2024/04/29 by Rafail V. Abramov, Abramov, Rafail V.
Engineering · #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.18914
openalex publication_date 2024/04/29 · openalex created_date 2024/05/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In recent works, we proposed a theory of turbulence creation via the second coefficient of the virial expansion (i.e. the van der Waals effect). This theory relies, in part, on the empirically observed "equilibrated" behavior of pressure in compressible flows at low Mach numbers. However, a fundamental explanation for such a behavior of pressure does not currently exist, because the conventional kinetic theory leads instead to the adiabatic flow in the form of the usual compressible Euler or Navier-Stokes equations. To explain this behavior of pressure from the molecular-kinetic perspective, in the current work we introduce a novel correction into the pair correlation function in the closure of the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy. This correction matches the rate of change of the average distance between particles to the macroscopic compression or expansion rate of the gas. Remarkably, the novel correction introduces strong dissipation into the pressure equation at low Mach numbers, which stabilizes the pressure solution. At small scales, the novel dissipation effect manifests as the second viscosity in the momentum equation, which selectively suppresses the velocity divergence. As a result, the second viscosity governs the linear instability which creates turbulent dynamics, thereby setting the critical value of the Reynolds number. The ratio of the second and shear viscosities, together with the critical value of the Reynolds number, are proportional to the reciprocal of the packing fraction.