Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-24-2001

Publication Title

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We evaluate numerically the velocity field distributions produced by a bounded, two-dimensional fluid model consisting of a collection of parallel ideal line vortices. We sample at many spatial points inside a rigid circular boundary. We focus on “nearest-neighbor” contributions that result from vortices that fall (randomly) very close to the spatial points where the velocity is being sampled. We confirm that these events lead to a non-Gaussian high-velocity “tail” on an otherwise Gaussian distribution function for the Eulerian velocity field. We also investigate the behavior of distributions that do not have equilibrium mean-field probability distributions that are uniform inside the circle, but instead correspond to both higher and lower mean-field energies than those associated with the uniform vorticity distribution. We find substantial differences between these and the uniform case.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056311

Original Citation

Levi TS, Montgomery DC. Velocity field distributions due to ideal line vortices. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 May;63(5 Pt 2):056311. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056311. Epub 2001 Apr 24. PMID: 11415010.

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