Geometric properties of passive random advection
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 62 (1) , 545-552
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.62.545
Abstract
Geometric properties of a random Gaussian short-time correlated velocity field are studied by considering the statistics of a passively advected metric tensor. That describes the universal properties of the fluctuations of tensor objects frozen into the fluid and passively advected by it. The problem of the one-point statistics of covariant and contravariant tensors is solved exactly, provided that the advected fields do not reach diffusive scales, which would break the symmetry of the problem.Keywords
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