Large-eddy simulations of fluid and

magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

using renormalized parameters

 

MAHENDRA K VERMA and SHISHIR KUMAR

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, India

E-mail: mkv@iitk.ac.in

 

Abstract. In this paper a procedure for large-eddy simulation (LES) has been devised

for fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in Fourier space using the renormalized

parameters. The parameters calculated using field theory have been taken from recent

papers by Verma [1,2]. We have carried out LES on 64$^3$ grid. These results match quite

well with direct numerical simulations of 128$^3$. We show that proper choice of parameter

is necessary in LES.

 

Keywords. Turbulence; large-eddy simulations.

 

PACS Nos 47.27.Eq; 47.65.+a; 11.10.Gh