Geodesic
Distinction of turbulence from chaos -- rough dependence on initial data
Electronic journal of differential equations, Tome 2014 (2014)
This article presents a new theory on the nature of turbulence: when the Reynolds number is large, violent fully developed turbulence is due to "rough dependence on initial data" rather than chaos which is caused by "sensitive dependence on initial data"; when the Reynolds number is moderate, (often transient) turbulence is due to chaos. The key in the validation of the theory is estimating the temporal growth of the initial perturbations with the Reynolds number as a parameter. Analytically, this amounts to estimating the temporal growth of the norm of the derivative of the solution map of the Navier-Stokes equations, for which here I obtain an upper bound $e^{C \sqrt{t Re} + C_1 t}$. This bound clearly indicates that when the Reynolds number is large, the temporal growth rate can potentially be large in short time, i.e. rough dependence on initial data.
Classification : 76F20, 35Q30, 37D45
Keywords: rough dependence on initial data, chaos, turbulence, dependence on initial data 
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Li,  Y.Charles. Distinction of turbulence from chaos -- rough dependence on initial data. Electronic journal of differential equations, Tome 2014 (2014). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/EJDE_2014__2014__a188/