Sailing the deep blue sea of decaying Burgers turbulence

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/28/301zbMATH Open0962.76038arXivchao-dyn/9812018OpenAlexW2058545387MaRDI QIDQ4947673FDOQ4947673

Authors: Michel Bauer, Denis Bernard 

Publication date: 25 April 2000

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

Abstract: We study Lagrangian trajectories and scalar transport statistics in decaying Burgers turbulence. We choose velocity fields, solutions of the inviscid Burgers equation, whose probability distributions are specified by Kida's statistics. They are time-correlated, not time-reversal invariant and not Gaussian. We discuss in some details the effect of shocks on trajectories and transport equations. We derive the inviscid limit of these equations using a formalism of operators localized on shocks. We compute the probability distribution functions of the trajectories although they do not define Markov processes. As physically expected, these trajectories are statistically well-defined but collapse with probability one at infinite time. We point out that the advected scalars enjoy inverse energy cascades. We also make a few comments on the connection between our computations and persistence problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9812018

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zbMATH Keywords

probability distribution functionsinviscid Burgers equationLagrangian trajectoriesdecaying Burgers turbulenceadvected scalarseffect of shocksinverse energy cascadesKida's statisticsscalar transport statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55)

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