I. INTRODUCTION
We are interested in the turbulence of one dimensional fluid flows in one-dimensional sticky dynamics. In [1], the authors considered, in Eulerian coordinates, the velocity field of fluid particles and a probability field representing their mass or charge distribution. The particles are supposed accelerated between two successive shock times; the dynamics is then governed by a force (measure) field . For suitable initial data and by discrete approximations, they solved the forced pressureless gas system
where the force is absolutely continuous, in the space states, with respect to (w.r.t.) .
In this paper, we consider non-accelerated fluid particles, so the force of [1] is null and the solution of (1) is thus the one of [2, 8, 3]. In this work, we concentrate our attention on turbines which generate, for (1), a new force whose the support is included in the set of shock (and pure turbulence) sites, in space-time.
Let us first recall the constructions of [2, 8, 3]. They all rely on the sticky particle dynamics which was introduced, at a discrete level, by Zeldovich [9] in order to explain the formation of large structures in the universe. That is a finite number of particles which move with constant velocities while they are not collided. All the shocks are inelastic following the conservation laws of mass and momentum.
At a continuous level, the initial state of particles is given by the support of a non-negative measure . A particle starts from position with velocity and mass . The particles move with constant velocities and masses while not collided. All the shocks are inelastic, following the conservation laws of mass and momentum. In their pioneering work, E et al [8] made this construction when the particles are every where in , is continuous and the mass of any interval is computed with a positive density , i.e. . At time , a particle of position has the mass and the velocity , the momentum of any interval is . The authors then solved (1) with .
At the same time and independently, Brenier and Grenier [2] considered the case of particles confined in a in interval , i.e. . By discretization of and using discrete sticky particle dynamics, they solved the scalar conservation law by a weak solution , the unique which has some entropy condition. As a consequence, the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure is absolutely continuous w.r.t. of Randon-Nicodym derivative a function . Then solves (1) with .
In [3], Dermoune and Moutsinga constructed the sticky particles dynamics with an initial mass distribution , any probability measure, and a initial velocity function , any continuous and locally integrable function such that as . The authors united and generalized previous works of [8, 2] with the arguments that the particles paths define a Markov process solution of the ODE
and the velocity process is a backward martingale. Moreover, .
In [6, 7], using suitable convex hulls, Moutsinga extended the construction when is any non-negative measure and has no positive jump. He gave the description of different kinds of clusters , i.e. the set of all the initial particles which have the same position at time .
Following the preoccupation of Eyink and Drivas ([4]) about turbulences, Nzissila, Moutsinga and Eyi Obiang [5] defined a turbulent interval as a set of initial positions of sticky particles from which rise a turbulence. This means that for all , the interval is the widest among the intervals which have the same position at their common first shock time . The term "turbulence" (instead of "shock") is justified by the description of a degenerated turbulent interval . In this case, at its mathematical first shock time , the particle does not enter in a real shock but it begins a coagulation process; it enters in a pure turbulence without beginning by a real shock.
At time of turbulence , the turbulent interval is part of a cluster . The initial positions are called turbulent particles. The motions of these particles are given by four backward Markov processes, respectively, and solutions of (2) and whose the velocity processes (the derivatives) are semi-martingales.
In this paper, we consider a process of more general form than in [5]. The gas system (1) is studied with a force generated at random turbulence time .
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 is devoted to the sticky particles model. We recall its definition and the main properties used here. In section 3 we come back to the results of [5] according to the study of turbulence. These results were obtained when the support of is an interval (i.e. there is no vacuum of matter). We generalize them to any type of support. The particularity, in presence of vacuum, is that traditional delta-shocks are transformed into butterfly-shocks (like in [3]). Section 4 is devoted to scalar conservation laws from the point of view of turbulent particles. First we give an entropy solution with the same flux as in [2], but with different initial data. Then, in subsection 4.1 we study the gas system. Considering the construction of [5], we define a process of more general form , with the help of any complete system of events . A solution of (1), is given by and . The force is absolutely continuous w.r.t. the law of the couple .
