rd. The scalar isolines are found to be fractal/smooth at scales larger/smaller than the pumping scale. We characterize the statistics of isoline bending by the driving function of the Löwner map. That function is found to behave like diffusion with diffusivity independent of the resolution yet, most surprisingly, dependent on the velocity realization and time (beyond the time on which the statistics of the scalar is stabilized).
AB - A passive scalar field was studied under the action of pumping, diffusion and advection by a 2D smooth flow with Lagrangian chaos. We present theoretical arguments showing that the scalar statistics are not conformally invariant and formulate a new effective semi-analytic algorithm to model scalar turbulence. We then carry out massive numerics of scalar turbulence, focusing on nodal lines. The distribution of contours over sizes and perimeters is shown to depend neither on the flow realization nor on the resolution (diffusion) scale rd for scales exceeding rd. The scalar isolines are found to be fractal/smooth at scales larger/smaller than the pumping scale. We characterize the statistics of isoline bending by the driving function of the Löwner map. That function is found to behave like diffusion with diffusivity independent of the resolution yet, most surprisingly, dependent on the velocity realization and time (beyond the time on which the statistics of the scalar is stabilized).
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U2 - 10.1007/s10955-012-0474-1
DO - 10.1007/s10955-012-0474-1
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0022-4715
VL - 147
SP - 424
EP - 435
JO - Journal of Statistical Physics
JF - Journal of Statistical Physics
IS - 2
ER -