Hydrodynamic approximation for two-dimensional optical turbulence: symmetries of statistical distributions

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V. N. Grebenev, A. N. Grishkov, S. B. Medvedev, M. P. Fedoruk

  • Federal Research Center for Information and Computational Technologies
  • Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
  • Novosibirsk State University
Abstract: Optical turbulence is described in terms of multipoint probability density functions (PDFs) fn using the Lundgren–Monin–Novikov (LMN) equation (statistical form of the Euler equations) for the vortex field w = × u in a two-dimensional flow (u is the velocity weight field). Lagrangian particles are shown to evolve along the characteristics of the fn-equation from the LMN hierarchy. The vorticity is preserved along the characteristics in the absence of an external random force. It is shown that the group G of conformal transformations invariantly transforms the characteristics of the equation with zero vorticity and the family of fn-equations for PDFs along these lines, or the statistics of the line of zero vorticity. Along other lines of the level w = const ≠ 0, the statistics is not conformally invariant. Moreover, the action G preserves the PDF class.
Keywords: two-dimensional Schrödinger equation, Lundgren–Monin–Novikov equations, conformal invariance, lines of zero vorticity.
Received: 16.09.2022