Correlations and anomalous transport effects related to stochastic instability

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse turbulent transport in the framework of the correlation approach to obtain the effective diffusion coefficient and characteristic increment in the scaling form. Such factors as anisotropy, seed diffusion mechanisms and reconstruction of flow topology significantly have an impact on the effective diffusivity. We consider the different aspects of stochastic instability such as the decorrelation mechanism to estimate characteristic correlation times and correlation scales in the framework of the scaling approach. The topics to be discussed include the Rechester–Rosenbluth correlation scalings, percolation transport in time dependent flows, anisotropic MHD spectra and a multi-scale approach to the analysis of anomalous transport. To treat long-range correlation effects, the percolation renormalization is analysed in time-dependent regimes. In the framework of the multiscale approach, a scaling for an increment of the stochastic instability in two-dimensional random flow is suggested.