Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6931435 | Journal of Computational Physics | 2015 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The computation of the topological invariants of the velocity gradient tensor and of their conditional mean trajectories in incompressible turbulent flows is revisited. It is argued that probability conservation requires that the conditional mean trajectories should be closed when a statistically stationary wall-bounded or periodic domain is considered, and this is confirmed numerically for a turbulent channel. It is argued that previous reports of inward spiraling of the conditional trajectories are either due to incomplete statistics in inhomogeneous flows or to numerical errors.
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Authors
Adrián Lozano-Durán, Markus Holzner, Javier Jiménez,