Influence of anisotropy and compressibility on anomalous scaling of a passive scalar field

Abstract

Influence of uniaxial small-scale anisotropy and compressibility on the stability of scaling regime and on the anomalous scaling of structure functions of a scalar field is investigated in the model of a passive scalar field advected by the compressible Gaussian strongly anisotropic velocity field with the covariance $\propto δ(t-t^{\prime})|{\bf x}-{\bf x^{\prime}}|^{2ε}$ by using the field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion. The inertial-range stability of the corresponding scaling regime is established. The anomalous scaling of the single-time structure functions is studied and the corresponding anomalous exponents are calculated. Their dependence on the compressibility parameter and anisotropy parameters is analyzed. It is shown that the presence of compressibility leads to the decreasing of the critical dimensions of the important composite operators, i.e., the anomalous scaling is more pronounced in the compressible systems. This result is demonstrated for the structure function of the third order. All calculations are done to the first order in $ε$.