On Batchelor passive advection by a finite-time correlated random velocity field

Details On Batchelor passive advection by a finite-time correlated random velocity field On Batchelor passive advection by a finite-time correlated random velocity field

2000-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006267v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure

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The Batchelor passive advection is an advection by a smooth velocity field. If the velocity field is a delta-correlated in time random Gaussian process, then the problem is reduced to quantum mechanics of fluctuating velocity gradient u'(t). For the finite-time correlated velocity field, such a reduction does not exist. To illustrate this point, the second moment of a passively advected magnetic field is considered, and the stochastic calculus is used to find finite-time corrections to its growth rate. The growth rate depends on large scale properties of the velocity field. Moreover, the problem is not universal with respect to the short-time regularization: different regularizations give different answers for the growth rate.

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