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Critical dimension for hydrodynamic turbulence

Statistical Mechanics 2024-08-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Hydrodynamic turbulence exhibits nonequilibrium behaviour with k5/3k^{-5/3} energy spectrum, and equilibrium behaviour with kd1k^{d-1} energy spectrum and zero viscosity, where dd is the space dimension. Using recursive renormalization group {in Craya-Herring basis}, we show that the nonequilibrium solution is valid only for d<6d < 6, whereas equilibrium solution with zero viscosity is the only solution for d>6d>6. Thus, d=6d=6 is the critical dimension for hydrodynamic turbulence. In addition, we show that the energy flux changes sign from positive to negative near d=2.15d=2.15. We also compute the energy flux and Kolmogorov's constants for various dd's, and observe that our results are in good agreement with past numerical results.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.07573,
  title  = {Critical dimension for hydrodynamic turbulence},
  author = {Mahendra K. Verma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07573},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Accepted in Phys. Rev. E. 15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.05207

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