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In this work, the intermittency and power-law similarity of the Liutex vector in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence and a turbulent channel are explored. First, we found that the Liutex vector is more intermittent than the vorticity vector in the considered turbulent flows, which indicates that an iso-surface of a Liutex magnitude with an appropriate threshold could capture the major rotating motions or vortical motions of the flow. Second, the three-dimensional energy spectrums of velocity, vorticity (enstrophy spectrum) and the Liutex vector in homogeneous isotropic turbulence are shown to exhibit power laws of \u22125\/3, 1\/3 and 1\/3 in the inertial subrange, respectively, whilst the Liutex energy spectrum particularly satisfies an additional \u221210\/3 power law in the viscous subrange. This viscous similarity of the Liutex vector is the only power law that survived from the wall presence and is argued to originate from the fact that the Liutex vector represents the rigid part of fluid motion and is free from any shear contamination. The existence of such a viscous similarity law indicates a certain coherence of the small scales of turbulence and could possibly help understand and model turbulence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e25010025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,27]],"date-time":"2022-12-27T03:05:56Z","timestamp":1672110356000},"page":"25","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Liutex-Represented Vortex Spectrum in Turbulence"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Bowen","family":"Yan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yiqian","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematical Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chaoqun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"035103","DOI":"10.1063\/1.5023001","article-title":"Rortex-A new vortex vector definition and vorticity tensor and vector decompositions","volume":"30","author":"Liu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Phys. 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