Large-scale features of rotating forced turbulence.
Large-scale features of a randomly isotropically forced incompressible and unbounded rotating fluid are examined in perturbation theory. At first order in both the random force amplitude and the angular velocity, we find two types of modifications to the fluid equation of motion. The first correction transforms the molecular shear viscosity into a (rotation independent) effective viscosity. The second perturbative correction leads to a new large scale nondissipative force proportional to the fluid angular velocity in the slow rotation regime. This effective force does no net work and alters the dispersion relation of inertial waves propagating in the fluid. Both dynamically generated corrections can be identified with certain components of the most general axisymmetric "viscosity tensor" for a Newtonian fluid.
Gaite
José
J
Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Hochberg
David
D
Molina-París
Carmen
C