# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2014, 19(7): 2207-2225. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2207

## Going to new lengths: Studying the Navier--Stokes-$\alpha\beta$ equations using the strained spiral vortex model

 1 Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, TX77204-4006, United States 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States 4 Mathematical Soft Matter Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawal, 904-0495, Japan

Received  April 2013 Revised  January 2014 Published  August 2014

We study the effect of the length scales $\alpha$ and $\beta$ on the performance of the Navier--Stokes-$\alpha\beta$ equations for numerical simulations of turbulence over coarse discretizations. To this end, we rely on the strained spiral vortex model and take advantage of the dimensional reduction allowed by that model. In particular, the three-dimensional energy spectrum is reformulated so that it can be calculated from solutions of the two-dimensional unstrained Navier--Stokes-$\alpha\beta$ equations. A similarity theory for the spiral vortex model shows that the Navier--Stokes-$\alpha\beta$ model is better equipped than the Navier--Stokes-$\alpha$ model to capture smaller-scale behavior. Numerical experiments performed using a pseudo-spectral discretization along with the second-order Adams--Bashforth time-stepping algorithm yield results indicating that the fidelity of the energy spectrum in both the inertial and dissipation ranges is significantly improved for $\beta<\alpha$.
Citation: Tae-Yeon Kim, Xuemei Chen, John E. Dolbow, Eliot Fried. Going to new lengths: Studying the Navier--Stokes-$\alpha\beta$ equations using the strained spiral vortex model. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2014, 19 (7) : 2207-2225. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.2207
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