Passive sliders on growing surface and (anti-)advection in Burger's flows

DOI10.1007/S00023-003-0930-1MaRDI QIDQ1428797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barbara Drossel, Mehran Kardar

Publication date 18 May 2004

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204464

zbMATH Keywords

advectionBurgers equationcomputer simulationRenormalization groupturbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Turbulence (76F99) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

Abstract: We study the fluctuations of particles sliding on a stochastically growing surface. This problem can be mapped to motion of passive scalars in a randomly stirred Burger's flow. Renormalization group studies, simulations, and scaling arguments in one dimension, suggest a rich set of phenomena: If particles slide with the avalanche of growth sites (advection with the fluid), they tend to cluster and follow the surface dynamics. However, for particles sliding against the avalanche (anti-advection), we find slower diffusion dynamics, and density fluctuations with no simple relation to the underlying fluid, possibly with continuously varying exponents.

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