Statistics of active and passive scalars in one-dimensional compressible turbulence

Statistics of the active temperature and passive concentration advected by the one-dimensional stationary compressible turbulence at Re_{λ}=2.56×10^{6} and M_{t}=1.0 is investigated by using direct numerical simulation with all-scale forcing. It is observed that the signal of velocity, as well as the two scalars, is full of small-scale sawtooth structures. The temperature spectrum corresponds to G(k)∝k^{-5/3}, whereas the concentration spectrum acts as a double power law of H(k)∝k^{-5/3} and H(k)∝k^{-7/3}. The probability distribution functions (PDFs) for the two scalar increments show that both δT and δC are strongly intermittent at small separation distance r and gradually approach the Gaussian distribution as r increases. Simultaneously, the exponent values of the PDF tails for the large negative scalar gradients are q_{θ}=-4.0 and q_{ζ}=-3.0, respectively. A single power-law region of finite width is identified in the structure function (SF) of δT; however, in the SF of δC, there are two regions with the exponents taken as a local minimum and a local maximum. As for the scalings of the two SFs, they are close to the Burgers and Obukhov-Corrsin scalings, respectively. Moreover, the negative filtered flux at large scales and the time-increasing total variance give evidences to the existence of an inverse cascade of the passive concentration, which is induced by the implosive collapse in the Lagrangian trajectories.