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Singh RK, Perlekar P, Mitra D, Rosti ME. Intermittency in the not-so-smooth elastic turbulence. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4070. [PMID: 38802336 PMCID: PMC11130217 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48460-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Elastic turbulence is the chaotic fluid motion resulting from elastic instabilities due to the addition of polymers in small concentrations at very small Reynolds ( Re ) numbers. Our direct numerical simulations show that elastic turbulence, though a low Re phenomenon, has more in common with classical, Newtonian turbulence than previously thought. In particular, we find power-law spectra for kinetic energy E(k) ~ k-4 and polymeric energy Ep(k) ~ k-3/2, independent of the Deborah (De) number. This is further supported by calculation of scale-by-scale energy budget which shows a balance between the viscous term and the polymeric term in the momentum equation. In real space, as expected, the velocity field is smooth, i.e., the velocity difference across a length scale r, δu ~ r but, crucially, with a non-trivial sub-leading contribution r3/2 which we extract by using the second difference of velocity. The structure functions of second difference of velocity up to order 6 show clear evidence of intermittency/multifractality. We provide additional evidence in support of this intermittent nature by calculating moments of rate of dissipation of kinetic energy averaged over a ball of radius r, εr, from which we compute the multifractal spectrum.
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- Rahul K Singh
- Complex Fluids and Flows Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
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- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Gopanpally, Hyderabad, India
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- Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Complex Fluids and Flows Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan.
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Khurshid S, Donzis DA, Sreenivasan KR. Emergence of universal scaling in isotropic turbulence. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:045102. [PMID: 37198849 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.045102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Universal properties of turbulence have been associated traditionally with very high Reynolds numbers, but recent work has shown that the onset of the power laws in derivative statistics occurs at modest microscale Reynolds numbers of the order of 10, with the corresponding exponents being consistent with those for the inertial range structure functions at very high Reynolds numbers. In this paper we use well-resolved direct numerical simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence to establish this result for a range of initial conditions with different forcing mechanisms. We also show that the moments of transverse velocity gradients possess larger scaling exponents than those of the longitudinal moments, confirming past results that the former are more intermittent than the latter.
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- Sualeh Khurshid
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA and Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3141, USA
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3141, USA
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- Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Department of physics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York, University New York, New York 11201, USA
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Iyer KP, Bharadwaj SS, Sreenivasan KR. The area rule for circulation in three-dimensional turbulence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2114679118. [PMID: 34663734 PMCID: PMC8639329 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114679118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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An important idea underlying a plausible dynamical theory of circulation in three-dimensional turbulence is the so-called area rule, according to which the probability density function (PDF) of the circulation around closed loops depends only on the minimal area of the loop, not its shape. We assess the robustness of the area rule, for both planar and nonplanar loops, using high-resolution data from direct numerical simulations. For planar loops, the circulation moments for rectangular shapes match those for the square with only small differences, these differences being larger when the aspect ratio is farther from unity and when the moment order increases. The differences do not exceed about 5% for any condition examined here. The aspect ratio dependence observed for the second-order moment is indistinguishable from results for the Gaussian random field (GRF) with the same two-point correlation function (for which the results are order-independent by construction). When normalized by the SD of the PDF, the aspect ratio dependence is even smaller ( < 2%) but does not vanish unlike for the GRF. We obtain circulation statistics around minimal area loops in three dimensions and compare them to those of a planar loop circumscribing equivalent areas, and we find that circulation statistics match in the two cases only when normalized by an internal variable such as the SD. This work highlights the hitherto unknown connection between minimal surfaces and turbulence.
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- Kartik P Iyer
- Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
- Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
- Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 11201
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- Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 11201;
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012
- Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10012
- Center for Space Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 129188, United Arab Emirates
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Buzzicotti M, Tauzin G. Inertial range statistics of the entropic lattice Boltzmann method in three-dimensional turbulence. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:015302. [PMID: 34412200 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.015302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We present a quantitative analysis of the inertial range statistics produced by entropic lattice Boltzmann method (ELBM) in the context of three-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. ELBM is a promising mesoscopic model particularly interesting for the study of fully developed turbulent flows because of its intrinsic scalability and its unconditional stability. In the hydrodynamic limit, the ELBM is equivalent to the Navier-Stokes equations with an extra eddy viscosity term. From this macroscopic formulation, we have derived a new hydrodynamical model that can be implemented as a large-eddy simulation closure. This model is not positive definite, hence, able to reproduce backscatter events of energy transferred from the subgrid to the resolved scales. A statistical comparison of both mesoscopic and macroscopic entropic models based on the ELBM approach is presented and validated against fully resolved direct numerical simulations. Besides, we provide a second comparison of the ELBM with respect to the well-known Smagorinsky closure. We found that ELBM is able to extend the energy spectrum scaling range preserving at the same time the simulation stability. Concerning the statistics of higher order, inertial range observables, ELBM accuracy is shown to be comparable with other approaches such as Smagorinsky model.
