Intermittency and Regularity Issues in 3 D Navier-Stokes Turbulence
dc.contributor.author | Gibbon, J. D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Doering, Charles R. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T17:27:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T17:27:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Gibbon, J. D.; Doering, Charles R.; (2005). "Intermittency and Regularity Issues in 3 D Navier-Stokes Turbulence." Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 177(1): 115-150. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46170> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1432-0673 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-9527 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46170 | |
dc.description.abstract | Two related open problems in the theory of 3 D Navier-Stokes turbulence are discussed in this paper. The first is the phenomenon of intermittency in the dissipation field. Dissipation-range intermittency was first discovered experimentally by Batchelor and Townsend over fifty years ago. It is characterized by spatio-temporal binary behaviour in which long, quiescent periods in the velocity signal are interrupted by short, active ‘events’ during which there are violent fluctuations away from the average. The second and related problem is whether solutions of the 3 D Navier-Stokes equations develop finite time singularities during these events. This paper shows that Leray’s weak solutions of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations can have a binary character in time. The time-axis is split into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ intervals: on the ‘good’ intervals solutions are bounded and regular, whereas singularities are still possible within the ‘bad’ intervals. An estimate for the width of the latter is very small and decreases with increasing Reynolds number. It also decreases relative to the lengths of the good intervals as the Reynolds number increases. Within these ‘bad’ intervals, lower bounds on the local energy dissipation rate and other quantities, such as || u (·, t )|| ∞ and ||∇ u (·, t )|| ∞ , are very large, resulting in strong dynamics at sub-Kolmogorov scales. Intersections of bad intervals for n ≧1 are related to the potentially singular set in time. It is also proved that the Navier-Stokes equations are conditionally regular provided, in a given ‘bad’ interval, the energy has a lower bound that is decaying exponentially in time. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Mathematical and Computational Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Mechanics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Chaos, Neural Networks | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Fluids | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Physics | en_US |
dc.title | Intermittency and Regularity Issues in 3 D Navier-Stokes Turbulence | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mathematics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Mathematics & Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, , University of Michigan, , Ann Arbor, Michigan, MI, 48109-1109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Mathematics, , Imperial College London, , London, SW7 2AZ, UK | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46170/1/205_2005_Article_382.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00205-005-0382-5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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