Phase diagram for turbulent transport: Sampling drift, eddy diffusivity and variational principles

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00150-5zbMATH Open0955.76040arXivphysics/9906018MaRDI QIDQ1961665FDOQ1961665

Albert Fannjiang

Publication date: 27 February 2001

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the long-time, large scale transport in a three-parameter family of isotropic, incompressible velocity fields with power-law spectra. Scaling law for transport is characterized by the scaling exponent $q$ and the Hurst exponent $H$, as functions of the parameters. The parameter space is divided into regimes of scaling laws of different {em functional forms} of the scaling exponent and the Hurst exponent. We present the full three-dimensional phase diagram. The limiting process is one of three kinds: Brownian motion ($H=1/2$), persistent fractional Brownian motions ($1/2<H<1$) and regular (or smooth) motion (H=1). We discover that a critical wave number divides the infrared cutoffs into three categories, critical, subcritical and supercritical; they give rise to different scaling laws and phase diagrams. We introduce the notions of sampling drift and eddy diffusivity, and formulate variational principles to estimate the eddy diffusivity. We show that fractional Brownian motions result from a dominant sampling drift.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9906018

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionHurst exponentfractional Brownian motionsvariational principlesscaling exponentparameter spacescaling lawseddy diffusivitycritical wave numberpower-law spectrasampling driftlong-time large-scale transportthree-dimensional phase diagramthree-parameter isotropic incompressible Gaussian velocity fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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