TRACKING OF VORTICAL STRUCTURES IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL DECAYING HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE

Waleed Abdel-Kareem ()
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Waleed Abdel-Kareem: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Suez, Egypt;

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2011, vol. 22, issue 12, 1373-1391

Abstract: Direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence with a resolution of 1283is carried out using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The aim of this paper is to investigate the statistical characteristics of the obtained turbulent flow field and the behavior of the vortical structures. Most of the LBM simulations of decaying turbulence were mainly focused on the statistical results of the velocity field, however the characteristics of the coherent vortices and their time evolution are ignored. In this paper, the statistical properties of the velocity field as well as the extraction and tracking processes of individual vortices are considered. Results show that the present simulation could recover important features of turbulence such as isotropy, skewness, energy spectrum and elongated vortical structures. A vortex ring is identified in the flow field which can be considered as a sign for the existence of vortex rings in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Forward and reverse tracking of individual vortical structures shows that vortex rings can be generated from the interaction and the overlapping of vortex tubes.

Keywords: Lattice Boltzmann method; vortical structures; extraction and tracking of vortices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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