Asymptotic diffusion coefficients and anomalous diffusion in a meandering jet flow under environmental fluctuations

A. von Kameke, F. Huhn, V. Pérez-Muñuzuri
2012 Physical Review E  
The nontrivial dependence of the asymptotic diffusion on noise intensity has been studied for a Hamiltonian flow mimicking the Gulf Jet Stream. Three different diffusion regimes have been observed depending on the noise intensity. For intermediate noise the asymptotic diffusion decreases with noise intensity at a rate which is linearly dependent to the flow's meander amplitude. Increasing the noise the fluid transport passes through a superdiffusive regime and finally becomes diffusive again at
more » ... large noise intensities. The presence of inner circulation regimes in the flow has been found to be determinant to explain the observed behavior.
doi:10.1103/physreve.85.017201 pmid:22400707 fatcat:xdp6tzbv4rb4ropqjha43wdzt4