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Forced Burgers Equation in an Unbounded Domain

Jérémie Bec

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The inviscid Burgers equation with random and spatially smooth forcing is considered in the limit when the size of the system tends to infinity. For the one-dimensional problem, it is shown both theoretically and numerically that many of the features of the space-periodic case carry over to infinite domains as intermediate time asymptotics. In particular, for large time T we introduce the concept of T-global shocks replacing the notion of main shock which was considered earlier in the periodic case (1997, E et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1904). In the case of spatially extended systems these objects are no anymore global. They can be defined only for a given time scale and their spatial density behaves as ρ(T)∼T−2/3 for large T. The probability density function p(A) of the age A of shocks behaves asymptotically as A−5/3. We also suggest a simple statistical model for the dynamics and interaction of shocks and discuss an analogy with the problem of distribution of instability islands for a simple first-order stochastic differential equation.

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hal-01399309 , version 1 (18-11-2016)

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Jérémie Bec, Konstantin Khanin. Forced Burgers Equation in an Unbounded Domain. Journal of Statistical Physics, 2003, 113 (5/6), pp.741 - 759. ⟨10.1023/A:1027356518273⟩. ⟨hal-01399309⟩
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