Cascades of temperature and entropy fluctuations in three-dimensional compressible turbulence

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Abstract

Cascades of temperature and entropy fluctuations are studied by numerical simulations of stationary three-dimensional compressible turbulence. The -5/3 scaling behavior is identified for the fluctuation spectra of temperature and entropy, with the Obukhov-Corrsin constants close to that of a passive scalar spectrum. The average subgrid-scale (SGS) fluxes of temperature and entropy normalized by the total dissipation rates are close to 1 in the inertial range. The average SGS fluxes conditioned on the filtered velocity divergence exhibit the scale-invariant property in the inertial range. Moreover, strong compression motions enhance the direct SGS fluxes of temperature and entropy from large scales to small scales.

*This work was supported by NSFC Grant Nos. 11702127, 91752201, and 11672123; the Thousand Talents Plan for Young Professionals; Grant No. JCYJ20170412151759222; Grant No. 2016QNRC001.

Presenters

  • Jianchun Wang

    • Southern University of Science and Technology, China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China

Authors

  • Jianchun Wang

    • Southern University of Science and Technology, China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China
  • Minping Wan

    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China
  • Song Chen

    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
  • Chenyue Xie

    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China
  • Lian-Ping Wang

    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
  • Shiyi Chen

    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems and Center for Applie
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Syste
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Turbulence
    • Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Comple