Diffusion in turbulence

SummaryWe prove long time diffusive behavior (homogenization) for convection-diffusion in a turbulent flow that it incompressible and has a stationary and square integrable stream matrix. Simple shear flow examples show that this result is sharp for flows that have stationary stream matrices.

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