Fluctuation dynamics in randomly advected Navier-Stokes equations below critical scaling
Abstract
We study randomly advected incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, where the advecting field is a mean-zero, divergence-free, space-time stationary velocity field with smooth order-one correlations. We introduce a two-parameter family of models in which the advection is accelerated on a fast temporal scale and has spatial correlation length ; the critical regime corresponds to the natural parabolic scaling of the Navier-Stokes equation. In the full subcritical regime , we prove a law of large numbers in dimensions : the solutions converge to a deterministic Navier--Stokes system with an enhanced diffusion coefficient given by a Green-Kubo formula. In two space dimensions, under the slightly stronger assumption for some , we identify the leading-order fluctuations: after subtracting deterministic macroscopic corrections satisfying a nonlinear system of Navier-Stokes type, the rescaled fluctuations converge to a Gaussian field solving a linearized Navier-Stokes equation driven by multiplicative space-time white noise.
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@article{arxiv.2607.16132,
title = {Fluctuation dynamics in randomly advected Navier-Stokes equations below critical scaling},
author = {Arnaud Debussche and Martina Hofmanová},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16132},
year = {2026}
}