Stretching of polymers and turbulence: Fokker Planck equation, special stochastic scaling limit and stationary law

Abstract

The aim of this work is understanding the stretching mechanism of stochastic models of turbulence acting on a simple model of dilute polymers. We consider a turbulent model that is white noise in time and activates frequencies in a shell $N\le \left|k\right|\le 2N$ and investigate the scaling limit as $N\to \infty$, under suitable intensity assumption, such that the stretching term has a finite limit covariance. The polymer density equation, initially an SPDE, converges weakly to a limit deterministic equation with a new term. Stationary solutions can be computed and show power law decay in the polymer length.