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Quantum Solution of Classical Turbulence. Decaying Energy Spectrum
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A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Migdal, A. (2024). Quantum solution of classical turbulence: Decaying energy spectrum. Physics of Fluids, 36(9). Migdal, A. (2024). Quantum solution of classical turbulence: Decaying energy spectrum. Physics of Fluids, 36(9).
Abstract
This paper brings to fruition recently found \cite{migdal2023exact} exact reduction of decaying turbulence in the Navier-Stokes equation in $3 + 1$ dimensions to a Number Theory problem of finding the statistical limit of the Euler ensemble. We reformulate the Euler ensemble as a Markov chain and show the equivalence of this formulation to the \textbf{quantum} statistical theory of $N$ fermions on a ring, with an external field related to the random fractions of $\pi$. We find the solution of this system in the turbulent limit $N\to \infty, \nu \to 0$ in terms of a complex trajectory (instanton) providing a saddle point to the path integral over the density of these fermions. This results in an analytic formula for the observable correlation function of vorticity in wavevector space. This is a full solution of decaying turbulence from the first principle without approximations or fitted parameters. The energy spectrum decays as $k^{-\frac{7}{2}}$. We compute resulting integrals in \Mathematica{} and present effective index $n(t) = -t\partial_t \log E $ for the energy decay as a function of time Fig.\ref{fig::NPlot}. The asymptotic value of the effective index in energy decay $n(\infty) = \frac{7}{4}$, but the universal function $n(t)$ is neither constant nor linear.
Keywords
Turbulence; fractal; anomalous dissipation; fixed point; velocity circulation; loop equations; Euler Phi; prime numbers; Fermi particles; instanton
Subject
Physical Sciences, Fluids and Plasmas Physics
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