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We investigate numerically the statistics of quantized vortices in two-dimensional quantum turbulence using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We find that a universal $-5/3$ scaling law in the turbulent energy spectrum is intimately connected…

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We study clustering in a stochastic system of particles sliding down a fluctuating surface in one and two dimensions. In steady state, the density-density correlation function is a scaling function of separation and system size.This scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mustansir Barma

A large number of astronomical phenomena exhibit remarkably similar scaling relations. The most well-known of these is the mass distribution $\mathrm{d} N/\mathrm{d} M\propto M^{-2}$ which (to first order) describes stars, protostellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 David Guszejnov , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

We investigate the relevance of {\sl self-organized criticality (SOC)} models in previously published empirical datasets, which includes statistical observations in astrophysics, geophysics, biophysics, sociophysics, and informatics. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Felix Scholkmann

An inverse turbulent cascade in a restricted two-dimensional periodic domain leads to the creation of condensate -- a pair of coherent system-size vortices. We perform extensive numerical simulations of this system and carry on detailed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-10 Jason Laurie , Guido Boffetta , Gregory Falkovich , Igor Kolokolov , Vladimir Lebedev

Effects of quasi-point vortices on the inertial range of scales in homogeneous two-dimensional turbulence (classic and quantum) have been studied using the notion of distributed chaos. Results of direct numerical simulations of decaying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-10 A. Bershadskii

We show that some statistical properties of forced two-dimensional turbulence have an important sensitivity to the form of large-scale dissipation which is required to damp the inverse cascade. We consider three models of large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-23 Yue-Kin Tsang

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

The probability density function (PDF) of velocity fluctuations is studied experimentally for grid turbulence in a systematical manner. At small distances from the grid, where the turbulence is still developing, the PDF is sub-Gaussian. At…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mouri , M. Takaoka , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima

The spacing intervals of adjacent Riemann zeta zeros(non-trivial) exhibit fractal(irregular) fluctuations generic to dynamical systems in nature such as fluid flows, heart beat patterns, stock market price index, etc., and are associated…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Selvam

In this study we explore the statistics of pressure fluctuations in kinetic collisionless turbulence. A 2.5D kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of decaying turbulence is used to investigate pressure balance via the evolution of…

Astrophysical systems, such as clumps that form star clusters share a density profile that is close to $\rho \sim r^{-2}$. We prove analytically this density profile is the result of the scale-free nature of the gravitational collapse.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 Guang-Xing Li

The significance of small-scale forcing of particles on the carrier two-dimensional turbulent flow has been shown to influence the spectral scaling properties of the carrier fluid. We investigate possible consequences of such two-way…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-22 Harshit Joshi , Amal Manoharan , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

In this chapter of the e-book "Self-Organized Criticality Systems" we summarize some theoretical approaches to self-organized criticality (SOC) phenomena that involve percolation as an essential key ingredient. Scaling arguments, random…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-24 Alexander V. Milovanov

We present experimental results on simultaneous space-time measurements for the gravity wave turbulence in a large laboratory flume. We compare these results with predictions of the weak turbulence theory (WTT) based on random waves, as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Nazarenko , S. Lukaschuk , S. McLelland , P. Denissenko

Two dimensional stochastic time model of scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulent transport is studied. Instability arisen in the system with respect to the stochastic perturbations of both either density or vorticity reveals itself in the strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

Understanding the dynamics of material objects advected by turbulent flows is a long standing question in fluid dynamics. In this perspective article we focus on the characterization of the statistical properties of non-interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yaning Fan , Cheng Wang , Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini

The global energy fluctuations of a low density gas granular gas in the homogeneous cooling state near its clustering instability are studied by means of molecular dynamics simulations. The relative dispersion of the fluctuations is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Javier Brey , M. I. Garcia de Soria , P. Maynar , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

The statistical properties of the intermittent signal generated by a recent model for self-organized-criticality (SOC) are examined. A successful comparison is made with previously published results of the equivalent quantities measured in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Sattin , Marco Baiesi

Using large scale numerical simulations we analyze the statistical properties of fracture in the two dimensional random spring model and compare it with its scalar counterpart: the random fuse model. We first consider the process of crack…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala , Stefano Zapperi , Srdan Simunovic