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Logarithmic Correlation Functions in Two Dimensional Turbulence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We consider the correlation functions of two-dimensional turbulence in the presence and absence of a three-dimensional perturbation, by means of conformal field theory. In the persence of three dimensional perturbation, we show that in the strong coupling limit of a small scale random force, there is some logarithmic factor in the correlation functions of velocity stream functions. We show that the logarithmic conformal field theory c8,1c_{8,1} describes the 2D- turbulence both in the absence and the presence of the perturbation. We obtain the following energy spectrum E(k)k5.125ln(k)E(k) \sim k^{-5.125 } \ln(k ) for perturbed 2D - turbulence and E(k)k5ln(k)E(k) \sim k^{-5 } \ln(k ) for unperturbed turbulence. Recent numerical simulation and experimental results confirm our prediction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9606154,
  title  = {Logarithmic Correlation Functions in Two Dimensional Turbulence},
  author = {M. R. Rahimi Tabar and S. Rouhani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9606154},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages ,latex , no figures