Turbulent compressible fluid: renormalization group analysis, scaling regimes, and anomalous scaling of advected scalar fields

Abstract

We study a model of fully developed turbulence of a compressible fluid, based on the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. In this approach, scaling properties are related to the fixed points of the renormalization group equations. Previous analysis of this model near the real-world space dimension 3 identified some scaling regime [Theor. Math. Phys., 110, 3 (1997)]. The aim of the present paper is to explore the existence of additional regimes, that could not be found using the direct perturbative approach of the previous work, and to analyze the crossover between different regimes. It seems possible to determine them near the special value of space dimension $4$ in the framework of double $y$ and $\varepsilon$ expansion, where $y$ is the exponent associated with the random force and $\varepsilon=4-d$ is the deviation from the space dimension $4$. Our calculations show that there exists an additional fixed point that governs scaling behavior. Turbulent advection of a passive scalar (density) field by this velocity ensemble is considered as well. We demonstrate that various correlation functions of the scalar field exhibit anomalous scaling behavior in the inertial-convective range. The corresponding anomalous exponents, identified as scaling dimensions of certain composite fields, can be systematically calculated as a series in $y$ and $\varepsilon$. All calculations are performed in the leading one-loop approximation.