On the chemical reactions in turbulent fluids

Summary The turbulent hydrodynamic diffusion may essentially change the kinetics of the elementary chemical reactions. The much faster character of the turbulent diffusion and the evolution of the relative displacements of particles in the inertial range according to the Richardson law, 〈Δr ²〉 ∞t ³, rather than 〈Δr ²〉 ∞t, remove in many cases the ?bottleneck? effects created by the molecular diffusion and seriously influences the diffusioncontrolled processes. It changes also the Debye screening of the charged particles in the turbulent fluids and the scenario of the Turing instability. These problems are discussed in our paper. The consideration is based and on the Obukhov's suggestion on the Markovian character of evolution of liquid particles in turbulent flows. The role of non-Markovian corrections is also briefly discussed. To speed up pubblication, the authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.