Some statistical properties of the Burgers equation with white-noise initial velocity (Q2380402)

The author studies the one-dimensional Burgers equation in the inviscid limit for white noise initial velocity. Because Burgers equation describes the advection of the velocity field with a nonzero viscosity it is a very popular nonlinear evolution equation that is used in many physical problems. It can even be given in the cosmological context because the time \(t\) in this equation stands for the linear growing mode \(D_+(t)\) of the density fluctuations, \(x\) is a spatial coordinate that is comoving (it follows the uniform Hubble expansion), and the velocity \(v\) is the peculiar velocity with the Hubble expansion subtracted. This equation was also related to the power-law initial spectra (fractional Brownian motion cases), however the authors focused parallel to this case basing on the white noise case. They pay attention to the issues that arise in the hydrodynamical context showing explicit results for the distributions of velocity increments and density fluctuations. The paper consists of 8 sections and in Sect. 2 we have the initial conditions for white noise and the geometrical interpretation in terms of the Hopf-Cole (parabolas) solutions of the dynamics. Next section shows the Eulerian one- i.e. \(p_x(q)\), and two-point i.e. \(p_{x_1,x_2}(q_1,q_2)\) distributions with Lagrangian map for \(x\rightarrow q\). In the fourth section, basing on the results from the third one, we have the derivation of the distributions for inverse Lagrangian and velocity increment. Section 5 gives the distribution of the density within intervals of size \(x\) and two-point correlation with powers spectrum. In the next to last section we have the generalization of the results presented in the paper for other initial conditions and higher dimensions, however it is given by a heuristic approach. The paper is concluded in Section 8 where the belief that this article may prove useful to test approximation schemes devised to handle other initial conditions or closely related dynamics (Navier-Stokes turbulence, gravitational dynamics), where no exact results are available. In the paper there are also 3 appendixes.