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Anisotropic homogeneous turbulence: hierarchy and intermittency of scaling exponents in the anisotropic sectors
1Dipartimento di Fisica and INFM, Università Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
We present the first measurements of anisotropic statistical fluctuations in perfectly homogeneous turbulent flows. We address both problems of intermittency in anisotropic sectors and hierarchical ordering of anisotropies on a direct numerical simulation of a three dimensional random Kolmogorov flow. We achieved an homogeneous and anisotropic statistical ensemble by randomly shifting the forcing phases. We observe high intermittency as a function of the order of the velocity correlation within each fixed anisotropic sector and a hierarchical organization of scaling exponents at fixed order of the velocity correlation at changing the anisotropic sector.
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