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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 71(5 Pt 2): 056311, 2005 May.
Artículo
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| ID: mdl-16089653
RESUMEN
The turbulent Prandtl number has been calculated in the two-loop approximation of the epsilon expansion of the stochastic theory of turbulence. The strikingly small value obtained for the two-loop correction explains the good agreement of the earlier one-loop result with the experiment. This situation is drastically different from other available nontrivial two-loop results, which exhibit corrections of the magnitude of the one-loop term. The reason is traced to the mutual cancellation of additional divergences appearing in two dimensions, which have had a major effect on the results of previous calculations of other quantities.