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| Titre: | The Necessity of Optimal Perturbations |
| Auteur(s): | DelSole, T. |
| mot-clé ASFA: | Perturbations |
| Date de publication: | 2-mai-2003 |
| Résumé: | An optimal perturbation is an initial condition that optimizes amplitude growth
over a prescribed time in a linear system. Previous studies have argued that optimal
perturbations play an important role in turbulence. Two basic questions related to this
theory are whether optimal perturbations necessarily grow in all turbulent background
flows, and whether the turbulent flow necessarily excites optimal perturbations at the rate
required to account for the observed eddy variance. This paper shows that both
questions can be answered in the affirmative for statistically steady turbulence. The
argument put forward here is independent of any closure theory of turbulence. In
essence, the result follows from the fact that statistical equilibrium and conservation of
energy require the presence of optimal perturbations (with respect to the energy norm). |
| URI/URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/505 |
| Collection(s) : | Miscellaneous
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