English

On anomalous diffusion in the Kraichnan model and correlated-in-time variants

Mathematical Physics 2024-06-04 v2 Analysis of PDEs math.MP Probability

Abstract

We provide a concise PDE-based proof of anomalous diffusion in the Kraichan model -- a stochastic, white-in-time model of passive scalar turbulence. That is, we show an exponential rate of L2L^2 decay in expectation of a passive scalar advected by a certain white-in-time, correlated-in-space, divergence-free Gaussian field, uniform in the initial data and the diffusivity of the passive scalar. Additionally, we provide examples of correlated-in-time versions of the Kraichnan model which fail to exhibit anomalous diffusion despite their (formal) white-in-time limits exhibiting anomalous diffusion. As part of this analysis, we prove that anomalous diffusion of a scalar advected by some flow implies non-uniqueness of the ODE trajectories of that flow.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.12147,
  title  = {On anomalous diffusion in the Kraichnan model and correlated-in-time variants},
  author = {Keefer Rowan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12147},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

40 pages, this version fixes typo T^2 vs. T^d in statement of corollary 1.4