At separations well above the integral scale of turbulence, two fluid velocities can decorrelate spatially. If the relative-velocity autocorrelation is stationary and integrable, the displacement identity used in Taylor turbulent dispersion gives the displayed long-time linear mean-square growth. With speed and Lagrangian integral time of order , its relative diffusivity is of order . The characteristic separation grows as , unlike inertial-range Richardson pair dispersion.
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