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Does Yakhot's growth law for turbulent burning velocity hold?

Analysis of PDEs 2025-01-14 v2 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Using formal renormalization theory, Yakhot derived in ([32], 1988) an O(AlogA)O\left(\frac{A}{\sqrt{\log A}}\right) growth law of the turbulent flame speed with respect to large flow intensity AA based on the inviscid G-equation. Although this growth law is widely cited in combustion literature, there has been no rigorous mathematical discussion to date about its validity. As a first step towards unveiling the mystery, we prove that there is no intermediate growth law between O(AlogA)O\left(\frac{A}{\log A}\right) and O(A)O(A) for two dimensional incompressible Lipschitz continuous periodic flows with bounded swirl sizes. In particular, we do not assume the non-degeneracy of critical points. Additionally, other examples of flows with lower regularity, Lagrangian chaos, and related phenomena are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2412.18502,
  title  = {Does Yakhot's growth law for turbulent burning velocity hold?},
  author = {Wenjia Jing and Jack Xin and Yifeng Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18502},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

33 pages, 9 figures. A discussion on the linear growth law and the residual propagation phenomenon has been included in this revised version