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The existence of drag reduction by polymer additives, well established for wall-bounded turbulent flows, is controversial in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. To settle this controversy we carry out a high-resolution direct numerical…

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To the naked eye, turbulent flows exhibit whirls of many different sizes. To each size, or scale, corresponds a fraction of the total energy resulting from a cascade in five dimensions: scale, time and three-dimensional space. Understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-23 José I. Cardesa , Alberto Vela-Martín , Javier Jiménez

We derive the exact relation for the energy transfer in three-dimensional compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence. In the long-time limit, we obtain an exact law which expresses the scale-to-scale average energy flux rate in terms of two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-01 Supratik Banerjee , Nahuel Andres

The fluids and polymers have different fundamental symmetries. Namely, the Lagrangian relabeling symmetry of fluids is absent for polymers (while the translational and rotational symmetries are still present). This fact results in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-14 A. Bershadskii

Turbulence in stratified and rotating turbulent flows is characterized by an interplay between waves and eddies, resulting in continuous exchanges between potential and kinetic energy. Here, we study how these processes affect the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-11 Sebastian Gallon , Alessandro Sozza , Fabio Feraco , Raffaele Marino , Alain Pumir

We analyze the energy flux in compressible turbulence by generalizing the exact decomposition recently proposed by Johnson (Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 124, 2020. 104501) to study incompressible turbulent flows. This allows us to characterize…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Chensheng Luo , Le Fang , Jian Fang , Haitao Xu , Alain Pumir , Ping-Fan Yang

We introduce a model for the turbulent energy cascade aimed at studying the effect of dynamical scaling on intermittency. In particular, we show that by slowing down the energy transfer mechanism for fixed energy flux, intermittency…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia

The tendency of turbulent flows to produce fine-scale motions from large-scale energy injection is often viewed as a scale-wise cascade of kinetic energy driven by vorticity stretching. This has been recently evaluated by an exact,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-21 Perry L. Johnson

We use direct numerical simulations to study homogeneous, and isotropic turbulent flows of dilute polymer solutions at high Reynolds and Deborah numbers. We find that for small wavenumbers $k$, the kinetic energy spectrum shows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Marco E Rosti , Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra

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

This study employs three-dimensional particle-resolved simulations of planar shocks passing through a suspension of stationary solid particles to study wake-induced gas-phase velocity fluctuations, termed pseudo-turbulence. Strong coupling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Archana Sridhar , Rodney O. Fox , Jesse Capecelatro

Elastic turbulence (ET), observed in flows of sufficiently elastic polymer solution at small inertia, is characterized by chaotic motions and power-law scaling of energy spectrum ($E$) in both wavenumber ($k$) and frequency ($\omega$):…

The scale-invariant inverse energy cascade is a hallmark of 2D turbulence, with its theoretical energy spectrum observed in both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and laboratory experiments. Under this scale-invariance assumption, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Julie Meunier , Basile Gallet

Turbulence in fluids is an ubiquitous phenomenon, characterized by spontaneous transition of a smooth, laminar flow to rapidly changing, chaotic dynamics. In 1883, Reynolds experimentally demonstrated that, in an initially laminar flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Rafail V. Abramov

Turbulence is a widely observed state of fluid flows, characterized by complex, nonlinear interactions between motions across a broad spectrum of length and time scales. While turbulence is ubiquitous, from teacups to planetary atmospheres,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-28 Adrian van Kan

Turbulence is characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are dissipated. Recently, new experimental, numerical and theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 A. Alexakis , L. Biferale

We investigate experimentally three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic turbulence at scales larger than the forcing scale. We manage to perform a scale separation between the forcing scale and the container size by injecting energy into the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jean-Baptiste Gorce , Eric Falcon

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ricardo Grande , Zaher Hani

Turbulence is an out-of-equilibrium flow state that is characterised by nonzero net fluxes of kinetic energy between different scales of the flow. These fluxes play a crucial role in the formation of characteristic flow structures in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Youri H. Lemm , Xander M. de Wit , Rudie P. J. Kunnen

We consider the efficiency of turbulence, a dimensionless parameter that characterises the fraction of the input energy stored into a turbulent flow field. We first show that the inverse of the efficiency provides an upper bound for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-11 A Lopez , A Barral , G Costa , Q Pikeroen , V Shukla , Bérengère Dubrulle