Fourier mass lower bounds for Batchelor-regime passive scalars

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Main Authors: Cooperman, William, Rowan, Keefer
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Published: 2025
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author Cooperman, William
Rowan, Keefer
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Rowan, Keefer
contents Batchelor predicted that a passive scalar $ψ^ν$ with diffusivity $ν$, advected by a smooth fluid velocity, should typically have Fourier mass distributed as $|\hat ψ^ν|^2(k) \approx |k|^{-d}$ for $|k| \ll ν^{-1/2}$. For a broad class of velocity fields, we give a quantitative lower bound for a version of this prediction summed over constant width annuli in Fourier space. This improves on previously known results, which require the prediction to be summed over the whole ball.
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spellingShingle Fourier mass lower bounds for Batchelor-regime passive scalars
Cooperman, William
Rowan, Keefer
Analysis of PDEs
Batchelor predicted that a passive scalar $ψ^ν$ with diffusivity $ν$, advected by a smooth fluid velocity, should typically have Fourier mass distributed as $|\hat ψ^ν|^2(k) \approx |k|^{-d}$ for $|k| \ll ν^{-1/2}$. For a broad class of velocity fields, we give a quantitative lower bound for a version of this prediction summed over constant width annuli in Fourier space. This improves on previously known results, which require the prediction to be summed over the whole ball.
title Fourier mass lower bounds for Batchelor-regime passive scalars
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05885