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Weak wave turbulence has been observed on a thin elastic plate in previous work. Here we report theoretical, experimental and numerical studies of wave turbulence in a thin elastic plate submitted to increasing tension. When increasing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Roumaissa Hassain , Nicolas Mordant , Benjamin Miquel , Giorgio Krstulovic , Gustavo Düring

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) entered a region of the sub-Alfvenic solar wind during encounter 8 and we present the first detailed analysis of low-frequency turbulence properties in this novel region. The magnetic field and flow velocity vectors…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 G. P. Zank , L. -L. Zhao , L. Adhikri , D. Telloni , J. C. Kasper , M. Stevens , A. Rahmati , S. D. Bale

It is well known that wave collapses can emerge from the focusing one-dimensional (1-D) Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak (MMT) model as a result of modulational instability. However, how these wave collapses affect the spectral properties and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-29 Ashleigh Simonis , Yulin Pan

We study the inverse energy transfer in forced two-dimensional (2D) Navier--Stokes turbulence in a doubly periodic domain. It is shown that an inverse energy cascade that carries a nonzero fraction of the injected energy to the large scales…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuong V. Tran , Theodore G. Shepherd

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

Is there really such a thing as weak turbulence? Here we analyze turbulence of weakly interacting waves using the tools of information theory. It offers a unique perspective for comparing thermal equilibrium and turbulence: the mutual…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-09 Gregory Falkovich , Michal Shavit

On the framework of relativistic force-free magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, we explore the fundamental properties of strong and weak turbulent cascades using high-resolution numerical simulations in the presence of a uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Na-Na Gao , Jian-Fu Zhang , Jungyeon Cho

We present a phenomenological model of imbalanced MHD turbulence in an incompressible magnetofluid. The steady-state cascades, of waves traveling in opposite directions along the mean magnetic field, carry unequal energy fluxes to small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich , S. Sridhar

Under the basic assumption that the observed turbulent motions in molecular clouds are Alfvenic waves or turbulence, we emphasize that the Doppler broadening of molecular line profiles directly measures the velocity amplitudes of the waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Taoling Xie

We report an experimental investigation of the effect of finite depth on the statistical properties of wave turbulence at the surface of water in the gravity-capillary range. We tune the wave dispersion and the level of nonlinearity by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-15 Roumaissa Hassaini , Nicolas Mordant

We study experimentally the dynamics of long waves among turbulent bending waves in a thin elastic plate set into vibration by a monochromatic forcing at a frequency $f_0$. This frequency is chosen large compared with the characteristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-16 Benjamin Miquel , Antoine Naert , Sébastien Aumaître

We study the growth of small-scale inhomogeneities of the density of particles floating in weakly nonlinear, small-amplitude, surface waves. Despite the amplitude smallness, the accumulated effect of the long-time evolution may produce…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-23 M. Vucelja , I. Fouxon

We study numerically small-scale reconnection events in kinetic, low-frequency, quasi-2D turbulence (termed kinetic-Alfv\'en turbulence). Using 2D particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate that such turbulence generates reconnection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Cristian Vega , Vadim Roytershteyn , Gian Luca Delzanno , Stanislav Boldyrev

Recent numerical work on the fate of plasma instabilities in weakly-coupled non-Abelian gauge theory has shown the development of a cascade of energy from long to short wavelengths. This cascade has a steady-state spectrum, analogous to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 Peter Arnold , Guy D. Moore

It is shown that a three-dimensional (3D) modified-kinetic Alfv\'en waves (m-KAWs) can propagate in the form of Alfv\'enic tornadoes characterized by plasma density whirls or magnetic flux ropes carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). By…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 P. K. Shukla

The question of the relative importance of coherent structures and waves has for a long time attracted a great deal of interest in astrophysical plasma turbulence research, with a more recent focus on kinetic scale dynamics. Here we utilize…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 D. Groselj , C. H. K. Chen , A. Mallet , R. Samtaney , K. Schneider , F. Jenko

Theoretical considerations are made of superfluid turbulence in the Kelvin wave cascade regime at low temperatures (T < 1K) and length scales of the order or smaller than the intervortical distance. The energy spectrum is shown to be in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

We studied formation of charge density wave between valleys in a system with a double-well-like dispersive valence band relevant for the rhombohedral graphene trilayer. In a regime with 2 Fermi surfaces, electron- and hole-like: one of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Igor V. Blinov

The collective effects of microswimmers in active suspensions result in active turbulence, a spatiotemporally chaotic dynamics at mesoscale, which is characterized by the presence of vortices and jets at scales much larger than the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-24 Moritz Linkmann , M. Cristina Marchetti , Guido Boffetta , Bruno Eckhardt

Turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer are key input for the prediction of weather, hydrology, and carbon dioxide concentration. In numerical modelling of turbulent fluxes, a -7/3 power-law scaling in turbulence cospectra is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yu Cheng , Qi Li , Andrey Grachev , Stefania Argentini , Harindra J. S. Fernando , Pierre Gentine