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We study forced, rapildy rotating and stably stratified turbulence in an elongated domain using an asymptotic expansion at simultaneously low Rossby number $Ro\ll1$ and large domain height compared to the energy injection scale,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-12 Adrian van Kan , Alexandros Alexakis

Navier-Stokes turbulence subject to solid-body rotation is studied by high-resolution direct numerical simulations (DNS) of freely decaying and stationary flows. Setups characterized by different Rossby numbers are considered. In agreement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Thiele , W. -C. Müller

In turbulence phenomena, including the quantum turbulence in superfluids, an energy flux flows from large to small length scales, composing a cascade of energy. A universal characteristic of turbulent flows is the existence of a range of…

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

We observe electro-hydrodynamically driven turbulent flows at low Reynolds numbers in a two-fluid emulsion consisting of micron-scale droplets. In the presence of electric fields, the droplets produce interacting hydrodynamic flows which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-22 Atul Varshney , Mayur Sathe , Shankar Ghosh , Anand Yethiraj , S. Bhattacharya , J. B. Joshi

The bottleneck phenomenon in three-dimensional turbulence is generally associated with the dissipation range of the energy spectrum. In the present work, it is shown by using a two-point closure theory, that in two-dimensional turbulence it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-02 Wouter J. T. Bos , Jean-Pierre Bertoglio

Freely decaying relativistic force-free turbulence is studied for the first time. We initiate the magnetic field at a short wavelength and simulate its relaxation toward equilibrium on two and three dimensional periodic domains, in both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-02 Jonathan Zrake , William E. East

It is well known that an inverse turbulent cascade in a finite ($2 \pi \times 2 \pi$) two-dimensional periodic domain leads to the emergence of a system-sized coherent vortex dipole. We report a numerical hyperviscous study of the spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-11 Vladimir Parfenyev

We present a numerical study of turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates within the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We concentrate on the direct energy cascade in forced-dissipated systems. We show that behavior of the system is very sensitive…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-04 Davide Proment , Sergey Nazarenko , Miguel Onorato

The problem of inverse statistics (statistics of distances for which the signal fluctuations are larger than a certain threshold) in differentiable signals with power law spectrum, $E(k) \sim k^{-\alpha}$, $3 \le \alpha < 5$, is discussed.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Biferale , M. Cencini , A. Lanotte , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

A turbulent flow is maintained by an external supply of kinetic energy, which is eventually dissipated into heat at steep velocity gradients. The scale at which energy is supplied greatly differs from the scale at which energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-30 Haitao Xu , Alain Pumir , Eberhard Bodenschatz

We investigate the energy cascade in wall-bounded turbulence by analysing the interscale transfer between streamwise and spanwise length scales in periodic channels. This transfer originates from the nonlinear interactions in the advective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-10 Joy Chen , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral

Helicity, as one of only two inviscid invariants in three-dimensional turbulence, plays an important role in the generation and evolution of turbulence. From the traditional viewpoint, there exists only one channel of helicity cascade…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-29 Zheng Yan , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu , Shiyi Chen

The Reynolds number dependency of intermittency for 2D turbulence is studied in a flowing soap film. The Reynolds number used here is the Taylor microscale Reynolds number R_{\lambda}, which ranges from 20 to 800. Strong intermittency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-30 R. T. Cerbus , W. I. Goldburg

How turbulent convective fluctuations organise to form large-scale structures in planetary atmospheres remains a question that eludes quantitative answers. The assumption that this process is the result of an inverse cascade was suggested…

Properties of the turbulent cascade of kinetic energy are studied using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional hydrodynamic decaying turbulence with a moderate Reynolds number and the initial Mach number $M=1$. Compressible and…

We investigate the critical transition from an inverse cascade of energy to a forward energy cascade in a two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic flow as the ratio of magnetic to mechanical forcing amplitude is varied. It is found that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-09 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Alexandros Alexakis

In turbulence, for neutral or conducting fluids, a large ratio of scales is excited because of the possible occurrence of inverse cascades to large, global scales together with direct cascades to small, dissipative scales, as observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-03 Annick Pouquet , Julia E. Stawarz , Duane Rosenberg

We present a numerical analysis of an incompressible decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence run on a grid of 1536^3 points. The Taylor Reynolds number at the maximum of dissipation is ~1100, and the initial condition is a superposition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

The inverse energy cascade in Charney-Hasegawa-Mima turbulence is investigated. Kolmogorov law for the third order velocity structure function is shown to be independent on the Rossby number, at variance with the energy spectrum, as shown…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boffetta , F. De Lillo , S. Musacchio