Scaling laws and exact results in turbulence *

Abstract In this note, we address the validity of certain exact results from turbulence theory in the deterministic setting. The main tools, inspired by the work of Duchon and Robert (2000 Nonlinearity 13 249–55) and Eyink (2003 Nonlinearity 16 137), are a number of energy balance identities for weak solutions of the incompressible Euler and Navier–Stokes equations. As a consequence, we show that certain weak solutions of the Euler and Navier–Stokes equations satisfy deterministic versions of Kolmogorov’s 4 5 , 4 3 , 4 15 laws. We apply these computations to improve a recent result of Hofmanova et al (2023 arXiv: 2304.14470 ), which shows that a construction of solutions of forced Navier–Stokes due to Bruè et al (2023 Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. ) and exhibiting a form of anomalous dissipation satisfies asymptotic versions of Kolmogorov’s laws. In addition, we show that the globally dissipative 3D Euler flows recently constructed by Giri et al (2023 arXiv: 2305.18509 ) satisfy the local versions of Kolmogorov’s laws.