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Pith's one-line read This paper derives parameter-free, non-diffusive closure formulas for the von Kármán–Howarth and Corrsin equations, showing that the energy cascade is a propagation of correlations at a scale-dependent speed.

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arxiv 1908.08946 v3 pith:VUN2YTYF submitted 2019-08-23 physics.flu-dyn physics.ao-ph

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This paper aims to close the von Kármán–Howarth and Corrsin equations, the evolution equations for longitudinal velocity and temperature correlations in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, without eddy-viscosity assumptions. Using the Liouville theorem and a statistical-independence hypothesis between the velocity field and the material separation vectors, it derives algebraic formulas that express the triple-correlation transfer terms in terms of the second-order correlations and their gradients. The resulting closures are non-diffusive and parameter-free; they describe the energy cascade as a spatial propagation of correlations at speed $c_T = u\sqrt{(1-f)/2}$. The paper then shows that, under these closures, the Loitsianskii, Saffman–Birkhoff, and Corrsin invariants exist under stated decay conditions, and that self-similar decay can be described by the fluctuating intensities and correlation scales alone. A sympathetic reader would care because the derivation offers a first-principles route to closing two central equations of turbulence theory, free of fitted constants.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the factorization $P=F\,P_\xi$ of the joint distribution into a velocity–temperature part and a material-separation part, together with the Liouville equation for $P_\xi$. With the separation vector concentrated on the sphere $|\xi|=r$ by the strongly peaked distribution (13), the longitudinal velocity difference $U=\dot\xi\cdot\xi/\xi$ is argued to be uniformly distributed on $(-U_S/2,\,U_S)$ (Eq. 26), giving $\langle U\rangle_\xi = \tfrac{1}{2}\sqrt{\langle U^2\rangle_\xi}$. That identity, combined with $\langle U^2\rangle_\xi=2u^2(1-f)$, converts the transfer terms into the closure formulas (46). The paper's claimed novelty is the exact relation (32) connecting spatial correlations computed with the velocity distribution function to those computed with the separation-line distribution function.

What would settle it

Measure the probability density of the longitudinal velocity increment at a fixed separation $r$ in high-Reynolds-number homogeneous isotropic turbulence, in an experiment or a direct numerical simulation. If the pdf is not flat over its support, or if $\langle U\rangle \neq \tfrac{1}{2}\sqrt{\langle U^2\rangle}$, then the closure formulas (46) fail quantitatively.

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Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the central discovery is that the two unclosed transfer terms in the von Kármán–Howarth and Corrsin equations can be written exactly as $K(r)=u^3\sqrt{(1-f)/2}\,\partial f/\partial r$ and $G(r)=u\theta^2\sqrt{(1-f)/2}\,\partial f_\theta/\partial r$, where $f$ and $f_\theta$ are the longitudinal velocity and temperature correlations and $u$ and $\theta$ are their r.m.s. fluctuations. These formulas are derived, not postulated, from the Liouville equation for the joint distribution of velocity, temperature, and material separation, under the hypotheses of full statistical independence of the rapidly fluctuating separation vectors from the velocity and temperature fields, together with homogeneity, isotropy, and incompressibility. They contain no empirical constants and no second derivatives of the correlations, so the cascade is not a diffusion process but a wave-like spatial propagation with local speed $c_T = u\sqrt{(1-f)/2}$. The paper further claims that these closures reproduce the negative skewness of velocity differences, Kolmogorov's law, and scalar spectra, and that they lead to clean conditions for the Loitsianskii and Saffman–Birkhoff invariants.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that, for each fixed separation distance, the longitudinal velocity difference has a flat probability distribution over its possible range, which produces the factor $1/2$ entering the closure formulas; if actual increment distributions are not flat, the central formulas fail.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The von Kármán–Howarth and Corrsin equations become closed partial differential equations with no free empirical constants.
  • The energy cascade is reinterpreted as a spatial propagation of correlations at scale-dependent speed $c_T=u\sqrt{(1-f)/2}$, rather than as a diffusive process.
  • The longitudinal velocity-difference skewness is fixed at $H_3(0)=-3/7$, which the paper reports as being in good agreement with prior measurements and simulations.
  • Under self-similarity and the invariant conditions, decay reduces to ordinary differential equations for $u$, $\lambda_T$, $\theta$, and $\lambda_\theta$, giving explicit power laws such as $u^2\propto (1+4\nu t/\lambda_T^2(0))^{-5/2}$ when the Loitsianskii invariant holds.
  • The same closures imply Kolmogorov-like inertial-range behavior and scalar spectra consistent with Kolmogorov, Obukhov–Corrsin, and Batchelor scalings.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: the same Liouville-based route, if valid, should in principle produce analogous closures for anisotropic or inhomogeneous two-point statistics whenever a separation-vector distribution can be defined; the paper explicitly restricts itself to homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
  • Editorial inference: the flat-distribution assumption (26) is directly testable against measured or simulated probability densities of longitudinal velocity increments at fixed separations; a non-flat pdf would change the factor $1/2$ and hence shift every prediction quantitatively.
  • Editorial inference: if the equivalence (32) holds, surface-averaged second-order structure functions computed on spheres of radius $r$ must equal ensemble-averaged ones in fully developed isotropic turbulence, a quantitative prediction that simulations could check.
  • Editorial inference: the closure's success at reproducing known inertial-range results suggests it might also apply to other transported passive scalars, with the same square-root factor carried by the relevant correlation.
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Summary. The manuscript claims to close the von Kármán–Howarth and Corrsin equations for homogeneous isotropic turbulence using the Liouville theorem together with an assumed statistical independence between the velocity/temperature fields and the material separation vector. It derives non-diffusive closure formulas, Eqs. (46), in which the triple correlations are expressed as products of the longitudinal correlation gradient and a scale-dependent propagation speed c_T = u sqrt((1-f)/2). The paper also analyzes Loitsianskii, Saffman–Birkhoff, and Corrsin invariants and the corresponding decay laws. The central derivation rests on the uniform distribution of the longitudinal velocity increment U, Eq. (26), and on the factorization P = F P_xi, Eq. (12).

