L. Machiels et Mo. Deville, NUMERICAL-SIMULATION OF RANDOMLY FORCED TURBULENT FLOWS, Journal of computational physics (Print), 145(1), 1998, pp. 246-279
Several authors have proposed studying randomly forced turbulent hows
(e.g., E. A. Novikov, Soviet Physics JETP, 20(5), 1290 1965). More rec
ently, theoretical investigations (e.g., renormalization group) have f
ocused on whim-noise forced Navier-Stokes equations (V. Yakhot and S.
A. Orszag, J.Sci.Comput. 1(1), 3 1986), The present article aims to pr
ovide an appropriate numerical method for the simulation of randomly f
orced turbulent systems. The spatial discretization is based on the cl
assical Fourier spectral method. The time integration is performed by
a second-order Runge-Kutta scheme. The consistency of an extension of
this scheme to treat additive noise stochastic differential equations
is proved. The random number generator is based on lagged Fibonacci se
ries. Results are presented for two randomly forced problems: the Burg
ers and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a white-noise
in time forcing term characterized by a power-law correlation function
in spectral space. A variety of statistics are computed for both prob
lems, including the structure functions, The third-order structure fun
ctions are compared with their exact expressions in the inertial subra
nge. The influence of the dissipation mechanism (viscous or hypervisco
us) on the inertial subrange is discussed. In particular, probability
density functions of velocity increments are computed for the Navier-S
tokes simulation, Finally, for both Burgers and Navier-Stokes problems
, our results support the view that random sweeping is the dominant ef
fect of the large-scale motion on the small-scales. (C) 1998 Academic
Press.