Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1705103 | Applied Mathematical Modelling | 2012 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Exact expressions for the finite size Lyapunov exponent λ(δ) are found and analyzed for several idealized models of turbulence in 1D and 2D. Among them are a random walk with discrete time and continuously distributed jumps and an isotropic Brownian flow in 2D also known as the Kraichnan flow. For the former a surprising fact is a δ−1 scaling for intermediate values of δ in contrast to δ−2 well known for a random walk in continuous time (Brownian flow) and for a simple random walk in discrete time. For the Kraichnan flow an exact relation is established between the scaling of λ(δ) and the scaling of relative dispersion in time.
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Authors
Leonid I. Piterbarg,