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We use a coarse-graining approach to prove that inter-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence is dominated by local interactions. Locality here means that interactions between disparate scales decay at least as fast as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-04 Hussein Aluie

We formulate a coarse-graining approach to the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids at a continuum of length-scales. In this methodology, effective equations are derived for the observable velocity and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Hussein Aluie

The proper scale decomposition in flows with significant density variations is not as straightforward as in incompressible flows, with many possible ways to define a `length-scale.' A choice can be made according to the so-called…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-23 Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

A model reduction technique based on an optimization principle is employed to coarse-grain inviscid, incompressible fluid dynamics in two dimensions. In this reduction the spectrally-truncated vorticity equation defines the microdynamics,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Bruce Turkington , Qian-Yong Chen , Simon Thalabard

In many far-from-equilibrium biological systems, energy injected by irreversible processes at microscopic scales propagates to larger scales to fulfill important biological functions. But given dissipative dynamics at the microscale, how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Qiwei Yu , Matthew P. Leighton , Christopher W. Lynn

A coarse-graining framework is implemented to analyze nonlinear processes, measure energy transfer rates and map out the energy pathways from simulated global ocean data. Traditional tools to measure the energy cascade from turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Hussein Aluie , Matthew Hecht , Geoffrey K. Vallis

Recent studies based on simulations of the Boussinesq equations indicate that stratified turbulent flows can develop large-scale intermittency in the velocity and temperature fields, as detected in the atmosphere and oceans. In particular,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-16 Raffaello Foldes , Raffaele Marino , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Enrico Camporeale

Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and turbulent potential energy (TPE) at different scales $\ell$ in sheared, stably stratified turbulence are analyzed using a filtering approach. Competing effects in the flow are considered, along…

We study the effect of coarse-graining the dynamics of a pressureless selfgravitating fluid (coarse-grained dust) in the context of cosmological perturbation theory, both in the Eulerian und Lagrangian framework. We obtain recursion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-08 Cora Uhlemann , Michael Kopp

In the present paper, we use a coarse-graining approach to investigate the nonlinear redistribution of free energy in both position and scale space for weakly collisional magnetised plasma turbulence. For this purpose, we use…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Bogdan Teaca , Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Daniel Told , Alejandro Banon Navarro , Frank Jenko

We prove that inter-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence is dominated by local interactions. In particular, our results preclude direct transfer of kinetic energy from large-scales directly to dissipation scales, such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hussein Aluie

Data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

We address the physical meaning of hydrodynamic approach related with the coarse graining scale in the frame work of variational formulation. We point out that the local thermal equilibrium does not necessarily play a critical role in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Kodama , T. Koide

In this work we use a multi-scale framework to calculate the fluidization threshold of three-dimensional cohesive granulates under shear forces exerted by a creeping flow. A continuum model of flow through porous media provides an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-30 Ilenia Battiato , Jürgen Vollmer

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ricardo Grande , Zaher Hani

In this paper we explore a possibility that all transport turbulent models are contained in a coarse-grained kinetic equation. Building on a recent work by H.Chen et al (2004), we account for fluctuations of a single -point probability…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-07-05 Victor Yakhot

Understanding the emergence of macroscopic irreversible hydrodynamics from the reversible unitary dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge. Conventional approaches often force spin density dynamics into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Seiki Saito

The available potential energy (APE) of a fluid can be defined locally in space, providing useful insights into both the energetics and dynamics of stratified flows ranging from three-dimensional turbulence to planetary scale circulations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Jacob O. Wenegrat , Tomas Chor , Roy Barkan

A background-independent route towards a universal continuum limit in discrete models of quantum gravity proceeds through a background-independent form of coarse graining. This review provides a pedagogical introduction to the conceptual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-03 Astrid Eichhorn , Tim Koslowski , Antonio D. Pereira

Previously, using an incompressible von K\'arm\'an-Howarth formalism, the behavior of cross-scale energy transfer in magnetic reconnection and turbulence was found to be essentially identical to each other, independent of an external…

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