THE ENERGY CASCADE OF TURBULENCE WITH QUASI-SELF-SIMILARITY

In this article, we investigate the energy cascade of three-dimensional turbulent flows, in which the break-up process of eddy is quasi-self-similar. Mathematically this kind of turbulence with quasi-self-similar structure eddies can be regarded as cookie-cutter system, and can be generated by self-similar iterated function system (IFS) with added nonlinear disturbance. Using Bowen's result, we can calculate the exponent of dissipative correlated function, dissipated velocity, energy spectrum supported on cookie-cutter system. The present results show the beta-model is feasible for this kind of quasi-self-similar turbulence.