Variable enstrophy flux and energy spectrum in two-dimensional turbulence with Ekman friction

Verma, Mahendra K. (2012) Variable enstrophy flux and energy spectrum in two-dimensional turbulence with Ekman friction EPL: Europhysics Letters, 98 (1). p. 14003. ISSN 0295-5075

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/14003

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/14003

Abstract

Experiments and numerical simulations reveal that in the forward cascade regime, the energy spectrum of two-dimensional turbulence with Ekman friction deviates from Kraichnan's prediction of $k^{-3}$ power spectrum. In this letter we explain this observation using an analytic model based on variable enstrophy flux arising due to Ekman friction. We derive an expression for the enstrophy flux which exhibits a logarithmic dependence in the inertial range for the Ekman-friction dominated flows. The energy spectrum obtained using this enstrophy flux shows a power law scaling for large Reynolds number and small Ekman friction, but has an exponential behaviour for large Ekman friction and relatively small Reynolds number.

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