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We show theoretically that the mean turbulent dynamics can be described by a kinetic theory representation with a single free relaxation time that depends on space and time. A proper kinetic equation is constructed from averaging the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-31 Hudong Chen , Ilya Staroselsky , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , V. Yakhot

Fully-developed incompressible Navier-Stokes turbulence in three dimensions is a dissipative dynamical system that exhibits strong departure from absolute equilibrium. Nevertheless, several kinds of representation by Tsallis equilibria have…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshiyuki Gotoh , Robert H. Kraichnan

Turbulence -- ubiquitous in nature and engineering alike [1-5] -- is traditionally viewed as an intrinsically inertial phenomenon, emerging only when the Reynolds number (Re), which quantifies the ratio of inertial to dissipative forces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ziyue Yu , Xinyu Si , Lei Fang

The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are considered. We find that there exist infinite non-trivial solutions of static Euler equations. Moreover there exist random solutions of static Euler equations. Provided Reynolds number is large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yongqian Han

This letter presents a kinetic closure of the filtered Boltzmann--BGK equation, paving the way toward an alternative description of turbulence. The closure retains the turbulent subfilter stress tensor without a separate Smagorinsky-type…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Francesco Marson , Orestis Malaspinas

We present an approach to turbulence closure based on mixing length theory with three-dimensional fluctuations against a two-dimensional background. This model is intended to be rapidly computable for implementation in stellar evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Adam S. Jermyn , Pierre Lesaffre , Christopher A. Tout , Shashikumar M. Chitre

This paper reports several new classes of weakly unstable recurrent solutions of the 2+1-dimensional Euler equation on a square domain with periodic boundary conditions. These solutions have a number of remarkable properties which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-31 Dmitriy Zhigunov , Roman O. Grigoriev

This thesis deals with the investigation of a H(div)-conforming hybrid discontinuous Galerkin discretization for incompressible turbulent flows. The discretization method provides many physical and solving-oriented properties, which may be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xaver Mooslechner

A new exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equation is derived for the compressible flows which are far from equilibrium in the limit of extremely low shear viscosity and relatively large volume viscosity. The closed description of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-05 Sergey G. Chefranov , Artem S. Chefranov

Turbulence remains one of the central open problems in classical physics, largely due to the absence of a closed dynamical description of the Reynolds stress. Existing approaches typically rely either on local constitutive assumptions or on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Alejandro Sevilla

Experiments (Mullin and Kreswell, 2005) show that transition to turbulence can start at Reynolds numbers lower than it is predicted by the linear stability analysis - the subcritical transition to turbulence. To explain these observations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-08 K. Y. Volokh

Singularity of Navier-Stokes equations is uncovered for the first time which explains the mechanism of transition of a smooth laminar flow to turbulence. It is found that when an inflection point is formed on the velocity profile in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-20 Hua-Shu Dou

ONE of the main goals in the development of theory of chaotic dynamical system has been to make progress in understanding of turbulence. The attempts to related turbulence to chaotic motion got strong impetus from the celebrated paper by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-16 Zheng Ran

A data-driven framework for formulation of closures of the Reynolds-Average Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations is presented. In recent years, the scientific community has turned to machine learning techniques to distill a wealth of highly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 S. Beetham , J. Capecelatro

We consider three-dimensional stochastically forced Navier-Stokes equations subjected to white-in-time (colored-in-space) forcing in the absence of boundaries. Upper and lower bounds of the mean value of the time-averaged energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Yat Tin Chow , Ali Pakzad

Traditional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) closures, based on the Boussinesq eddy viscosity hypothesis and calibrated on canonical flows, often yield inaccurate predictions of both mean flow and turbulence statistics. Here, we…

The development of turbulence closure models, parametrizing the influence of small non-resolved scales on the dynamics of large resolved ones, is an outstanding theoretical challenge with vast applicative relevance. We present a closure,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-26 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Corbetta , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi

In recent works, we proposed a hypothesis that the turbulence in gases could be produced by particles interacting via a potential, and examined the proposed mechanics of turbulence formation in a simple model of two particles for a variety…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-12 Rafail V. Abramov

The subject of this work is the instability mechanism of simple shear flows, like Hagen-Poiseuille pipe flow, which is a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics [1,2]. A possible analogy with phenomenological theory of ideal plasticity in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Ananiev

Strongly nonlinear dynamics, from fluid turbulence to quantum chromodynamics, have long constituted some of the most challenging problems in theoretical physics. This review describes a unified theoretical framework, the loop space…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Alexander Migdal