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This paper presents a new theory of turbulent mixing in stirred reactors. The degree of homogeneity of a mixed fluid may be characterized by the Kolmogorov micro-scale. The smaller its value, the better homogeneity. The micro-scale scales…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-26 Helmut Z. Baumert , Bernhard Wessling

We report the generation of large coherent vortices via inverse energy cascade in Faraday wave driven turbulence. The motion of floaters in the Faraday waves is three dimensional but its horizontal velocity fluctuations show unexpected…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-29 N. Francois , H. Xia , H. Punzmann , M. Shats

Dissipating of disorder quantum vortices in an annular two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate can form a macroscopic persistent flow of atoms. We propose a protocol to create persistent flow with high winding number based on a double…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-07 Xiyu Chen , Tao Yang , Wen-Li Yang , Wu-Ming Liu

The transition of the flow in a duct of square cross-section is studied. Like in the similar case of the pipe flow, the motion is linearly stable for all Reynolds numbers; this flow is thus a good candidate to investigate the 'bypass' path…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-02 Damien Biau , Houssam Soueid , Alessandro Bottaro

I review the basic physics of ultracold dilute trapped atomic gases, with emphasis on Bose-Einstein condensation and quantized vortices. The hydrodynamic form of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander L. Fetter

Directed percolation (DP), a universality class of continuous phase transitions, has recently been established as a possible route to turbulence in subcritical wall-bounded flows. In canonical straight pipe or planar flows, the transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Sébastien Gomé , Aliénor Rivière , Laurette S. Tuckerman , Dwight Barkley

Transition from a split to a forward kinetic energy cascade system is explored in the context of rotating turbulence using direct numerical simulations with a three-dimensional isotropic random force uncorrelated with the velocity field.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-15 Tiago Pestana , Stefan Hickel

The structural properties of an economical model for a confined plasma turbulence governor are investigated through bifurcation and stability analyses. A close relationship is demonstrated between the underlying bifurcation framework of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ball , R. L. Dewar , H. Sugama

In this paper, the physics of flow instability and turbulent transition in shear flows is studied by analyzing the energy variation of fluid particles under the interaction of base flow with a disturbance. For the first time, a model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Hua-Shu Dou

This paper is the forth part of our series of work, is devoted to the analysis on the multiscales and cascade aspects of the statistical theory of isotropic turbulence based on the new Sedov-type solution. In this paper, we use the explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-24 Zheng Ran

Properties of distributed chaos in superfluid (quantum) turbulence have been studied using the data of recent direct numerical simulations (HVBK two-fluid model for He II, and a moving grid in the frames of Gross-Pitaevskii model of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Bershadskii

We study turbulence in self-gravitating superfluids by performing direct numerical simulations of the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson (GPP) equation, which is also a model for dark matter haloes around galaxies. In the absence of self-gravity,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-05 Sanjay Shukla

We present a theoretical study of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless like phase transition in lattices of nonequilibrium photon condensates. Starting from linearized fluctuation theory and the properties of vortices, we propose an analytical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-27 Vladimir N. Gladilin , Michiel Wouters

We investigate the process of formation of large-scale structures in a turbulent flow confined in a thin layer. By means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations, forced at an intermediate scale, we obtain a split of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-15 Stefano Musacchio , Guido Boffetta

In two-dimensional turbulence systems, the emergence of large-scale structures holds profound physical implications, particularly as it indicates the occurrence of inverse energy cascades, thereby garnering significant attention. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-29 Wei-Can Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Yu Tian , Makoto Tsubota , Hua-Bi Zeng

Upon decreasing the Reynolds number, plane Couette flow first forms alternately turbulent and laminar oblique bands out of featureless turbulence below some upper threshold R_t. These bands exist down to a global stability threshold R_g…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-06 Paul Manneville

Investigations of counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow (TCF) in the narrow gap limit are conducted in a very large aspect ratio apparatus. The phase diagram is presented and compared to that obtained by Andereck et al. The spiral turbulence…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Prigent , O. Dauchot

The physical nature of compressible turbulence is of fundamental importance in a variety of astrophysical settings. We present the first direct evidence that mean kinetic energy cascades conservatively beyond a transitional "conversion"…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hussein Aluie , Shengtai Li , Hui Li

We study the cascading of fast MHD modes in magnetically dominated plasma by performing one-dimensional (1D) dynamical simulations. We find that the cascading becomes more efficient as an angle between wave vector and underlying magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. K. Suzuki , A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak

We study the normal modes and the stability of two component condensates in a phase separated regime. In such a regime the system can undergo a quantum phase transition upon the change of interaction strength between bosons of the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Siu-Tat Chui