Long-range dynamic correlations in a compressible viscous fluid confined in a circular tube.
A set of simplified one-dimensional hydrodynamic equations proposed for the description of transient small amplitude flow of a compressible viscous fluid in a linear channel is tested by comparison with exact results for a circular tube obtained from the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. There is a qualitative agreement between the approximate and exact results, but for the simplified calculation the amplitude of the algebraic long-time tail is a factor of 2 too small.
Institut für Theoretische Physik A, RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany. ufelder@physik.rwth-aachen.de
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