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The stability of incompressible turbulent fluids with respect to weak mean flow perturbations is discussed. It is shown that for a statistically homogeneous, isotropic, and stationary model such perturbations will decay. This is in marked contrast to the compressible case.
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Lipscombe, T., Frenkel, A.L. & ter Haar, D. Stability of isotropic incompressible turbulence against weak mean flow perturbations. J Stat Phys 53, 95–108 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01011547
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