Viscous instanton for Burgers' turbulence

DOI10.1142/S0217979297001568zbMATH Open1229.76084arXivchao-dyn/9603015MaRDI QIDQ3106715FDOQ3106715

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Publication date: 29 December 2011

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $partia{l}_{x}u$ and find out that they correspond to the PDF with $ln[calP(partia{l}_{x}u)]propto-(-partia{l}_{x}u/mRe{)}^{3/2}$ where $mRe$ is the Reynolds number. That stretched exponential form is valid for negative $partia{l}_{x}u$ 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, $lncalP(w)sim-(w/u_{mrms}{)}^3$, as well as single-point velocity PDF $lncalP(u)sim-(|u|/u_{mrms}{)}^3$. For high velocity derivatives $u^{(k)}=partia{l}_x^{k}u$, the general formula is found: $lncalP(|u^{(k)}|)propto-(|u^{(k)}|/{mRe}^k{)}^{3/(k+1)}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9603015

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Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Turbulence (76F99)

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