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Main Authors: Barlet, Antoine, Cheminet, Adam, Dubrulle, Bérengère, Mailybaev, Alexei A.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07581
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author Barlet, Antoine
Cheminet, Adam
Dubrulle, Bérengère
Mailybaev, Alexei A.
author_facet Barlet, Antoine
Cheminet, Adam
Dubrulle, Bérengère
Mailybaev, Alexei A.
contents Chaotic systems are characterised by exponential separation between close-by trajectories, which in particular leads to deterministic unpredictability over an infinite time-window. It is now believed, that such butterfly effect is not fully relevant to account for the type of randomness observed in turbulence. For example, tracers in homogeneous isotropic flows are observed to separate algebraically, following a universal cubic growth, independent from the initial separation. This regime, known as Richardon's regime, suggests that at the level of trajectories, and unlike in chaos theory, randomness may in fact emerge in finite-time. This phenomenon called 'spontaneous stochasticity' originates from the singular nature of the underlying dynamics, and provides a candidate framework for turbulent randomness and transport. While spontaneous stochasticity has been mathematically formalised in simplified turbulence models, a precise and systematic tool for quantifying the various facets of this phenomenon is to this day missing. In particular, it is still unclear whether chaos is important for that behaviour to appear. In this paper we introduce a 3d rough flow that can be tuned to present Lagrangian chaos. The flow is inspired by the Weierstrass function and is entitled 'the WABC model'. After analysing its properties, we define what is spontaneous stochasticity in this context. The provided formal definition is then adapted to better suit for numerical analysis. We present the results from Monte-Carlo simulations of Lagrangian particles in this flow. Within the numerical precision, we quantitatively observe the appearance of spontaneous stochasticity in this model. We investigate the influence of noise type and find that the observed spontaneous stochasticity does not depend on the chosen stochastic regularisations.
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spellingShingle Spontaneous stochasticity in a 3d Weierstrass-ABC flow
Barlet, Antoine
Cheminet, Adam
Dubrulle, Bérengère
Mailybaev, Alexei A.
Chaotic Dynamics
Chaotic systems are characterised by exponential separation between close-by trajectories, which in particular leads to deterministic unpredictability over an infinite time-window. It is now believed, that such butterfly effect is not fully relevant to account for the type of randomness observed in turbulence. For example, tracers in homogeneous isotropic flows are observed to separate algebraically, following a universal cubic growth, independent from the initial separation. This regime, known as Richardon's regime, suggests that at the level of trajectories, and unlike in chaos theory, randomness may in fact emerge in finite-time. This phenomenon called 'spontaneous stochasticity' originates from the singular nature of the underlying dynamics, and provides a candidate framework for turbulent randomness and transport. While spontaneous stochasticity has been mathematically formalised in simplified turbulence models, a precise and systematic tool for quantifying the various facets of this phenomenon is to this day missing. In particular, it is still unclear whether chaos is important for that behaviour to appear. In this paper we introduce a 3d rough flow that can be tuned to present Lagrangian chaos. The flow is inspired by the Weierstrass function and is entitled 'the WABC model'. After analysing its properties, we define what is spontaneous stochasticity in this context. The provided formal definition is then adapted to better suit for numerical analysis. We present the results from Monte-Carlo simulations of Lagrangian particles in this flow. Within the numerical precision, we quantitatively observe the appearance of spontaneous stochasticity in this model. We investigate the influence of noise type and find that the observed spontaneous stochasticity does not depend on the chosen stochastic regularisations.
title Spontaneous stochasticity in a 3d Weierstrass-ABC flow
topic Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07581