Anomalous Dissipation in Passive Scalar Transport

Abstract

We study anomalous dissipation in hydrodynamic turbulence in the context of passive scalars. Our main result produces an incompressible $C^{\infty }([0,T)\times {\mathbb{T}}^d)\cap L^1([0,T];C^{1-}({\mathbb{T}}^d))$ velocity field which explicitly exhibits anomalous dissipation. As a consequence, this example also shows non-uniqueness of solutions to the transport equation with an incompressible $L^1([0,T];C^{1-}({\mathbb{T}}^d))$ drift, which is smooth except at one point in time. We also provide three sufficient conditions for anomalous dissipation provided solutions to the inviscid equation become singular in a controlled way. Finally, we discuss connections to the Obukhov-Corrsin monofractal theory of scalar turbulence along with other potential applications.

arXiv commentIt was pointed out to us by E. Bruè and Q-H. Nguyen that Conjecture 1.7, as stated, was false. The new version contains a modification of this conjecture which emerged after discussions with them

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