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dc.contributor.authorTran, Chuong V.
dc.contributor.authorYu, Xinwei
dc.contributor.authorDritschel, David G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-11T22:30:02Z
dc.date.available2020-12-11T22:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-25
dc.identifier270749656
dc.identifier83ea54b7-3ee1-4a12-8a81-075f5961273c
dc.identifier85099907189
dc.identifier000611234100001
dc.identifier.citationTran , C V , Yu , X & Dritschel , D G 2021 , ' Velocity-pressure correlation in Navier-Stokes flows and the problem of global regularity ' , Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 911 , A18 . https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.1033en
dc.identifier.issn0022-1120
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-6489-3395/work/88267423
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1790-8280/work/88268348
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21136
dc.descriptionFunding: Yu is supported by an NSERC Discovery grant.en
dc.description.abstractIncompressible fluid flows are characterised by high correlations between low pressure and high velocity and vorticity. The velocity-pressure correlation is an immediate consequence of fluid acceleration towards low pressure regions. On the other hand, fluid converging to a low pressure centre is driven sideways by a resistance due to incompressibility, giving rise to the formation of a strong vortex, hence the vorticity-pressure correlation. Meanwhile, the formation of such a vortex effectively shields the low pressure centre from incoming energetic fluid. As a result, a local pressure minimum can usually be found at the centre of a vortex where the vorticity is greatest but the velocity is relatively low,hence the misalignment of local pressure minima and velocity maxima. For Navier--Stokes flows, this misalignment has profound implications on extreme momentum growth and maintenance of regularity. This study examines the role of the velocity-pressure correlation on the problem of Navier--Stokes global regularity. On the basis of estimates for flows locally satisfying the critical scaling of the Navier--Stokes system, a qualitative theory of this correlation is considered. The theory appears to be readily quantified, advanced and tested by theoretical, mathematical and numerical methods. Regularity criteria depending on the degree of the velocity-pressure correlation are presented and discussed in light of the above theory. The result suggests that as long as global pressure minimum (or minima) and velocity maximum (or maxima) are mutually exclusive, then regularity is likely to persist. This is the first result that makes use of an explicit measure of the velocity-pressure correlation as a key factor in the maintenance of regularity or development of singularity.
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dc.format.extent433071
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Fluid Mechanicsen
dc.subjectNavier-Stokes equationsen
dc.subjectGlobal regularityen
dc.subjectVelocity-pressure correlationen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleVelocity-pressure correlation in Navier-Stokes flows and the problem of global regularityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Applied Mathematicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/jfm.2020.1033
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www-vortex.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~chuong/20200715correlation.pdfen


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