On the decay of Burgers turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112097006241MaRDI QIDQ4377311zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 7 August 2000

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9709002

zbMATH Keywords

energy spectrum long-time behaviour Monte Carlo procedure unforced one-dimensional Burgers equation vanishing viscosity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

Abstract: This work is devoted to the decay ofrandom solutions of the unforced Burgers equation in one dimension in the limit of vanishing viscosity. The initial velocity is homogeneous and Gaussian with a spectrum proportional to

k^{n}

at small wavenumbers

k

and falling off quickly at large wavenumbers. In physical space, at sufficiently large distances, there is an ``outer region, where the velocity correlation function preserves exactly its initial form (a power law) when $n$ is not an even integer. When $1 < n < 2$ the spectrum, at long times, has three scaling regions : first, a $| k |^{n}$ region at very small $k$ ms1 with a time-independent constant, stemming from this outer region, in which the initial conditions are essentially frozen; second, a $k^{2}$ region at intermediate wavenumbers, related to a self-similarly evolving ``inner region in physical space and, finally, the usual

k^{- 2}

region, associated to the shocks. The switching from the

| k |^{n}

to the

k^{2}

region occurs around a wave number

k_{s} (t) p r o p t o t^{- 1 / [2 (2 - n)]}

, while the switching from

k^{2}

to

k^{- 2}

occurs around

k_{L} (t) p r o p t o t^{- 1 / 2}

(ignoring logarithmic corrections in both instances). The key element in the derivation of the results is an extension of the Kida (1979) log-corrected

1 / t

law for the energy decay when

n = 2

to the case of arbitrary integer or non-integer

n > 1

. A systematic derivation is given in which both the leading term and estimates of higher order corrections can be obtained. High-resolution numerical simulations are presented which support our findings.

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