Nonstationary distributions of wave intensities in wave turbulence

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA7DBAMaRDI QIDQ5363399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yeontaek Choi, Sanggyu Jo, Young-Sam Kwon, Sergey Nazarenko

Publication date 6 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03820

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian distributionprobability density functionwave-kinetic equationnon-stationary wave spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We establish that, in absence of wave breaking, the wave statistics asymptotes to a Gaussian distribution in forced-dissipated wave systems that approach a steady state. Also, in non-stationary systems, if the statistics is Gaussian initially, it will remain Gaussian at any time. Generally, the statistics that is not Gaussian initially will remain non-Gaussian over the characteristic nonlinear time of the wave spectrum. In freely decaying wave turbulence, substantial deviations from Gaussianity may persist infinitely long.

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