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- Michele Buzzicotti
- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.,Chair of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstrasse 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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Iyer KP, Bewley GP, Biferale L, Sreenivasan KR, Yeung PK. Oscillations Modulating Power Law Exponents in Isotropic Turbulence: Comparison of Experiments with Simulations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:254501. [PMID: 34241532 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.254501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Inertial-range features of turbulence are investigated using data from experimental measurements of grid turbulence and direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence simulated in a periodic box, both at the Taylor-scale Reynolds number R_{λ}∼1000. In particular, oscillations modulating the power-law scaling in the inertial range are examined for structure functions up to sixth-order moments. The oscillations in exponent ratios decrease with increasing sample size in simulations, although in experiments they survive at a low value of 4 parts in 1000 even after massive averaging. The two datasets are consistent in their intermittent character but differ in small but observable respects. Neither the scaling exponents themselves nor all the viscous effects are consistently reproduced by existing models of intermittency.
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- Kartik P Iyer
- Department of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, New York, New York 11201, USA
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- Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, New York, New York 11201, USA
- Department of Physics and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York 11201, USA
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- Schools of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Fouxon I, Lee C. Large deviations, singularity, and lognormality of energy dissipation in turbulence. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:061101. [PMID: 32688541 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.061101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study implications of the assumption of power-law dependence of moments of energy dissipation in turbulence on the Reynolds number Re, holding due to intermittency. We demonstrate that at Re→∞ the dissipation's logarithm divided by lnRe converges with probability one to a negative constant. This implies that the dissipation is singular in the limit, as is known phenomenologically. The proof uses a large deviations function, whose existence is implied by the power-law assumption, and which provides the general asymptotic form of the dissipation's distribution. A similar function exists for vorticity and for velocity differences where it proves the moments representation of the multifractal model (MF). Then we observe that derivative of the scaling exponents of the dissipation, considered as a function of the order of the moment, is small at the origin. Thus the variation with the order is slow and can be described by a quadratic function. Indeed, the quadratic function, which corresponds to log-normal statistics, fits the data. Moreover, combining the lognormal scaling with the MF we derive a formula for the anomalous scaling exponents of turbulence which also fits the data. Thus lognormality, not to be confused with the Kolmogorov (1962) assumption of lognormal dissipation in the inertial range, when used in conjunction with the MF provides a concise way to get all scaling exponents of turbulence available at present.
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- Itzhak Fouxon
- Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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Buzzicotti M, Biferale L, Toschi F. Statistical Properties of Turbulence in the Presence of a Smart Small-Scale Control. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:084504. [PMID: 32167371 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.084504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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By means of high-resolution numerical simulations, we compare the statistical properties of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence to those of the Navier-Stokes equation where small-scale vortex filaments are strongly depleted, thanks to a nonlinear extra viscosity acting preferentially on high vorticity regions. We show that the presence of such smart small-scale drag can strongly reduce intermittency and non-Gaussian fluctuations. Our results pave the way towards a deeper understanding on the fundamental role of degrees of freedom in turbulence as well as on the impact of (pseudo)coherent structures on the statistical small-scale properties. Our work can be seen as a first attempt to develop smart-Lagrangian forcing or drag mechanisms to control turbulence.
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- Michele Buzzicotti
- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 00185 Rome, Italy
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In this work, the two-point probability density function (PDF) for the velocity field of isotropic turbulence is modeled using the kappa distribution and the concept of superstatistics. The PDF consists of a symmetric and an anti-symmetric part, whose symmetry properties follow from the reflection symmetry of isotropic turbulence, and the associated non-trivial conditions are established. The symmetric part is modeled by the kappa distribution. The anti-symmetric part, constructed in the context of superstatistics, is a novel function whose simplest form (called “the minimal model”) is solely dictated by the symmetry conditions. We obtain that the ensemble of eddies of size up to a given length r has a temperature parameter given by the second order structure function and a kappa-index related to the second and the third order structure functions. The latter relationship depends on the inverse temperature parameter (gamma) distribution of the superstatistics and it is not specific to the minimal model. Comparison with data from direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulence shows that our model is applicable within the dissipation subrange of scales. Also, the derived PDF of the velocity gradient shows excellent agreement with the DNS in six orders of magnitude. Future developments, in the context of superstatistics, are also discussed.
