Published June 23, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

The influence of helicity on scaling regimes in the extended Kraichnan model

  • 1. Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 04001, Kosice (Slovakia)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Genova, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Genova Section, via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genova (Italy)

Description

We have investigated the advection of a passive scalar quantity by an incompressible helical turbulent flow in the framework of an extended Kraichnan model. Turbulent fluctuations of velocity field are assumed to have the Gaussian statistics with zero mean and defined noise with finite time correlation. Actual calculations have been done up to two-loop approximation in the frame of field-theoretic renormalization group approach. It turned out that space parity violation (helicity) of a turbulent environment does not affect anomalous scaling which is a peculiar attribute of the corresponding model without helicity. However, stability of asymptotic regimes, where anomalous scaling takes place, strongly depends on the amount of helicity. Moreover, helicity gives rise to the turbulent diffusivity which has been calculated in the one-loop approximation

Availability note (English)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
25
Journal Page Range
p. 7913-7926
ISSN
0305-4470
CODEN
JPHAC5

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38001213
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ADVECTION; APPROXIMATIONS; CORRELATIONS; GROUP THEORY; HELICITY; NOISE; PARITY; RENORMALIZATION; SCALARS; TURBULENT FLOW
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; FLUID FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES