Scaling laws for the multidimensional Burgers equation with quadratic external potential (Q2433948)

Starting from the multidimensional Burgers equation \(\partial \mathbf{u} /\partial t+(\mathbf{u}\cdot \nabla )\mathbf{u}=\mu \Delta \mathbf{u}+2\mu \nabla \Phi \), posed in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\times (0,+\infty )\), and introducing the Hopf-Cole transformation \(\mathbf{u}=-2\mu \nabla \ln h\), the authors obtain the linear heat equation \(\partial h/\partial t=\mu \Delta h-\Phi h\), posed in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\times (0,+\infty )\). Here \(\Phi \) is chosen in a quadratic way: \(\Phi (x)=a+b\left\| x\right\| ^{2}\), with \(b>0\). The solution \(\mathbf{u}\) of Burgers' equation starts at \(t=0\) from the initial condition \(\nabla U\), where \(U\) is the initial velocity potential, which is supposed to be an homogeneous and isotropic random field. The main result of the paper describes the asymptotic behaviour of the solution of Burgers' problem when the parameter \(\varepsilon \), associated to the scaling \( t\mapsto \ln (t/\varepsilon )/\omega \), \(x\mapsto \mathbf{x}t/\varepsilon ^{2}\), \(0<\varepsilon <t\), goes to 0. The authors first compute the expression of \(h\), hence of \(\mathbf{u}\). Notice that the above scaling is different from the one which is usually considered within this context.