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Stochastic geometry of turbulence

Stochastic geometry of turbulence. Gregory Falkovich Weizmann Institute. D. Bernard , G. Boffetta, Celani, S . Musacchio , K. Turitsyn,M . Vucelja. APS meeting, 28 February 2012. Fractals, multi-fractals and God knows what. depends neither on q nor on r - fractal.

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Stochastic geometry of turbulence

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  1. Stochastic geometry of turbulence Gregory Falkovich Weizmann Institute D. Bernard, G. Boffetta, Celani, S. Musacchio, K. Turitsyn,M. Vucelja APS meeting, 28 February 2012

  2. Fractals, multi-fractals and God knows what depends neither on q nor on r - fractal depends on q – multi-fractal depends on r - God knows what

  3. Turbulence is a state of a physical system with many degrees of freedom deviated far from equilibrium. It is irregular both in time and in space. Energy cascade and Kolmogorov scaling Transported scalar (Lagrangian invariant)

  4. Full level set is fractal with D = 2 - ζ What about a single isoline? Random Gaussian Surfaces

  5. Schramm-Loewner Evolution - SLE

  6. What it has to do with turbulence?

  7. C=ξ(t)‏

  8. Euler equation in 2d describes transport of vorticity

  9. Family of transport-type equations m=2 Navier-Stokes m=1 Surface quasi-geostrophic model, m=-2 Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model Electrostatic analogy: Coulomb law in d=4-m dimensions

  10. This system describes geodesics on an infinitely-dimensional Riemannian manifold of the area-preserving diffeomorfisms. On a torus,

  11. Add force and dissipation to provide for turbulence (*)‏ lhs of (*) conserves

  12. Kraichnan’s double cascade picture Q P k pumping

  13. Inverse Q-cascade ζ m

  14. Small-scale forcing – inverse cascades

  15. Boundary • Frontier • Cut points perimeter P Bernard, Boffetta, Celani &GF, Nature Physics 2006, PRL2007

  16. Scalar exponents ζ of the scalar field (circles) and stream function (triangles), and universality class κ for different m ζ κ

  17. Inverse cascade versus Direct cascade

  18. M Vucelja , G Falkovich & K S Turitsyn Fractal iso-contours of passive scalar in two-dimensional smooth random flows. J Stat Phys 147 : 424–435 (2012)

  19. Smooth velocity, locally anisotropic contours

  20. Conclusion Within experimental accuracy, isolines of advected quantities are conformal invariant (SLE) in turbulent inverse cascades. Why? Vorticity isolines in the direct cascade are multi-fractal. Isolines of passive scalar in the Batchelor regime continue to change on a time scale vastly exceeding the saturation time of the bulk scalar field. Why?

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