Stretching of polymers and turbulence: Fokker Planck equation, special stochastic scaling limit and stationary law
The aim of this work is understanding the stretching mechanism of stochastic models of turbulence acting on a simple model of dilute polymers. We consider a turbulent model that is white noise in time and activates frequencies in a shell N ≤ |k| ≤ 2N and investigate the scaling limit as N → ∞, under suitable intensity assumption, such that the stretching term has a finite limit covariance. The polymer density equation, initially an SPDE, converges weakly to a limit deterministic equation with a new term. Stationary solutions can be computed and show power law decay in the polymer length.
Authors
- Yassine Tahraoui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-0272)
- Franco Flandoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2837-3784)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Differential Equations
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2025.113789
- Primary Topic
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00