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Use the model's normalization in which $K$ has velocity-squared units: it is kinetic energy per fixed reference mass, or a correspondingly normalized total energy. LetFor $K>0$, setting $s=\sqrt{K}$ reduces the equation to $2\dot{s}=a-s^2/L_v$. Suppose first that $L_f<L_{\rho }$, so $a>0$. Put $s_{\infty }=\sqrt{a{L}_v}$, $y=s/s_{\infty }$, $y_0=\sqrt{K_0/(a{L}_v)}$ and $\gamma =s_{\infty }/(2L_v)$. Separating variables gives $\dot{y}=\gamma (1-y^2)$ and therefore the forced stratified mixing with square-root power input solutionThis expression satisfies $K(0)=K_0$ and the differential equation directly.

For $0<K_0<K_{\infty }$, one may equivalently write $y=\tanh [\gamma t+\mathrm{artanh}{y}_0]$; the energy increases monotonically to $K_{\infty }$. For $K_0>K_{\infty }$, $y=\coth [\gamma t+\mathrm{arccoth}{y}_0]$, and the energy decreases monotonically to the same value. $K_0=K_{\infty }$ is stationary. For a very large initial energy, the initial evolution is approximately $s=s_0/[1+s_{0}t/(2L_v)]$, until forcing becomes comparable with dissipation. For a very small positive seed, $s$ initially grows approximately linearly, before leveling off. Thus both paragraphs labelled (c) in the PDF are answered by the solution and its two branches.

The positive-seed condition is material. If $K_0=0$, the original equation also admits $K\equiv 0$, and its square-root right-hand side is not Lipschitz at zero. It admits delayed-start solutions $K=0$ for $t\le t_d$ followed by $K=K_{\infty }{\tanh }^2[\gamma (t-t_d)]$. Therefore convergence to the positive steady state is not guaranteed from exactly zero turbulence without a startup prescription. For completeness, if $a=0$ a positive seed decays as $K=K_0/[1+\sqrt{K_0}t/(2L_v){]}^2$. If $a<0$, it reaches zero in finite time, $t_{\ast }=2\sqrt{L_v/|a|}\arctan \sqrt{K_0/(|a|L_v)}$, and the nonnegative continuation is at rest.