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Multiresolution analysis for 2D turbulence. II: A physical interpretation. (English) Zbl 1220.76040

Summary: Multiresolution methods such as the wavelet packets or the cosine packets are more and more used in physical applications and in particular in two-dimensional turbulence. The numerical results of the first part of this paper [ibid. 5, No. 3, 659–686 (2005; Zbl 1140.76350)] have shown that the wavelet packets decomposition is well suited for studying this kind of problem: the visualization of the vorticity field is better, without any artefacts, than the visualization with the cosine packets filtering. The current second part of the paper is devoted to the physical interpretation of the filtered fields obtained in the first part. Energy and enstrophy spectra as well as energy and enstrophy fluxes are computed to determine the role of each filtered field with respect to the cascades.

MSC:

76F65 Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence
76M25 Other numerical methods (fluid mechanics) (MSC2010)

Citations:

Zbl 1140.76350
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