Significance. If correct, the result would be significant: it would provide parameter-free, non-diffusive closures for the two classic two-point correlation equations, with testable consequences for the energy cascade and for invariant-based decay laws. The manuscript is clearly organized, states its assumptions explicitly, and the algebraic passage from Eq. (38) to Eq. (46) is internally consistent. However, the derivation fails at a load-bearing point: the assumed uniform law for U contradicts the definition of U together with homogeneity, and the closure formulas are essentially a restatement of that unsupported distributional ansatz. Because the central claim rests on this inconsistency, the paper cannot be accepted in its present form.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 3, Eqs. (26)-(27)] The uniform distribution of U contradicts the definition of U in Eq. (10) together with the homogeneity hypothesis. U is the longitudinal velocity increment (u(t,x+xi)-u(t,x))·xi/|xi|. Under homogeneity, the expectation of u(t,x+xi) with respect to F equals the expectation of u(t,x), so <U> = 0 for every fixed xi, and therefore also after averaging with P_xi. Equation (27) instead gives <U>_xi = (1/2) sqrt(<U^2>_xi) > 0 whenever f(r) < 1. Thus Eq. (26) is not a consequence of isotropy and incompressibility; isotropy makes the direction xi/|xi| uniform on the sphere, not the amplitude U uniform. Since the closure (46) is linear in <U>_xi through Eq. (44), replacing the unjustified coefficient 1/2 with the homogeneity-required value 0 would give K = G = 0. This is an internal inconsistency, not merely a disagreement with empirical turbulence phenomenology.
  2. [Section 3, Eqs. (17)-(24)] The derivation of the support (-U_S/2, U_S) does not justify uniformity. Equation (17) asserts <dV/dt>_xi = 0 for finite separation vectors, but incompressibility only guarantees dV/dt = 0 in the infinitesimal-volume limit, not for finite xi; the representation in Eq. (20) with Ak and epsilon is itself an additional ansatz. Even if the proposed interval were accepted, a bounded support does not imply a flat distribution on that interval, so the argument does not establish Eq. (26).
  3. [Section 5, Eqs. (44)-(46)] The closure formula is algebraically forced by the uniform ansatz rather than derived from independent statistical principles. Substituting Eq. (45) into Eq. (27) converts Eq. (44) into Eq. (46); the square-root factor (1-f)/2 is exactly the content of the assumed uniform distribution. The paper offers no benchmark, consistency test, or independent argument that would distinguish this distribution from other laws with the same second moment, so the claimed proof from Liouville's theorem and statistical independence is not established.
  4. [Section 3, Eq. (12)] The factorization P = F P_xi is asserted as the crucial hypothesis of fully developed turbulence, but no argument is given for the statistical independence of xi from u and theta. Since this assumption is load-bearing for Eqs. (38)-(43), the statement in the Introduction and Conclusion that the present proof is 'more general and rigorous' than the earlier Lyapunov-based derivations is unsupported; the present derivation swaps one unproven ansatz for another.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract and Introduction] The phrase 'exact relationship' used for Eq. (32) overstates the status of that relation, since it is obtained only under the delta-distribution model (13) and the fully developed chaos hypothesis.
  2. [Throughout] There are several typographical issues, including 'litarature' in the Introduction and the malformed email address 'nicola.dedivitiis@uni roma1.it'.
  3. [Section 5, Eq. (48)] The skewness H3 is said to be in agreement with literature data, but no comparison plot or quantitative benchmark is shown in this manuscript; the reader is referred to previous works, which limits the self-containedness of the validation claim.
  4. [Section 6, Eqs. (53)-(55)] The asymptotic conditions m > 4, n > 2, and m > 2 are stated as conditions for invariance, but the interplay with the arbitrary constants c_u and c_theta in Eq. (52) is only sketched; a more explicit derivation of the boundary-term vanishing would improve clarity.

