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Statistically self-similar mixing by Gaussian random fields

Probability 2023-09-28 v1 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

We study the passive transport of a scalar field by a spatially smooth but white-in-time incompressible Gaussian random velocity field on Rd\mathbb{R}^d. If the velocity field uu is homogeneous, isotropic, and statistically self-similar, we derive an exact formula which captures non-diffusive mixing. For zero diffusivity, the formula takes the shape of E θtH˙s2=eλd,stθ0H˙s2\mathbb{E}\ \| \theta_t \|_{\dot{H}^{-s}}^2 = \mathrm{e}^{-\lambda_{d,s} t} \| \theta_0 \|_{\dot{H}^{-s}}^2 with any s(0,d/2)s\in (0,d/2) and λd,sD1:=s(λ1D12s)\frac{\lambda_{d,s}}{D_1}:= s(\frac{\lambda_{1}}{D_1}-2s) where λ1/D1=d\lambda_1/D_1 = d is the top Lyapunov exponent associated to the random Lagrangian flow generated by uu and D1 D_1 is small-scale shear rate of the velocity. Moreover, the mixing is shown to hold uniformly\textit{uniformly} in diffusivity.

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@article{arxiv.2309.15744,
  title  = {Statistically self-similar mixing by Gaussian random fields},
  author = {Michele Coti Zelati and Theodore D. Drivas and Rishabh S. Gvalani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15744},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure

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