Gravitomagnetic relativistic effects on turbulence

TL;DR

This paper explores how gravitomagnetic fields influence turbulence, showing they can simplify turbulent flows and alter classical turbulence scaling laws through theoretical analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a formulation for fluid dynamics under gravitomagnetic effects and demonstrates their impact on turbulence complexity and scaling behaviors.

Findings

Gravitomagnetic effects reduce turbulence vortical structures.

They can lead to the extinction of turbulence in large volumes.

Departures from Kolmogorov scaling are explained by the analysis.

Abstract

The dynamics of fluid-matter under the influence of gravitomagnetic fields are formulated and solved for the case of fully developed turbulence. Gravitomagnetic effects reduce the vortical complexity and nonlinearity of turbulence, even leading to its extinction within large volumes, and generate departures from Kolmogorov turbulence scalings, that are explained via a combination of dimensional and exact analysis arguments.