Related papers: A note on Burgers' turbulence
We complete the program outlined in the paper of the author with A. Migdal and sum up exactly all the fluctuations around the instanton solution of the randomly large scale driven Burgers equation. We choose the force correlation function…
We consider perturbations of the non-unitary minimal model solutions of two-dimensional conformal turbulence proposed by Polyakov. Demanding the absence of non-integrable singularities in the resulting theories leads to constraints on the…
We investigate local symmetries of the Burgers turbulence driven by an external random force. By using a path integral formalism, we show that the Jacobian has physics in it; local symmetries and an anomaly. We also study a local invariance…
In this work, we calculate the self-similar longitudinal velocity correlation function and the statistical properties of velocity difference using the results of the Lyapunov analysis of the fully developed isotropic homogeneous turbulence…
We consider the one-dimensional Burgers equation randomly stirred at large scales by a Gaussian short-time correlated force. Using the method of dissipative anomalies, we obtain velocity and velocity-difference probability density functions…
In the limit $d\to\infty$ the role of pressure gradients and that of the incompressibility constraint decreases, thus blurring the difference between transverse and longitudinal velocity correlation functions. Using Polyakov's expression…
This paper studies the 1D pressureless turbulence (the Burgers equation). It shows that reliable numerics in this problem is very easy to produce if one properly discretizes the Burgers equation. The numerics it presents confirms the 7/2…
In his first 1941 paper Kolmogorov assumed that the velocity has increments which are homogeneous and independent of the velocity at a suitable reference point. This assumption of local homogeneity is consistent with the nonlinear dynamics…
We find the exact N-point generating function in Polyakov's approach to Burgers turbulence.
We calculate the coefficients of the operator product expansion (OPE), in Polyakov's approach for Burgers turbulence. We show that the OPE has to be generalized and it is shown that the extra term gives us the instanton solution (shock…
Polyakov recently showed how to use conformal field theory to describe two-dimensional turbulence. Here we construct an infinite hierarchy of solutions, both for the constant enstrophy flux cascade, and the constant energy flux cascade. We…
In this survey, we review the results on turbulence for the generalised Burgers equation on the circle: u_t+f'(u)u_x=\nu u_{xx}+\eta,\ x \in S^1=\R/\Z, obtained by A.Biryuk and the author in \cite{Bir01,BorK,BorW,BorD}. Here, f is smooth…
The dynamics of velocity fluctuations, governed by the one-dimensional Burgers equation, driven by a white-in-time random force with the spatial spectrum $\overline{|f(k)|^2}\proptok^{-1}$, is considered. High-resolution numerical…
We present a generalized picture of intermittency in turbulence that is based on the theory of stochastic processes. To this end, we rely on the experimentally and numerically verified finding by R.~Friedrich and J.~Peinke [Phys. Rev. Lett.…
The present work studies the isotropic and homogeneous turbulence for incompressible fluids through a specific Lyapunov analysis, assuming that the turbulence is due to the bifurcations associated to the velocity field. The analysis…
Talk presented at the International Conference on Mathematical Physics (Brisbane 1997). This is an introduction to recent work on the scaling and intermittency in forced Burgers turbulence. The mapping between Burgers' equation and the…
Turbulence is an ubiquitous phenomenon in natural and industrial flows. Since the celebrated work of Kolmogorov in 1941, understanding the statistical properties of fully developed turbulence has remained a major quest. In particular,…
This is an idiosyncratic survey of statistical fluid mechanics centering on the Hopf functional differential equation. Using the Burgers equation for illustration we review several functional integration approaches to theory of turbulence.…
By tracking the divergence of two initially close trajectories in phase space in an Eulerian approach to forced turbulence, the relation between the maximal Lyapunov exponent $\lambda$, and the Reynolds number $Re$ is measured using direct…
We investigate theoretically and numerically the effect of polymer additives on two-dimensional turbulence by means of a viscoelastic model. We provide compelling evidence that at vanishingly small concentrations, such that the polymers are…