Scalar turbulence

Boris I. Shraiman and Eric D. Siggia
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Boris I. Shraiman: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Eric D. Siggia: Center for Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6787, 639-646

Abstract: Abstract The advection of a passive substance by a turbulent flow is important in many natural and engineering settings. The concentration of such a substance can exhibit complex dynamic behaviour that shows many phenomenological parallels with the behaviour of the turbulent velocity field. Yet the statistical properties of this so-called ‘passive scalar’ turbulence are decoupled from those of the underlying velocity field. Passive scalar turbulence has recently yielded to mathematical analysis, and such progress may ultimately lead to a better understanding of the still intractable problem of fluid turbulence itself.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35015000

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