Universal decay of scalar turbulence
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The asymptotic decay of passive scalar fields is solved analytically for the Kraichnan model, where the velocity has a short correlation time. At long times, two universality classes are found, both characterized by a distribution of the scalar -- generally non-Gaussian -- with global self-similar evolution in time. Analogous behavior is found numerically with a more realistic flow resulting from an inverse energy cascade.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0010011,
title = {Universal decay of scalar turbulence},
author = {M. Chaves and G. Eyink and U. Frisch and M. Vergassola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0010011},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 Postscript figures, submitted to PRL