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In many physical systems, the governing equations are known with high confidence, but direct numerical solution is prohibitively expensive. Often this situation is alleviated by writing effective equations to approximate dynamics below the grid scale. This process is often impossible to perform analytically and is often ad hoc. Here we propose data-driven discretization, a method that uses machine learning to systematically derive discretizations for continuous physical systems. On a series of model problems, data-driven discretization gives accurate solutions with a dramatic drop in required resolution. The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length- and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features in the solution. The only recourse is to use approximate coarse-grained representations, which aim to accurately represent long-wavelength dynamics while properly accounting for unresolved small-scale physics. Deriving such coarse-grained equations is notoriously difficult and often ad hoc. Here we introduce data-driven discretization, a method for learning optimized approximations to PDEs based on actual solutions to the known underlying equations. Our approach uses neural networks to estimate spatial derivatives, which are optimized end to end to best satisfy the equations on a low-resolution grid. The resulting numerical methods are remarkably accurate, allowing us to integrate in time a collection of nonlinear equations in 1 spatial dimension at resolutions 4× to 8× coarser than is possible with standard finite-difference methods.
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Biferale L, Bonaccorso F, Buzzicotti M, Iyer KP. Self-Similar Subgrid-Scale Models for Inertial Range Turbulence and Accurate Measurements of Intermittency. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:014503. [PMID: 31386411 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.014503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2019] [Revised: 03/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A class of spectral subgrid models based on a self-similar and reversible closure is studied with the aim to minimize the impact of subgrid scales on the inertial range of fully developed turbulence. In this manner, we improve the scale extension where anomalous exponents are measured by roughly 1 order of magnitude when compared to direct numerical simulations or to other popular subgrid closures at the same resolution. We find a first indication that intermittency for high-order moments is not captured by many of the popular phenomenological models developed so far.
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- Luca Biferale
- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, New York, New York 11201, USA
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Zhai XM, Sreenivasan KR, Yeung PK. Cancellation exponents in isotropic turbulence and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:023102. [PMID: 30934280 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.023102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Small-scale characteristics of turbulence such as velocity gradients and vorticity fluctuate rapidly in magnitude and oscillate in sign. Much work exists on the characterization of magnitude variations, but far less on sign oscillations. While in homogeneous turbulence averages performed on large scales tend to zero because of the oscillatory character, those performed on increasingly smaller scales will vary with the averaging scale in some characteristic way. This characteristic variation at high Reynolds numbers is captured by the so-called cancellation exponent, which measures how local averages tend to cancel out as the averaging scale increases, in space or time. Past experimental work suggests that the exponents in turbulence depend on whether one considers quantities in full three-dimensional (3D) space or uses their one- or two-dimensional cuts. We compute cancellation exponents of vorticity and longitudinal as well as transverse velocity gradients in isotropic turbulence at Taylor-scale Reynolds numbers up to 1300 on 8192^{3} grids. The 2D cuts yield the same exponents as those for full 3D, while the 1D cuts yield smaller numbers, suggesting that the results in higher dimensions are more reliable. We make the case that the presence of vortical filaments in isotropic turbulence leads to this conclusion. This effect is particularly conspicuous in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, where an increased degree of spatial coherence develops along the direction of an imposed magnetic field.
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- X M Zhai
- School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Physics, and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA
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- Schools of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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Friedrich J, Margazoglou G, Biferale L, Grauer R. Multiscale velocity correlations in turbulence and Burgers turbulence: Fusion rules, Markov processes in scale, and multifractal predictions. Phys Rev E 2018; 98:023104. [PMID: 30253572 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.98.023104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We compare different approaches towards an effective description of multiscale velocity field correlations in turbulence. Predictions made by the operator-product expansion, the so-called fusion rules, are placed in juxtaposition to an approach that interprets the turbulent energy cascade in terms of a Markov process of velocity increments in scale. We explicitly show that the fusion rules are a direct consequence of the Markov property provided that the structure functions exhibit scaling in the inertial range. Furthermore, the limit case of joint velocity gradient and velocity increment statistics is discussed and put into the context of the notion of dissipative anomaly. We generalize a prediction made by the multifractal model derived by Benzi et al. [R. Benzi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3244 (1998)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3244] to correlations among inertial range velocity increment and velocity gradients of any order. We show that for the case of squared velocity gradients such a relation can be derived from first principles in the case of Burgers equations. Our results are benchmarked by intensive direct numerical simulations of Burgers turbulence.
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- Jan Friedrich
- Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy.,Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, Cyprus Institute, 20 Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Physics and INFN, University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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