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Abstract:
We investigate the conditional vorticity budget of fully developed
three-dimensional homogeneous isotropic turbulence with respect to
coherent and incoherent flow contributions. The coherent vorticity
extraction based on orthogonal wavelets allows to decompose the
vorticity field into coherent and incoherent contributions, of which the
latter are noise-like. The impact of the vortex structures observed in
fully developed turbulence on statistical balance equations is
quantified considering the conditional vorticity budget. The connection
between the basic structures present in the flow and their statistical
implications is thereby assessed. The results are compared to those
obtained for large-and small-scale contributions using a Fourier
decomposition, which reveals pronounced differences. (C) 2012 American
Institute of Physics. {[}http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3694807]