title: Statistical conservation laws in turbulent transport.
abstract: We address the statistical theory of fields that are transported by a turbulent velocity field, both in forced and in unforced (decaying) experiments. With very few provisos on the transporting velocity field, correlation functions of the transported field in the forced case are dominated by statistically preserved structures. In decaying experiments we identify infinitely many statistical constants of the motion, which are obtained by projecting the decaying correlation functions on the statistically preserved functions. We exemplify these ideas and provide numerical evidence using a simple model of turbulent transport. This example is chosen for its lack of Lagrangian structure, to stress the generality of the ideas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Arad
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Biferale
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celani
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Procaccia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vergassola