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ARCHIVE FOR RATIONAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS
Volume 224, Issue 3, Pages 1161-1204Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-017-1099-y
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- Sloan Research Fellowship
- NSF Grant [DMS-1413177]
- AMS-Simons Travel Award
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1462029] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We analyze the decay and instant regularization properties of the evolution semigroups generated by two-dimensional drift-diffusion equations in which the scalar is advected by a shear flow and dissipated by full or partial diffusion. We consider both the space-periodic T-2 setting and the case of a bounded channel T x [0, 1] with no-flux boundary conditions. In the infinite Peclet number limit (diffusivity nu -> 0), our work quantifies the enhanced dissipation effect due to the shear. We also obtain hypoelliptic regularization, showing that solutions are instantly Gevrey regular even with only partial diffusion. The proofs rely on localized spectral gap inequalities and ideas from hypocoercivity with an augmented energy functional with weights replaced by pseudo-differential operators (of a rather simple form). As an application, we study small noise inviscid limits of invariant measures of stochastic perturbations of passive scalars, and show that the classical Freidlin scaling between noise and diffusion can be modified. In particular, although statistically stationary solutions blow up in H-1 in the limit nu -> 0, we show that viscous invariant measures still converge to a unique inviscid measure.
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