@article{ISI:000353915500007, abstract = {We carry out an extensive and high-resolution direct numerical simulation of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional fluid films with air-drag-induced friction and with polymer additives. Our study reveals that the polymers (a) reduce the total fluid energy, enstrophy, and palinstrophy; (b) modify the fluid energy spectrum in both inverse-and forward-cascade regimes; (c) reduce small-scale intermittency; (d) suppress regions of high vorticity and strain rate; and (e) stretch in strain-dominated regions. We compare our results with earlier experimental studies and propose new experiments.}, article-number = {033013}, author = {Gupta, Anupam and Perlekar, Prasad and Pandit, Rahul}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.91.033013}, eissn = {1550-2376}, issn = {1539-3755}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E}, month = {MAR 24}, number = {3}, orcid-numbers = {Gupta, Anupam/0000-0002-7335-0584}, researcherid-numbers = {Gupta, Anupam/N-4777-2018}, times-cited = {11}, title = {Two-dimensional homogeneous isotropic fluid turbulence with polymer additives}, unique-id = {ISI:000353915500007}, volume = {91}, year = {2015} }