Genericity of Alignment-Induced Self-Regularization from the 4/5 Law

Computational investigation of whether the limited regularity obtained for incompressible Navier-Stokes turbulence via Kolmogorov's 4/5 law under an alignment hypothesis holds generically.

Ensemble Results

Viscosity1/nuAlignmentBesov Seminorm4/5 Law RatioDissipation
0.011000.525 ± 0.0200.357 ± 0.036-0.672 ± 0.0750.150 ± 0.007
0.0052000.518 ± 0.0100.345 ± 0.024-0.630 ± 0.0760.153 ± 0.008
0.0025000.538 ± 0.0080.380 ± 0.029-0.720 ± 0.1040.158 ± 0.007
0.00110000.543 ± 0.0170.386 ± 0.029-0.680 ± 0.0760.171 ± 0.008
0.000520000.561 ± 0.0210.397 ± 0.020-0.719 ± 0.0650.173 ± 0.014

Alignment vs Reynolds Number

Besov Seminorm vs Reynolds Number

4/5 Law Compensated Ratio

Mean Dissipation Rate

Key Findings

Finding 1 - Alignment is Universal: Mean alignment exceeds the isotropic baseline of 0.5 at all Reynolds numbers, increasing from 0.525 to 0.561. Small ensemble variance confirms this is a property of the turbulent attractor.
Finding 2 - Besov Regularity is Bounded: The B^{1/3}_{3,infty} seminorm ranges from 0.345 to 0.397 with sub-logarithmic growth, consistent with uniform boundedness in the inviscid limit.
Finding 3 - 4/5 Law Converges: The compensated structure function ratio approaches -0.800 with decreasing variance, supporting the regularization mechanism.