Regeneration cycle and the covariant Lyapunov vectors in a minimal wall turbulence
Regeneration cycle and the covariant Lyapunov vectors in a minimal wall turbulence
复制标题
最小壁湍流中的再生循环和协变李雅普诺夫向量
DOI:
10.1103/physreve.92.023022
复制
发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
and Michio Yamada
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Masanobu Inubushi;Shin-ichi Takehiro;and Michio Yamada
Considering a wall turbulence as a chaotic dynamical system, we study regeneration cycles in a minimal wall turbulence from the viewpoint of orbital instability by employing the covariant Lyapunov analysis developed by [F. Ginelli Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 130601 (2007)PRLTAOPRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.99.130601]. We divide the regeneration cycle into two phases and characterize them with the local Lyapunov exponents and the covariant Lyapunov vectors of the Navier-Stokes turbulence. In particular, we show numerically that phase (i) is dominated by instabilities related to the sinuous mode and the streamwise vorticity, and there is no instability in phase (ii). Furthermore, we discuss a mechanism of the regeneration cycle, making use of an energy budget analysis.