We examine the statistics of active scalar fluctuations in high-Rayleigh number fingering convection with high-resolution three-dimensional numerical experiments. Marked non-Gaussian tails are found in the one-point distribution of buoyancy fluctuations. A modified theory based on an original approach by Yakhot (1989) is used to model the active scalar distributions as a function of the conditional expectation values of scalar dissipation and fluxes in the flow. Simple models for these two quantities highlight the role of blob-like coherent structures for scalar statistics in fingering convection. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Non-Gaussian buoyancy statistics in fingering convection / von Hardenberg, Jost; Paparella, Francesco. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS A. - ISSN 0375-9601. - 374:26(2010), pp. 2646-2653. [10.1016/j.physleta.2010.04.051]

Non-Gaussian buoyancy statistics in fingering convection

von Hardenberg, Jost;
2010

Abstract

We examine the statistics of active scalar fluctuations in high-Rayleigh number fingering convection with high-resolution three-dimensional numerical experiments. Marked non-Gaussian tails are found in the one-point distribution of buoyancy fluctuations. A modified theory based on an original approach by Yakhot (1989) is used to model the active scalar distributions as a function of the conditional expectation values of scalar dissipation and fluxes in the flow. Simple models for these two quantities highlight the role of blob-like coherent structures for scalar statistics in fingering convection. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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