This is to inform you that there will be a seminar on Tuesday 16th of January given by Guillaume Costa.
Speaker: Guillaume Costa (Université Paris-Saclay)
Title: Simulations of Reversible Navier-Stokes equation on logarithmic lattices
h: 14.00
Room: Aula Fisica della Materia (Department of Physics UTV)
Abstract: "We study the three-dimensional Reversible Navier-Stokes equations first introduced by Gallavotti [1] with conserved enstrophy, and later by Shukla [2] in which the energy is kept constant by adjusting the viscosity over time. We perform numerical simulations of these equations using a new framework called log-lattices, to reach extremely large resolutions at a moderate numerical cost. This technique allows us to explore regimes of parameters that were out of reach of the previous direct numerical simulations [2]. Using the non-dimensional forcing as a control parameter, and the square root of enstrophy as the order parameter, we confirm the existence of a second order phase transition well described by a mean field Landau theory. The log-lattices framework allows us to probe the impact of the resolution, highlighting an imperfect transition at small resolutions with exponents differing from the mean field predictions (Fig. 1(a)). Our findings are in qualitative agreement with predictions of a 1D non-linear diffusive model, the reversible Leith model of turbulence.
In addition, we analyze the Gallavotti conjecture [1], stating an equivalence of ensemble between NSE and it sreversible counterpart for local observable. Under such conjecture, the macroscopic quantities of the irreversible system (NSE) could accurately be described by reversible equations (RNS) (Fig. 1(b)).
