Viscous instanton for Burgers' turbulence

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Abstract: We consider the tails of probability density functions (PDF) for different characteristics of velocity that satisfies Burgers equation driven by a large-scale force. The saddle-point approximation is employed in the path integral so that the calculation of the PDF tails boils down to finding the special field-force configuration (instanton) that realizes the extremum of probability. We calculate high moments of the velocity gradient partialxu and find out that they correspond to the PDF with ln[calP(partialxu)]propto(partialxu/mRe)3/2 where mRe is the Reynolds number. That stretched exponential form is valid for negative partialxu with the modulus much larger than its root-mean-square (rms) value. The respective tail of PDF for negative velocity differences w is steeper than Gaussian, lncalP(w)sim(w/umrms)3, as well as single-point velocity PDF lncalP(u)sim(|u|/umrms)3. For high velocity derivatives u(k)=partialxku, the general formula is found: lncalP(|u(k)|)propto(|u(k)|/mRek)3/(k+1).









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