The Batchelor--Howells--Townsend spectrum: three-dimensional case

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2022.133615MaRDI QIDQ6401599arXivFDO

Publication date 9 June 2022

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

Abstract: Given a velocity field

u (x, t)

, we consider the evolution of a passive tracer

h e t a

governed by

p a r t i a l_{t} h e t a + u c d o t a b l a h e t a = D e l t a h e t a + g

with time-independent source

g (x)

. When

| u |

is small in some sense, Batchelor, Howells and Townsend (1959, J. Fluid Mech. 5:134; henceforth BHT) predicted that the tracer spectrum scales as

| h e t a_{k} |^{2} p r o p t o | k |^{- 4} | u_{k} |^{2}

. Following our recent work for the two-dimensional case, in this paper we prove that the BHT scaling does hold probabilistically, asymptotically for large wavenumbers and for small enough random synthetic three-dimensional incompressible velocity fields

u (x, t)

. We also relaxed some assumptions on the velocity and tracer source, allowing finite variances for both and full power spectrum for the latter.

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