Coarse graining, dynamic renormalization and the kinetic theory of shock clustering

Publication Year
2016

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

We demonstrate the utility of the equation-free methodology developed by one of the authors (IGK) for the study of scalar conservation laws with disordered initial conditions. The numerical scheme is benchmarked on exact solutions in Burgers turbulence corresponding to Levy process initial data. For these initial data, the kinetics of shock clustering is described by Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with additive kernel. The equation-free methodology is used to develop a particle scheme that computes self-similar solutions to the coagulation equation, including those with fat tails.

Journal
Nonlinearity
Volume
29
Pages
947-961
Date Published
03/2016
ISBN
0951-7715
Accession Number
WOS:000369234200008

Times Cited: 01361-6544