Although this solution is constructed from the sticky particles model, it does not have the properties of [1].
II. FLOW AND VELOCITY FIELD OF STICKY PARTICLES
a) The sticky particle dynamics
The definition of one dimensional sticky particle dynamics requires a mass distribution , any Radon measure (a measure finite on compact subsets) and a velocity function , any real function such that the couple satisfies the Negative Jump Condition (NJC) defined in [6]. Precisely, consider the support of and the subsets , . Suppose that is locally integrable and consider the generalized limits , :
The Negative Jump Condition requires that
In the whole paper, we mainly use , the Lebesgue measure. That's why we always suppose that the support .
Considering particles of initial mass distribution and of initial velocity function , their sticky dynamics is defined in [7], when the couple satisfies (5) and as . The dynamics is characterized by a forward flow defined on .
b) Proposition (Forward flow)
For all ..
and is non-decreasing and continuous.
The value is the position after supplementary time of the particle which occupied the position at time . More precisely:
- If with , then
Else
If and , then
- The function is concave. It is a straight line if and only if .
The function is convex. It is a straight line if and only if .
- For any compact subset , consider , and the probability . The sticky particle dynamics induced by , during time interval , is characterized by the restriction of the function on .
The latter means that the restriction of flow on a compact subset of spacetime does not depend on the whole matter, but only on the restriction of the matter (distribution) on a compact subset of space states.
Remark that if , then the graphs , draw a delta-shock, well known in the literature (Figure 1). Otherwise, these graphs draw a kind of butterfly-shock with foded wings (Figure 2)


What about the velocity?
c) Proposition (Flow derivative)
For all , the function has everywhere left hand derivatives. It has everywhere right hand derivatives, except when with and . Now and after, the notation stands for the right hand derivative.
There exists a function such that everywhere the right derivative exists.
For any compact subset , consider , and the probability . If the right hand derivative exists for , the using the conditional expectation under , we have
We call a cluster at time all interval of the type . The last assertion of proposition 2.1 implies an important property on the velocity of a cluster.
d) Corollary
- If has positive mass, then
If , then .
Else is not (well) defined.
2.
If and , then
If (resp. ), then . (resp. ).
If , then and .
If , then and .
For all , we have as . For all , if (resp. ), then
e) Markov and martingale properties
Let be as in theorem 2.1. On abstract measure space we define a measurable function with image-measure
. In practice, and is the identity function. For all , we set . As a consequence of theorem 2.1, we have the following:
f) Proposition (Markov and martingale property)
1. , we have
- If is integrable, then under the measure (or ):
Else, for any compact , if , then under the conditional probability , we get (9).
- If is integrable, then under the measure (or ):
Else, for any compact , , then we get (10) under the probability (or under the conditional probability knowing .
III. TURBULENCE
In this section, inspired by a preoccupation from [4], we study the sticky particles dynamics from the point of view of turbulence. Generalizing the results of [5], we get a class of Markov processes solution (2). The velocities fields are backward semi-martingales.
a) Flow, delta-shock and butterfly-shock
In [5], was defined the first turbulence (or shock) time of the particle initial position :
Let be of image-measure . Define and the cluster in which belongs at time . The turbulent interval is defined as the greatest interval containing on which is constant. It was shown in [5] that the velocities of these variables are semi-martingales, when the Lebesgue measure. The same result was obtained for the combination , with the event the particle enters in the shock from the left". The interesting variable was introduced [4] in order to study the Burgers turbulence.
Our goal is to generalize the results of [5] to any non-negative measure and any function with negative jumps (w.r.t. ). For , we consider the process . But one could have other preoccupations than the above event A of [5]. We are led to defined the process of more of more general form , with the help of any partition , , , of , events of . Following the implication the application of the 's, we have fifteen types of processes. (If ; then ).
i. Proposition (Random butterfly-shock)
- Let stand independently for or .
2. and
- and .
is concave and is convex.
The segment and the paths draw a prime delta-shock (so called in [5] because of the first shock time of turbulence).
If , then the paths , are linear; and the draw, with the segment , delta shock (well known in the literature) (see figure 1).
