Theoretical Dimension and the Complexity of Simulated Turbulence

Abstract A global quantity called “theoretical dimension” is defined which is roughly proportional to the number of coherent structures that expert observers count in simulated two-dimensional turbulent viscous flows. This paper reviews some previously published computations of this quantity for a few academic examples and for a small number of flows computed from random initial vorticity fields.

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