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According to Richardson's cascade description of turbulence, large vortices break up to form smaller ones, thereby transferring kinetic energy towards smaller scales. Energy dissipation occurs at the smallest scales due to viscosity. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-12 Tamás Kalmár-Nagy , Bendegúz Dezső Bak

The evolution of the ground state wave function of a zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is well described by the Hamiltonian Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. Using a set of appropriately interleaved unitary collision-streaming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 George Vahala , Jeffrey Yepez , Linda Vahala , Min Soe , Bo Zhang , Sean Ziegeler

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

Despite the prominence of Onsager's point-vortex model as a statistical description of 2D classical turbulence, a first-principles development of the model for a realistic superfluid has remained an open problem. Here we develop a mapping…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-18 Thomas P. Billam , Matthew T. Reeves , Brian P. Anderson , Ashton S. Bradley

The central problem of fully developed turbulence is the energy cascading process. It has revisited all attempts at a full physical understanding or mathematical formulation. The main reason for this failure are related to the large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-13 Zheng Ran

Generic scaling laws, such as the Kolmogorov's 5/3-law, are milestone achievements of turbulence research in classical fluids. For quantum fluids such as atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluid helium, and superfluid neutron stars,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuan Tang , Shiran Bao , Wei Guo

In three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence forced at large length scales, a constant energy flux $ \Pi_u $ flows from large scales to intermediate scales, and then to small scales. It is well known that for multiscale energy injection and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mahendra K. Verma

In this paper, with the aid of direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced turbulence in a periodic domain, we mathematically reformulate the Kolmogorov-Richardson energy cascade in terms of vortex stretching. By using the description, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-16 Tsuyoshi Yoneda , Susumu Goto , Tomonori Tsuruhashi

While in classical turbulence helicity depletes nonlinearity and can alter the evolution of turbulent flows, in quantum turbulence its role is not fully understood. We present numerical simulations of the free decay of a helical quantum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni , M. E. Brachet

We present two phenomenological models for 2D turbulence in which the energy spectrum obeys a nonlinear fourth-order and a second-order differential equations respectively. Both equations respect the scaling properties of the original…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor S. L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko

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

Turbulent convection is ubiquitous in fluid systems. In particular, multi-physical convection problems involve mass, heat, and particle transfer. When the particles are charged and driven by a high-voltage electric field, both buoyancy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Owen Hutchinson , Katerina Kostova , Jian Wu , Yifei Guan

The study of superfluid quantum vortices has long been an important area of research, with previous work naturally focusing on two-dimensional and three-dimensional systems, where rotation stabilises point vortices and line vortices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-20 Ben McCanna , Hannah M. Price

The properties of energy transfer in the kinetic range of plasma turbulence have fundamental implications on the turbulent heating of space and astrophysical plasmas. It was recently suggested that magnetic reconnection may be responsible…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Raffaello Foldes , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Raffaele Marino , Enrico Camporeale

Starting from the classical formulation of the weak turbulence theory in a density stratified fluid, we derive a simplified version of the kinetic equation of internal gravity wave turbulence. This equation allows us to uncover scaling laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat flows spontaneously from a high-temperature entity to a lower-temperature one. Yet, recent advances have demonstrated that quantum correlations between a system and its thermal environment…

In low-temperature superfluid helium, viscosity is zero, and vorticity takes the form of discrete, vortex filaments of fixed circulation and atomic thickness. We present numerical evidence of three-dimensional inverse energy transfer from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-20 Andrew W. Baggaley , Carlo F. Barenghi , Yuri A. Sergeev

Scale-invariant fluxes are the defining property of turbulent cascades, but their direct measurement is a notorious problem. Here we perform such a measurement for a direct energy cascade in a turbulent quantum gas. Using a time-periodic…

It is known that rapidly rotating turbulent flows are characterized by the emergence of simultaneous upscale and downscale energy transfer. Indeed, both numerics and experiments show the formation of large-scale anisotropic vortices…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-28 Michele Buzzicotti , Hussein Aluie , Luca Biferale , Moritz Linkmann

The concept of inverse energy cascades has played a central role in the development of turbulence theory, with applications in two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional flows. We examine the presence or absence of inverse energy cascades in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alexandros Alexakis , Raffaele Marino , Pablo D. Mininni