Scale locality of the energy cascade using real space quantities

NAK Doan, N Swaminathan, PA Davidson… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
The classical energy cascade in turbulence as described by Richardson and Kolmogorov is
predominantly a conjecture relying on the locality of interactions between scales of …

The temporal evolution of the energy flux across scales in homogeneous turbulence

JI Cardesa, A Vela-Martín, S Dong, J Jiménez - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A temporal study of energy transfer across length scales is performed in 3D numerical
simulations of homogeneous shear flow and isotropic turbulence. The average time taken by …

Is vortex stretching the main cause of the turbulent energy cascade?

M Carbone, AD Bragg - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
In three-dimensional turbulence there is on average a cascade of kinetic energy from the
largest to the smallest scales of the flow. While the dominant idea is that the cascade occurs …

Tensor geometry in the turbulent cascade

JG Ballouz, NT Ouellette - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
The defining characteristic of highly turbulent flows is the net directed transport of energy
from the injection scales to the dissipation scales. This cascade is typically described in …

Energy and enstrophy transfer in numerical simulations of two‐dimensional turbulence

ME Maltrud, GK Vallis - Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
Numerical simulations of statistically steady two‐dimensional (2‐D) turbulence are analyzed
to determine the relative importance of the types of wave‐vector triad interactions that …

On the simultaneous cascades of energy, helicity, and enstrophy in incompressible homogeneous turbulence

P Baj, FA Portela, DW Carter - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We characterise the incompressible turbulence cascade in terms of the concurrent inter-
scale and inter-space exchanges of the scale-by-scale energy, helicity and enstrophy. The …

On the role of vorticity stretching and strain self-amplification in the turbulence energy cascade

PL Johnson - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The tendency of turbulent flows to produce fine-scale motions from large-scale energy
injection is often viewed as a scale-wise cascade of kinetic energy driven by vorticity …

On the Lagrangian nature of the turbulence energy cascade

C Meneveau, TS Lund - Physics of Fluids, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The spatial and temporal evolution of turbulence kinetic energy at different scales is studied
using direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence. To explicitly follow the energy …

Small-scale energy cascade in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

MI Cheikh, J Chen, M Wei - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
The dynamics behind the multiscale energy transfer in turbulent flows is investigated in a
numerical simulation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT). The investigation relies on …

Effect of spatial dimension on a model of fluid turbulence

D Clark, RDJG Ho, A Berera - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
A numerical study of the-dimensional enstrophy analogue is derived and related to the
velocity derivative skewness. Comparisons are made to recent four-dimensional direct …