Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis in Burgers turbulence.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.

Published: June 2008

By detailed analytical treatment of the shock dynamics in the Burgers turbulence with large scale forcing we calculate the velocity structure functions between pairs of points displaced both in time and space. Our analytical treatment verifies the so-called Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis without relying on any closure and under very general assumptions. We discuss the limitation of the hypothesis and show that it is valid up to time scales smaller than the correlation time scale of temporal velocity correlation function. We support the analytical calculation by performing numerical simulation of the periodically kicked Burgers equation.

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