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The closure formula (46) is derived from the paper's stated statistical assumptions rather than from a circular use of the target; the uniform-law step (26) is unsupported but is an assumption, not a circular reduction. Self-citations are corroborative, not load-bearing.

full rationale

The derivation chain is: statistical independence (12) and the peaked isotropic Pxi (13) lead through the Liouville equation to Eqs. (38)-(44), which express K and G as u^2(df/dr)<U>_xi and theta^2(df_theta/dr)<U>_xi. The closure (46) is then obtained by inserting Eq. (45) into the assumed uniform-distribution relation (27). Algebraically, Eq. (46) follows from Eqs. (44), (45), and (27) by construction, but this is a derivation from stated assumptions; Eqs. (46) are not fed back into the definition of U or of Pxi. The genuinely weak step is Section 3: the assertion that U is uniformly distributed on (-U_S/2, U_S), and hence that <U>_xi = (1/2) sqrt(<U^2>_xi), is not a consequence of isotropy or incompressibility and is in tension with homogeneity, which would give <U> = 0. This is a correctness risk and makes the claim of a rigorous derivation from the Liouville theorem doubtful, but it is an unsupported closure hypothesis rather than a circular reduction. The many citations to the author's own prior works [29-31,45,57,59] are used to assert that the same formulas were previously derived and validated; the present derivation does not rely on those citations, so the self-citation is not load-bearing. Accordingly, no significant circularity is identified.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters appear in the final closure; instead, the derivation imports several unproven statistical assumptions. The most consequential is the uniform distribution of the longitudinal velocity increment U, which fixes the coefficient sqrt((1-f)/2). The factorization and delta-spike P_xi are additional strong assumptions. No new physical entities are introduced.

assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption P(t,u,theta,x,xi) factorizes as F(t,u,theta) P_xi(t,x,xi) (Eq 12)
    The paper calls this the crucial point of fully developed turbulence; statistical independence of material separation from velocity and temperature fields is assumed, not derived.
  • ad hoc to paper P_xi is a Dirac delta concentrated on |xi|=r: P_xi = (1/(4 pi r^2)) delta(xi-r) (Eq 13)
    Separation vectors are forced to lie exactly on a sphere of radius r at every instant; this is a modeling ansatz not implied by the dynamics.
  • ad hoc to paper The longitudinal velocity difference U is uniformly distributed on (-US/2, US) (Eq 26)
    Uniformity is asserted from isotropy and incompressibility, but isotropy alone gives an arcsine-type distribution for a directional component; no evidence supports uniformity.
  • domain assumption Navier-Stokes dynamics can be reduced to a finite-dimensional manifold so that Ruelle-Takens bifurcation theory applies (Section 2)
    The paper invokes Ref [49] to justify treating the infinite-dimensional velocity space as finite-dimensional; this is a major reduction.
  • domain assumption Time scales of xi are completely separated from those of u and theta, so xi and (u, theta) are statistically uncorrelated (Section 2)
    This separation underlies the factorization and the claim that K and G arise only from the P_xi rate; it is not proven in this paper.
  • standard math Standard calculus of Dirac delta distributions, including Eq (68) integration by parts
    The Appendix states standard distributional identities used in the derivation.

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In this communication, the closure formulas of von K\'arm\'an--Howarth and Corrsin equations are obtained through the Liouville theorem and the hypothesis of homogeneous isotropic incompressible turbulence. Such closures, based on the concept that, in fully developed turbulence, contiguous fluid particles trajectories continuously diverge, are of non--diffusive nature, and express a correlations spatial propagation phenomenon between the several scales which occurs with a propagation speed depending on length scale and velocity standard deviation. These closure formulas coincide with those just obtained in previous works through the finite scale Lyapunov analysis of the fluid act of motion. Here, unlike the other articles, the present study does not use the Lyapunov theory, and provides the closures showing first an exact relationship between the pair spatial correlations calculated with the velocity distribution function and those obtained using the material separation line distribution function. As this analysis does not adopt the Lyapunov theory, this does not need the definition and/or the existence of the Lyapunov exponents. Accordingly, the present proof of the closures results to be more general and rigorous than that presented in the other works, corroborating the previous results. Finally, the conditions of existence of invariants in isotropic turbulence are studied by means of the proposed closures. In the presence of such invariants and self--similarity, the sole evolution of velocity and temperature standard deviations and of the correlation scales is shown to be adequate to fairly describe the isotropic turbulence.

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Figure 1. Scheme of the proposed analysis. rate of separation lines distribution function, where the latter is formally expressed by means of the Liouville theorem. Hence, the present analysis does not require the Lyapunov theory and results to be more general and rigorous than the formulations presented in [29, 30, 31, 45], showing that the Lyapunov theory is a sufficient analytical tool for achieving the same formulas, corr… view at source ↗

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