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1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, C.P. 68528, Rio de Janeiro 21945-970, RJ, Brazil.
Abstract:
A Lagrangian approach to Burgers turbulence is carried out along the lines of the field theoretical Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism of stochastic hydrodynamics. We derive, from an analysis based on the hypothesis of unbroken Galilean invariance, the asymptotic form of the probability distribution function of negative velocity differences. The origin of Burgers intermittency is found to rely on the dynamical coupling between shocks, identified to instantons, and noncoherent background fluctuations, which-then-cannot be discarded in a consistent statistical description of the flow.
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