Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8256356 Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 2015 6 Pages PDF
Abstract
We suggest a new derivation of a wave kinetic equation for the spectrum of the weakly nonlinear Schrödinger equation with stochastic forcing. The kinetic equation is obtained as a result of a double limiting procedure. Firstly, we consider the equation on a finite box with periodic boundary conditions and send the size of the nonlinearity and of the forcing to zero, while the time is correspondingly rescaled; then, the size of the box is sent to infinity (with a suitable rescaling of the solution). We report here the results of the first limiting procedure, analysed with full rigour in  [8], and show how the second limit leads to a kinetic equation for the spectrum, if some further hypotheses (commonly employed in the weak turbulence theory) are accepted. Finally we show how to derive from these equations the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra.
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