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Implications of Reynolds Averaging for Reactive Tracers in Turbulent Flows

Description: RANS simulations have been broadly used to investigate turbulence in the oceans and atmosphere. Within these environments there are a multitude of tracers undergoing reactions (eg. phytoplankton growth, chemical reactions). The distribution of these reactive tracers is strongly influenced by turbulent mixing. With a 50 member ensemble of two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor induced turbulent mixing, we show that the dynamics of a reactive tracer growing according to Fisher’s equation are poorly captured by the mean. A fluctuation-dependent sink introduced by Reynolds averaging Fisher’s equation transfers concentration from the mean to the fluctuations. We compare the dynamics of the reactive tracer with those of a passive tracer. The data herein provide all metrics used to demonstrate these results. The .mat files contain the data required to reproduce all figures and the .m files are plotting scripts. The data included herein was collected from an ensemble generated with SPINS (Spectral Parallel Incompressible Navier-Stokes Solver), which can be cloned from https://git.uwaterloo.ca/SPINS/SPINS_main

The data in this repository correspond to "Implications of Reynolds Averaging for Reactive Tracers in Turbulent Flows" by Legare and Stastna, 2023 (submitted). For detailed information on interpreting the data, see the associated submitted manuscript on Preprints: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11112036
Notes: Implications of Reynolds Averaging for Reactive Tracers in Turbulent Flows Publication: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11112036
Authors: Legare, Sierra; University of Waterloo; ORCID iD 0000-0003-2341-4305
Stastna, Marek; University of Waterloo; ORCID iD 0000-0003-1770-2044
Keywords: Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations
RANS Simulations
Reactive Tracer
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Spectral Parallel Incompressible Navier-Stokes Solver (SPINS)
SPINS
Field of Research: 
Mathematics and statistics
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Applied mathematics
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Computational fluid mechanics
Publication Date: 2023-09-22
Publisher: Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters (S.L.)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Discovery Grant; RGPIN-311844-37157
URI: https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0804
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Legare, S., Stastna, M. (2023). Implications of Reynolds Averaging for Reactive Tracers in Turbulent Flows. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0804