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This paper examines the diffusion of impurity particles in a compressible turbulent medium and compares it to diffusion in an incompressible medium. The turbulent diffusion coefficients are calculated using exact formulas expressed in terms of the Green’s function describing impurity transport in an infinite homogeneous, isotropic, stationary turbulent medium. To obtain an approximate expression for the Green’s function, numerical solutions of the nonlinear DIA (direct interaction approximation) equation (which in this paper are obtained for the first time for the case of compressible turbulence) are employed. Two types of turbulence are examined, acoustic and a mixture of shock waves. These are described by different generalized spectra. Finally, it is shown that compressibility significantly enhances the diffusion coefficient in the case of acoustic turbulence and reduces it in the second case.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 114, 930–945 (September 1998)
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Silant’ev, N.A. Turbulent diffusion in a compressible medium. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 87, 505–512 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558687
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