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Emission in spectral lines can provide unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to measure. However, the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Lazarian

In this paper we numerically study the behavior of the density power spectrum in turbulent thermally bistable flows. We analyze a set of five three-dimensional simulations where turbulence is randomly driven in Fourier space at a fixed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Adriana Gazol , Jongsoo Kim

A theory of the macroturbulent instability in the system containing vortices of opposite directions (vortices and antivortices) in hard superconductors is proposed. The origin of the instability is connected with the anisotropy of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Fisher , T. H. Johansen , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. A. Levchenko , V. A. Yampol'skii

Describing superfluid turbulence at intermediate scales between the inter-vortex distance and the macroscale requires an acceptable equation of motion for the density of quantized vortex lines $\cal{L}$. The closure of such an equation for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-24 D. Khomenko , V. S. L'vov , A. Pomyalov , I. Procaccia

We study two dimensional superfluid turbulence by employing an effective description valid in the limit where the density of superfluid vortices is parametrically small. At sufficiently low temperatures the effective description yields an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-12 Paul M. Chesler , Andrew Lucas

The spatio-temporal dynamics of the deformation of a vibrated plate is measured by a high speed Fourier transform profilometry technique. The space-time Fourier spectrum is analyzed. It displays a behavior consistent with the premises of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-13 Nicolas Mordant

The energy spectrum of superfluid turbulence in the absence of the normal fluid is studied numerically. In order to discuss the statistical properties, we calculated the energy spectra of the 3D velocity field induced by dilute and dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsunehiko Araki , Makoto Tsubota , Sergey K. Nemirovskii

We consider turbulent synchrotron emitting media that also exhibits Faraday rotation and provide a statistical description of synchrotron polarization fluctuations. In particular, we consider these fluctuations as a function of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Results from a new series of experiments on turbulent flows in a rotating circular container are presented. Electromagnetic forcing is applied to induce flow in a layer of fluid of constant depth. Continuously forced as well as decaying…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Y. D. Afanasyev , J. D. C. Craig

Spontaneously created vortex-antivortex pairs are the predominant source of flux noise in high-temperature superconductors. In principle, flux noise measurements allow to check theoretical predictions for both the distribution of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 Carsten Timm

Vortex dynamics in superfluids is investigated in the framework of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The natural motion of the vortex is of cyclotron type, whose frequency is found to be on the order of phonon velocity divided by the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Demircan , P. Ao , Q. Niu

The flux lines dynamics have been investigated on MgB2 bulk superconductors obtained by reactive liquid infiltration by measuring the ac magnetic susceptibility. The fundamental and third harmonics have been studied as a function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Senatore , M. Polichetti , D. Zola , T. Di Matteo , G. Giunchi , S. Pace

Current-voltage measurements of type-II superconductors are described by a coarse-grained model of superconducting vortex dynamics. We find that the power spectra of the voltage fluctuations, and the noise power, are related to the large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin E. Bassler , Joern Davidsen , Maya Paczuski

A novel investigation of the nature of intermittency in incompressible, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is performed by a numerical study of the Navier-Stokes equations constrained on a fractal Fourier set. The robustness of the energy…

We report experimental results on the decay of wave turbulence in an elastic plate obtained by stopping the forcing from a stationary turbulent state. In the stationary case, the forcing is seen to induce some anisotropy and a spectrum in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Miquel , Nicolas Mordant

Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 P. Clark di Leoni , P. J. Cobelli , P. D. Mininni

We discuss a new technique for studying astrophysical turbulence that utilizes the statistics of Doppler-broadened spectral lines. The technique relates the power Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS), i.e. the spectrum of fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan

Superfluid turbulence, often referred to as quantum turbulence, is a fascinating phenomenon for which a satisfactory theoretical framework is lacking. Holographic duality provides a systematic new approach to studying quantum turbulence by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-20 Allan Adams , Paul M. Chesler , Hong Liu

We study the dynamics of vortex lines in Supercondutor/Ferromagnet/Superconductor (SFS) heterostructures at microwave frequencies. We have employed swept-frequency, Corbino-disk and resonant, dielectric-resonator techniques to obtain the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Torokhtii , C. Attanasio , C. Cirillo , E. A. Ilyina , N. Pompeo , S. Sarti , E. Silva

The energy spectrum of the superfluid turbulence without the normal fluid is studied numerically under the vortex filament model. Time evolution of the Taylor-Green vortex is calculated under the full nonlocal Biot-Savart law. It is shown…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsunehiko Araki , Makoto Tsubota , Sergey K. Nemirovskii