If (resp. ), then the path (resp. ) is linear; this can occur o,ly when (resp. ). If , then the paths , draw, not a delta-shock, but butterfly-shock with folded wings (see Figure 3).

b) Velocity process as semi-martingale
i. Proposition
is bounded variational process adapted to the natural non-increasing filtration of .
For all , , with . Hence, is a backward càdlàg semi-martingale of .
If , then for all , , with . Hence, is a backward càdlàg semi-martingale of .
If is an optional time of , then is a backward càdlàg semi-martingale of the completed filtration . Moreover
We recall that for any non-increasing filtration , the filtration is defined by , where is the set of negligible events of .
Before the proof, we recall some properties well known in the theory of stochastic processes.
c) Lemma
Let a process be adapted to a non-increasing filtration . Let be an optional time with respect to , i.e. for all , the event . The following holds.
The set is a sigma-algebra.
If all the paths of are either continuous on the right or on the left, then the r.v. is measurable.
Suppose that is continuous on the right; that is, for all , . If is a backward martingale with respect to , then for all
, the right hand and left hand limits , exist a.s. Moreover, the process is a backward martingale with respect to the completed filtration , with .
d) Lemma
If a process is such that for all , then is an optional time with respect to the natural non-increasing filtration of . Moreover, .
Suppose that for some . If , then for all integrable r.v. .
The second assertion is satisfied by and , with . Both and satisfy only the first assertion.
Proof. We begin with the first assertion. are Borel functions and it is well known that if is discontinuous in , it is also discontinuous in . Then,
Since
the proof of the first assertion is done.
Remark that . So , with
A_{t} = \{u^{-}(\cdot,t) \neq u^{+}(\cdot,t)\} \cup \left(\{u^{-}(\cdot,t) = u^{+}(\cdot,t)\} \cap \left[ \bigcap_{n \geq 1} \left\{u^{-}(\phi_{t,1/n},t+1/n) \neq u^{+}(\phi_{t,1/n},t+1/n)\right\} \right]\right) \end{array}Now we show that . First remark that if , then . Thus for all Borel subsets and , we have and
Z_0^{-1}(B) \cap \{\tau(Z_0) > t\} = Z_t^{-1}(\phi_{0,t}(B)) \cap \{\tau(Z_0) > t\}, \[Z_0^{-1}(B) \cap \{\Gamma > t\} = Z_t^{-1}(\phi_{0,t}(B)) \cap \{\Gamma > t\} \in \mathcal{F}_t^Z.\]This means that .
For the second assertion, since , it is easy to see that is measurable; for all bounded Borel function
Hence, a.s.
Proof of proposition 3.2
- The restriction is monotone. Thus, the process is a bounded variational process. It is adapted to since is an optional time of this filtration.
- We have . So for all , the r.v. is -measurable. Since , we get
Then for all , .
- Same proof as previous, using the fact that and (lemma 3.4)
- Simple application of lemma 3.3. For all ,
with
Remark that assertion 3) is a consequence of 4). Indeed, if , then (lemma 3.4). So and are measurable and the processes , , are adapted to . Thus, the process is a backward martingale of . Hence the process is a semi-martingale of .
In fact, . So the martingale part is .
Now we precise, under more general assumptions, when the velocity of turbulence is a martingale.
c) Martingales and soft turbulence
In this part, we show that the martingality of the velocity turbulence implies that all mass of any turbulent interval is concentrated in at most one point (single turbulent point). Let be the set of turbulent intervals which are not reduced to single points.
d) Corollary (Turbulence martingales and prime-delta-shocks)
The process is a martingale of iff a.s. .
Suppose that is an optional time of (which is effectively the case when is an interval). The process is a martingale of iff a.s. . Furthermore, if , then a.s. .
The following describes the turbulent intervals and clusters when the velocity of their borders are martingales.
e) Proposition
If a.s., then is at most countable and the interior of all turbulent interval is a vacuum.
- Case ( ): we have a.e. and .
