Invariant measures for passive scalars in the small noise inviscid limit

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2758-9MaRDI QIDQ329586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacob Bedrossian, Michele Coti Zelati, N. Glatt-Holtz

Publication date 21 October 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07356

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs with measure (35R06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

Abstract: We consider a class of invariant measures for a passive scalar

f

driven by an incompressible velocity field

, on a

d

-dimensional periodic domain, satisfying

partial_t f + �oldsymbol{u} cdot abla f = 0, qquad f(0)=f_0.

The measures are obtained as limits of stochastic viscous perturbations. We prove that the span of the

H^{1}

eigenfunctions of the operator

contains the support of these measures. We also analyze several explicit examples: when

is a shear flow or a relaxation enhancing flow (a generalization of weakly mixing), we can characterize the limiting measure uniquely and compute its covariance structure. We also consider the case of two-dimensional cellular flows, for which further regularity properties of the functions in the support of the measure can be deduced. The main results are proved with the use of spectral theory results, in particular the RAGE theorem, which are used to characterize large classes of orbits of the inviscid problem that are growing in

H^{1}

.

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