Analytic study of shell models of turbulence

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2006.05.015MaRDI QIDQ2507797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris Levant, E. S. Titi, P. Constantin

Publication date 5 October 2006

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0511075

dynamic models Galerkin method Navier-Stokes equations shell models

Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Nonlinear differential equations in abstract spaces (34G20) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05)

Abstract: In this paper we study analytically the viscous `sabra' shell model of energy turbulent cascade. We prove the global regularity of solutions and show that the shell model has finitely many asymptotic degrees of freedom, specifically: a finite dimensional global attractor and globally invariant inertial manifolds. Moreover, we establish the existence of exponentially decaying energy dissipation range for the sufficiently smooth forcing.

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The authors study analytically the viscous `sabra' shell model of the energy turbulent cascade \[ {du_n\over dt}= i(ak_{n+1} u_{n+2} u^*_{n+1}+ bk_n u_{n+1} u^*_{n-1}- ck_{n-1} u_{n-1} u_{n-2})- \nu k^2_n u_n+ f_n, \] respectively the functional form \[ {du\over dt}+ \nu Au+ B(u, u)= f,\quad u(0)= u^{in} \] in the Hilbert space \(l^2\) (sequence space over \(\mathbb{C}\)), \(A\) is a linear and \(B\) a bilinear suitably defined operator. They prove by using Galerkin methods the existence of weak solutions, smooth dependence on the initial data and uniqueness, and they give appropriate assumptions for the force \(f\) (exponential decay) that the solution \(u\) belongs to a certain Gevrey class of regularity. In the last sections they prove (under certain assumptions) that the shell model has a finite dimensional attractor (they give an estimate for the Hausdorff and the fractal dimension) and they further show that the model possesses a finite dimensional inertial manifold (which is unknown for the Navier-Stokes equation). The authors discuss their assumptions and their results and compare the results with those of the Navier-Stokes equation and other similar problems.

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