A functional equation governing the motion of a compressible fluid flow

The fundamental problem of the statistical dynamics of a turbulent flow, formulated in terms of characteristic functionals, has already been pointed out in the work of E. Hopf. In his work he deduced a functional equation governing the evolution of the characteristic functional of a turbulent velocity field in an incompressible field. In this paper we present a derivation of a dynamical equation governing the evolution of the characteristic functional of a turbulent velocity field in a compressible field. However, the characteristic functional equations we derived are governing the motions of an ideal gas and vander Waals gas.