Triad interactions in the dissipation range

Abstract

Nonlocality of the triad interactions in the dissipation range of developed turbulence is investigated by numerical simulation and the quasi-normal theories. It is found that the energy transfer is dominated by nonlocal triad interactions over the wavenumber range 0.1 is less than k/k(sub d) is less than 4, where k(sub d) is the Kolmogorov wave number. The nonlocality of the interaction has a close relation with the power of an algebraic prefactor of the exponential decay of the energy spectrum in the far-dissipation range.