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Section 4. Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Controlled Differential Systems

On anomalous diffusion

Vlad Vicol
New York University, New York, USA

Abstract:

In this talk, I will discuss a joint work with Scott Armstrong in which we construct a class of incompressible vector fields that have many of the properties observed in a fully turbulent velocity field, and for which the associated scalar advection-diffusion equation generically displays anomalous diffusion. We also propose an analytical framework in which to study anomalous diffusion, via a backward cascade of renormalized eddy viscosities. Our proof is by "fractal" homogenization, that is, we perform a cascade of homogenizations across arbitrarily many length scales.