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Anomalous scaling in the model of turbulent advection of a vector field

L. Ts. Adzhemyan, S. V. Novikov

Saint-Petersburg State University

Abstract: We consider the model of turbulent advection of a passive vector field $\varphi$ by a two-dimensional random velocity field uncorrelated in time and having Gaussian statistics with a powerlike correlator. The renormalization group and operator product expansion methods show that the asymptotic form of the structure functions of the $\varphi$ field in the inertial range is determined by the fluctuations of the energy dissipation rate. The dependence of the asymptotic form on the external turbulence scale is essential and has a powerlike form (anomalous scaling). The corresponding exponents are determined by the spectrum of the anomalous dimension matrices of operator families consisting of gradients of $\varphi$. We find a basis constructed from powers of the dissipation and enstrophy operators in which these matrices have a triangular form in all orders of the perturbation theory. In the two-loop approximation, we evaluate the anomalous-scaling exponents for the structure functions of an arbitrary order.

Keywords: turbulence, passive admixture, anomalous scaling, renormalization group.

Received: 01.05.2005

DOI: 10.4213/tmf2048

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2006, 146:3, 393–410

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