- Case ( ): we have a.e. and .
any turbulent interval is also a cluster at turbulent time.
- Case : we have a.e. and .
- Case ( ): we have a.e. and .
- Case ( ): we have a.e. and .
Proof: Let us study each semi-martingale.
- For : A necessary condition is that . But and . Then and . So a.e. Thus a.e.
In the other hand, we have a.e. and . So a.e.
Now we show that . If , then . If , then s.t. . If moreover , then and . If , then
From corollary 2.3, we get and . And again . Thus a.e.: and .
Moreover . Conversely, if , , with . This implies . So and for all . But the set of vacuums is at most countable. So is . We then get the result
For : Analogous to previous case.
For : The process is a martingale if only if its bounded variational part vanishes:
This equivalent to for all . Then a.e.
If , then s.t. and or . If moreover , then
In this case, if , then from the corollary 2.3, we get and . Then . In the same way, if , we get and . In any case, and .
We conclude that is at most countable and
This give the results.
- For . But . Then a.e.: and . Furthermore,
and for all , we have
So is at most countable and we get the result for .
- : Analogous to previous case.
Now, we are interested in the conservation laws.
IV. CONSERVATION LAWS
In this section, we investigate if a process of type of can provide solutions to the scalar conservation law
and to the pressure-less gas system
It is well known, from the sticky particles model, that the mass distribution of the matter and their velocity functions provide a weak solution (in the sense of distributions) to the system (13). The first line of
(13) is usually called conservation law of mass and the second is a conservation law of momentum. Moreover, the couple c.d.f and the momentum function provide an entropy solution to (12). Precisely,
where . The equation (12) is conservation law of mass and momentum. Can we have the same thing for the function with the same flux (14)?
a) Proposition
Consider the real function
The couple is a weak solution of the conservation law (12) if only if coincides with the sticky particles process defined from .
Before the proof, let us describe what happens in our investigation. From the point of view of the matter, our investigation consists in a change of distributions. We recall that the paths of are "extracted" from significant paths of on which rise turbulences. The extraction procedure redistributes the mass. If is constant on and is the cluster which contains at time , one of the four particles or are extracted. We call them "turbulent particles". All the mass of is initially re-affected to these particles. In order to expect the preservation of the conservation law, one can also re-cause the momentum as follows. First remark that each event of section 3.1 is of type " ".
- The mass and the momentum are affected to .
- The mass and the momentum are affected to .
- The mass and the momentum are affected to .
- The mass and the momentum are affected to .
- The total mass and total momentum of and are aggregations of the masses and momenta extracted from turbulent intervals inside . Algorithm: Extraction along the time and aggregation of mass and momentum to (resp. ) until it is hinted from the left (resp. the right).
The momentum transferred to turbulent particles can also be computed from the flux (14) and c.d.f of . Indeed, the turbulent particles in have the momentum
However, the velocity function induced by this momentum is not the correct one for the real dynamics of . Indeed, each turbulent particle of initial position received the mass and the momentum . This induces the velocity
So, is the momentum of another sticky particles dynamics, the one from .
Proof of proposition 4.1: Such a weak solution is an entropy solution which is unique once imposed the initial datum . Let be the flow constructed from and define . One has for all . Since , one has also . So on the support of the law of , and one gets for all .
Now we consider the momentum which corresponds to the dynamics of , the function . It is also the momentum function of the sticky particles dynamics defined from .
b) Proposition
Suppose that a.e. We have
with,
and
Surprisingly, as shown in the sequel, these results lead to the homogeneous conservation law of the momentum. For all , let be the distribution of , i.e. for all Borel set .
c) Gas system with turbulence force
For all , let be the distribution of , i.e. for all Borel set .
d) Corollary
Let us define and consider the law of . If a.e., then we have
The couple is thus a weak solution of a pressure gas system of initial datum is .
Proof of proposition 4.2: . Using , we have, for any test function on :
and
Proof of corollary 4.3
From previous proposition, one gets . Then, in order to have the first equation of gas system, use the fact that
It remains the last equation. For any test function on and any test function on ,
This ends the proof.