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Small scale dynamics of isotropic viscoelastic turbulence

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The comparison of the results of direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence of Newtonian and viscoelastic fluid provides evidence that viscoelasticity modifies qualitatively the behavior of the smallest scales: we observe a power law in the far dissipation range of the fluid kinetic energy spectrum and we show that it is a robust feature, roughly independent of the large scale dynamics. A detailed analysis of the energy transfer shows that at these scales energy is injected into the fluid flow through polymer relaxation. It is further shown that a part of the total energy is transferred among scales through an interaction of the velocity field with the polymer field.
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hal-01516084 , version 1 (07-03-2018)

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Minh Quan Nguyen, Alexandre Delache, Serge Simoëns, Wouter J.T. Bos, Mahmoud El Hajem. Small scale dynamics of isotropic viscoelastic turbulence. Physical Review Fluids, 2016, 1 (8), pp.083301. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.083301⟩. ⟨hal-01516084⟩
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