The theory of turbulence in two dimensions

A. M. Polyakov

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90656-A

The theory of turbulence in two dimensions

A. M. Polyakov

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The methods of conformal field theory are used to obtain series of exact solutions of the fundamental equations of the theory of turbulence. The basic conjecture, proved to be self-consistent, is the conformal invariance of the inertial range. The resulting physical picture is different from the standard one, since the enstrophy transfer is catalyzed by the large-scale motions. The theory gives some unambiguous predictions for the corrections in the inertial range.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	367-385
Number of pages	19
Journal	Nuclear Physics, Section B
Volume	396
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(93)90656-A
State	Published - May 17 1993

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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