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We consider the tails of probability density function (PDF) for the velocity that satisfies Burgers equation driven by a Gaussian large-scale force. The saddle-point approximation is employed in the path integral so that the calculation of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Balkovsky , G. Falkovich , I. Kolokolov , V. Lebedev

In particle-laden turbulent flows the turbulence in carrier fluid phase gets affected by the dispersed particle phase for volume fraction above $10^{-4}$ and hence reverse coupling or two-way coupling becomes relevant in that volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 Swagnik Ghosh , Partha Sarathi Goswami

We have extended our study of the competition between the drive and stabilization of plasma microinstabilities by sheared flow to include electromagnetic effects at low plasma $\beta$ (the ratio of plasma to magnetic pressure). The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. D. J. Cole , S. L. Newton , S. C. Cowley , N. F. Loureiro , D. Dickinson , C. Roach , J. W. Connor

In this Letter we investigate the shape of the probability distribution of column densities (PDF) in molecular clouds. Through the use of low-noise, extinction-calibrated \textit{Herschel}/\textit{Planck} emission data for eight molecular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Lombardi , João Alves , Charles J. Lada

The dynamics of fluctuating electric field structures in the edge of the TJ-II stellarator, that display zonal flow-like traits, is studied. These structures have been shown to be global and affect particle transport dynamically [J.A.…

The probability density function (PDF) of accelerations in turbulence is derived analytically with the help of the multifractal analysis based on generalized entropy, i.e., the Tsallis or the R\'{e}nyi entropy. It is shown that the derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Arimitsu , N. Arimitsu

The velocity gradient tensor can be decomposed into normal straining, pure shearing and rigid rotation tensors, each with distinct symmetry and normality properties. We partition the strength of turbulent velocity gradients based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Rahul Arun , Tim Colonius

We consider the internal dynamics of the polymer molecule which is injected in the chaotic flow with strong mean shear component. The flow geometry corresponds to the recent experiments on the elastic turbulence (Groisman, Steinberg 2000).…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Turitsyn

Microturbulence can produce stationary fine-scale radial corrugations on the plasma density and temperature gradients in magnetic confinement fusion devices. We show that these structures play a significant role in regulating turbulent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ajay C. J , M. J. Pueschel , Justin Ball , David Hatch , Tobias Goerler , Stephan Brunner

We observe the emergence of strong vertical drafts in direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations in a range of parameters of geophysical interest. These structures, which appear intermittently in space and time, generate…

We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-18 Wandrille Ruffenach , Lucas Fery , Bérengère Dubrulle

The Lagrangian velocity statistics of dissipative drift-wave turbulence are investigated. For large values of the adiabaticity (or small collisionality), the probability density function of the Lagrangian acceleration shows exponential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-29 Benjamin Kadoch , Wouter Bos , Kai Schneider

We study the fully nonlinear, nonlocal dynamics of two-dimensional multicomponent vesicles in a shear flow with matched viscosity of the inner and outer fluids. Using a nonstiff, pseudo-spectral boundary integral method, we investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-01 Kai Liu , Gary R. Marple , Shuwang Li , Shravan Veerapaneni , John Lowengrub

Turbulent flows over wavy surfaces give rise to the formation of ripples, dunes and other natural bedforms. To predict how much sediment these flows transport, research has focused mainly on basal shear stress, which peaks upstream of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-17 P. Claudin , M. Louge , B. Andreotti

We use three-dimensional numerical simulations to study self-organization in supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds. Our numerical experiments describe decaying and driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state, sonic Mach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

We explore the structure and statistics of multiphase, magnetized ISM turbulence in the local Milky Way by means of driven periodic box numerical MHD simulations. Using the higher order-accurate piecewise-parabolic method on a local stencil…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-19 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

We focus on the probability distribution function (pdf) $P(\Delta \gamma; \gamma)$ where $\Delta \gamma$ are the {\em measured} strain intervals between plastic events in an athermal strained amorphous solids, and $\gamma$ measures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 H. G. E. Hentschel , Prabhat K. Jaiswal , Itamar Procaccia , Srikanth Sastry

We investigate the drift wave -- zonal flow dynamics in a shearless slab geometry with the new flux-balanced Hasegawa-Wakatani model. As in previous Hasegawa-Wakatani models, we observe a sharp transition from a turbulence dominated regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Di Qi , Andrew J. Majda , Antoine J. Cerfon

In recent works, we proposed a hypothesis that the turbulence in gases could be produced by particles interacting via a potential, and examined the proposed mechanics of turbulence formation in a simple model of two particles for a variety…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-12 Rafail V. Abramov

In this paper, we propose normalizing flows (NF) as a novel probability density function (PDF) turbulence model (NF-PDF model) for the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. We propose to use normalizing flows in two different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-12 Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus A. Adams