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This article reviews recent studies of scale interactions in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The present day increase of computing power, which allows for the exploration of different configurations of turbulence in conducting flows, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. D. Mininni

We present a numerical study of turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates within the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We concentrate on the direct energy cascade in forced-dissipated systems. We show that behavior of the system is very sensitive…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-04 Davide Proment , Sergey Nazarenko , Miguel Onorato

Polymeric turbulence, flows of fluids with dilute polymer additives at high Reynolds numbers, exhibits striking deviations from the Kolmogorovean behaviour of Newtonian turbulence. Recent experiments as well as simulations have uncovered a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-30 Alessandro Chiarini , Rahul K. Singh , Marco E. Rosti

Scaling and structural evolutions are contemplated in a new perspective for turbulent channel flows. The total integrated turbulence kinetic energy remains constant when normalized by the friction velocity squared, while the total…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 T. -W. Lee

An efficient approach for extracting 3D local averages in spherical subdomains is proposed and applied to study the intermittency of small-scale velocity and scalar fields in direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence. We focus on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-12 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

In turbulent flows kinetic energy is spread by nonlinear interactions over a broad range of scales. Energy transfer may proceed either toward small scales or in the reverse direction. The latter case is peculiar of two-dimensional (2D)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luca Biferale , Stefano Musacchio , Federico Toschi

In this letter we present numerical and experimental results on the scaling properties of velocity turbulent fields in the range of scales where viscous effects are acting. A generalized version of Extended Self Similarity capable of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , S. Ciliberto , M. V. Struglia , R. Tripiccione

Scale-space energy density function, $E(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{r})$, is defined as the derivative of the two-point velocity correlation. The function E describes the turbulent kinetic energy density of scale r at a location x and can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 S. Arun , A. Sameen , Balaji Srinivasan , Sharath S. Girimaji

The statistical properties of turbulence are considered to be universal at sufficiently small length scales, i. e., independent of boundary conditions and large-scale forces acting on the fluid. Analyzing data from numerical simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Wolfram Schmidt , Christoph Federrath , Ralf Klessen

The non-linear hydrodynamic stability of thin, compressible, Keplerian disks is studied on the large two-dimensional compressible scale, using a high-order accuracy spectral method. We show that purely hydrodynamic perturbations, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Godon , Mario Livio

The energy cascade in turbulence, first statistically described by Richardson (1922) and Kolmogorov (1941), lacked connection to the underlying fluid dynamics. Recent numerical studies of Goto et al. (2017) and Yoneda et al. (2022) revealed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Afifah Maya Iknaningrum , Pen-Yuan Hsu , Tsuyoshi Yoneda , Hirofumi Notsu

The possibility of subcritical behaviour in the geostrophic turbulence regime of rapidly rotating thermally driven convection is explored. In this regime a non-local inverse energy transfer may compete with the more traditional and local…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Benjamin Favier , Céline Guervilly , Edgar Knobloch

Understanding the small-scale structure of incompressible turbulence and its implications for the non-local pressure field is one of the fundamental challenges in fluid mechanics. Intense velocity gradient structures tend to cluster on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-12 Dimitar G. Vlaykov , Michael Wilczek

We study the statistics of free-surface turbulence at large Reynolds numbers produced by direct numerical simulations in a fluid layer at different thickness with fixed characteristic forcing scale. We observe the production of a transient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-12 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , M. E. Rosti

In multiphase flows, kinetic and interfacial energies coexist, and their mutual conversion can strongly influence the overall energy balance. However, in statistically steady flows these energy reservoirs remain constant, making such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Thiesset , Jonathan Vahé

We investigate the transfer of energy from large scales to small scales in fully developed forced three-dimensional MHD-turbulence by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations in the absence of an externally imposed uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

In elastic-wave turbulence, strong turbulence appears in small wave numbers while weak turbulence does in large wave numbers. Energy transfers in the coexistence of these turbulent states are numerically investigated in both of the Fourier…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-28 Naoto Yokoyama , Masanori Takaoka

A general proof that more energy flows upscale than downscale in two-dimensional (2D) turbulence and barotropic quasi-geostrophic (QG) turbulence is given. A proof is also given that in Surface QG turbulence, the reverse is true. Though…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Eleftherios Gkioulekas , Ka Kit Tung

We introduce a novel approach to derive compressibility corrections for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. Using this approach, we derive variable-property corrections for wall-bounded flows that take into account the distinct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-17 Asif Manzoor Hasan , Alex Jose Elias , Florian Menter , Rene Pecnik

The rate of energy dissipation in solutions of the body-forced 3-d incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is rigorously estimated with a focus on its dependence on the nature of the driving force. For square integrable body forces the high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexey Cheskidov , Charles R. Doering , Nikola P. Petrov