Wavelets meet Burgulence: CVS-filtered Burgers equation

Numerical experiments with the one-dimensional inviscid Burgers equation show that filtering the solution at each time step in a way similar to CVS (Coherent Vortex Simulation) gives the solution of the viscous Burgers equation. The CVS filter used here is based on a complex-valued translation-invariant wavelet representation of the velocity, from which one selects the wavelet coefficients having modulus larger than a threshold whose value is iteratively estimated. The flow evolution is computed from either deterministic or random initial conditions, considering both white noise and Brownian motion.