The instanton method and its numerical implementation in fluid mechanics

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/33/333001zbMATH Open1327.76076arXiv1506.08745OpenAlexW3105123535WikidataQ62570025 ScholiaQ62570025MaRDI QIDQ3448391FDOQ3448391

Authors: Tobias Grafke, R. Grauer, Tobias Schäfer 

Publication date: 23 October 2015

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A precise characterization of structures occurring in turbulent fluid flows at high Reynolds numbers is one of the last open problems of classical physics. In this review we discuss recent developments related to the application of instanton methods to turbulence. Instantons are saddle point configurations of the underlying path integrals. They are equivalent to minimizers of the related Freidlin-Wentzell action and known to be able to characterize rare events in such systems. While there is an impressive body of work concerning their analytical description, this review focuses on the question on how to compute these minimizers numerically. In a short introduction we present the relevant mathematical and physical background before we discuss the stochastic Burgers equation in detail. We present algorithms to compute instantons numerically by an efficient solution of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations. A second focus is the discussion of a recently developed numerical filtering technique that allows to extract instantons from direct numerical simulations. In the following we present modifications of the algorithms to make them efficient when applied to two- or three-dimensional fluid dynamical problems. We illustrate these ideas using the two-dimensional Burgers equation and the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08745

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonsnumerical methodsfluid dynamicsturbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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