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Intermittency of Burgers' Turbulence

chao-dyn 2015-06-24 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Theory Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We consider the tails of probability density function (PDF) for the velocity that satisfies Burgers equation driven by a Gaussian large-scale force. The saddle-point approximation is employed in the path integral so that the calculation of the PDF tails boils down to finding the special field-force configuration (instanton) that realizes the extremum of probability. For the PDFs of velocity and it's derivatives u(k)=xkuu^{(k)} = \partial_x^ku, the general formula is found: lnP(u(k))(u(k)/(Re)k)3/(k+1)ln P (|u^{(k)}|) \propto -(|u^{(k)}|/(Re)^k)^{3/(k+1)}.

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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9609005,
  title  = {Intermittency of Burgers' Turbulence},
  author = {E. Balkovsky and G. Falkovich and I. Kolokolov and V. Lebedev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9609005},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, RevTeX 3.0, short version of chao-dyn/9603015, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett