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Nonlinear Dynamics And Anisotropic Structure Of Rotating Sheared Turbulence, Abdelaziz Salhi, Frank G. Jacobitz, Kai Schneider, Claude Cambon
Nonlinear Dynamics And Anisotropic Structure Of Rotating Sheared Turbulence, Abdelaziz Salhi, Frank G. Jacobitz, Kai Schneider, Claude Cambon
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Homogeneous turbulence in rotating shear flows is studied by means of pseudospectral direct numerical simulation and analytical spectral linear theory (SLT). The ratio of the Coriolis parameter to shear rate is varied over a wide range by changing the rotation strength, while a constant moderate shear rate is used to enable significant contributions to the nonlinear interscale energy transfer and to the nonlinear intercomponental redistribution terms. In the destabilized and neutral cases, in the sense of kinetic energy evolution, nonlinearity cannot saturate the growth of the largest scales. It permits the smallest scale to stabilize by a scale-by-scale quasibalance between …