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better phrasing about Orszag's 2/3 rule
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How many wavenumber components we need to discard depends on the order of the nonlinearity. For
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quadradic nonlinearities, one would intuitively say that we need to discard the top-1/2 of the
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wavenumber components. However, Orszag (1972) pointed out that discarding only the top-1/3 of
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wavenumber components is enough. Actally, with Orszag's so-called 2/3-rule, aliasing still occurs,
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but only into wavenumbers that will be zero-ed out next time we dealias.
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wavenumber components. However, Orszag (1972) pointed out that simply only discarding the
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top-1/3 of wavenumber components is enough. Actally, with Orszag's so-called 2/3-rule for dealiasing,
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still some aliasing errors occur, but only into wavenumbers that will be zero-ed out next time
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we dealias.
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When constructing a `grid` we can specify the `aliased_fraction` parameter. By default, this is
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set to ``1/3``, appropriate for quadratic nonlinearities. Then `dealias!(fh, grid)` will zero-out

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