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Dresden, May 2010
Introduction to turbulence theory
Gregory Falkovich
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/fnfal/
PlanLecture 1 (one hour): General Introduction .Wave turbulence, weak and strong .Direct and inverse cascades.
Lecture 2 (two hours): Incompressible fluid turbulence. Direct energy cascade at 3d and at large d. General flux relations. 2d turbulence. Passive scalar and passive vector in smooth random flows,small-scale kinematic magnetic dynamo.
Lecture 3 (two hours): Passive scalar in non-smooth flows, zero modes and statistical conservation laws. Inverse cascades, conformal invariance. Turbulence and a large-scale flow. Condensates, universal 2d vortex.
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Figure 1
Waves of small amplitude
Energy conservation and flux constancy in the inertial interval
Kinetic equation
Scale-invariant medium
Waves on deep water
Short (capillallary) waves
Long (gravity) waves
Direct energy cascade
Inverse action cascade
Plasma turbulence of Langmuir waves
20 kk
non-decay dispersion law – four-wave processes
constTkpqs
Direct energy cascades
3/73/1 kQnk
Inverse action cascades
33/1 knk
2kTkkkk
3/113/1 kQnk
3/133/23/1 kncnk
Interaction via ion sound in non-isothermal plasma Electronic interaction
Strong wave turbulence
Weak turbulence is determined by
2
Strong turbulence depends on the sign of T
For gravity waves on water
Burgers turbulence
Incompressible fluid turbulence
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General flux relations
Examples
Kolmogorov relation exploits the momentum conservation
Conclusion
• The Kolmogorov flux relation is a particular case of the general relation on the current-density correlation function.
• Using that, one can derive new exact relations for compressible turbulence.
• We derived an exact relation for the pressure-velocity correlation function in incompressible turbulence
• We argued that in the limit of large space dimensionality the new relations suggest Burgers scaling.
2d turbulence
two cascades
The double cascade Kraichnan 1967
The double cascade scenario is typical of 2d flows, e.g. plasmas and geophysical flows.
kF
Two inertial range of scales:•energy inertial range 1/L<k<kF
(with constant )•enstrophy inertial range kF<k<kd
(with constant )
Two power-law self similar spectra in the inertial ranges.
Passive scalar turbulence
Pumping correlation length L
Typical velocity gradient
Diffusion scale
Turbulence -
flux constancy
Smooth velocity (Batchelor regime)
2d squared vorticity cascade by analogy between vorticity and passive scalar
Small-scale magnetic dynamo
Can the presence of a finite resistance (diffusivity) stop the growth at long times?
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Lecture 3. Non-smooth velocity: direct and inverse cascades
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Anomalies (symmetry remains broken when symmetry breaking
factor goes to zero) can be traced to conserved quantities.
Anomalous scaling is due to statistical conservation laws.
G. Falkovich and k. Sreenivasan, Physics Today 59, 43 (2006)
Family of transport-type equations
m=2 Navier-Stokes m=1 Surface quasi-geostrophic model,m=-2 Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model
Kraichnan’s double cascade picture
pumping
k
Inverse energy cascade in 2d
Small-scale forcing – inverse cascades
Inverse cascade seems to be scale-invariant
Locality + scale invariance → conformal invariance ?
Polyakov 1993
Conformal transformation rescale non-uniformly but preserve angles z
perimeter P
Boundary Frontier Cut points
Boundary Frontier Cut points
Bernard, Boffetta, Celani &GF, Nature Physics 2006, PRL2007
Vorticity clusters
Connaughton, Chertkov, Lebedev, Kolokolov, Xia, Shats, Falkovich
Conclusion
Turbulence statistics is time-irreversible.
Weak turbulence is scale invariant and universal.
Strong turbulence:
Direct cascades have scale invariance broken.That can be alternatively explained in terms of either structuresor statistical conservation laws.
Inverse cascades may be not only scale invariant but also conformal invariant.
Spectral condensates of universal forms can coexist with turbulence.
Turbulence statistics is always time-irreversible.Weak turbulence is scale invariant and universal (determined solely by flux value). It is generally not conformal invariant.Strong turbulence:Direct cascades often have symmetries broken by pumping (scale invariance, isotropy) non-restored in the inertial interval. In other words, statistics at however small scales is sensitive to other characteristics of pumping besides the flux. That can be alternatively explained in terms of either structures or statistical conservation laws (zero modes). Inverse cascades in systems with strong interaction may be not only scale invariant but also conformal invariant.For Lagrangian invariants, we are able to explain the difference between direct and inverse cascades in terms of separation or clustering of fluid particles. Generally, it seems natural that the statistics within the pumping correlation scale (direct cascade) is more sensitive to the details of the pumping statistics than the statistics at much larger scales (inverse cascade).
How decoupling depends on d?
Pressure is an intermittency killer Robert Kraichnan,
1991
It is again the problem of zero modes