An effective energy-enstrophy diffusion process with a condensation bound

Abstract

We use Gaussian measure on ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ to define the coefficients of an elliptic diffusion and show that it lives in an open cone of ${\mathbb{R}}^2$. One component represents enstrophy and the other energy. We establish the existence and uniqueness of a stationary distribution for this diffusion. Owing to the special properties of the coefficients of this diffusion, we derive a condensation bound, which controls the distance to $1$ of the ratio of the expected energy to the expected enstrophy (this ratio is at most $1$ with our normalization). In a companion article, as a ``proof of concept'', we show that the diffusion constructed in this work is the inviscid limit of the laws of the ``enstrophy-energy'' process of a stationary $N$-dimensional Galerkin-Navier-Stokes type evolution with Brownian forcing and random stirring (the strength of which can be made to go to zero in the inviscid limit, and which plays the role of a regularization).

29 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, redactional improvement of abstract and introduction