Enhanced dissipation and Hörmander's hypoellipticity

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Abstract: We examine the phenomenon of enhanced dissipation from the perspective of H"ormander's classical theory of second order hypoelliptic operators [31]. Consider a passive scalar in a shear flow, whose evolution is described by the advection-diffusion equation [ partial_t f + b(y) partial_x f - u Delta f = 0 ext{ on } mathbb{T} imes (0,1) imes mathbb{R}_+ ] with periodic, Dirichlet, or Neumann conditions in y. We demonstrate that decay is enhanced on the timescale Tsimu(N+1)/(N+3), where N1 is the maximal order of vanishing of the derivative b(y) of the shear profile and N=0 for monotone shear flows. In the periodic setting, we recover the known timescale of Bedrossian and Coti Zelati [8]. Our results are new in the presence of boundaries.



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