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1Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Newtonian turbulence is characterized by interscale transport of energy from the forcing scales to the dissipation scales. In elastoinertial turbulence, this interscale energy flux is weakened. Here, we explain this phenomenon by numerically showing that elastoinertial energy is predominantly dissipated through polymer chain relaxation. As opposed to Newtonian dissipation, chain relaxation is neither restricted to small nor to large scales but instead it is effective on all the scales. Chain relaxation does not therefore require interscale transport of elastoinertial energy from the forcing scales to the dissipation scales.
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