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In the interstellar medium the turbulence is believed to be forced mostly through supernova explosions. In a first approximation these flows can be written as a gradient of a potential being thus devoid of vorticity. There are several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-19 Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

We briefly review helicity dynamics, inverse and bi-directional cascades in fluid and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, with an emphasis on the latter. The energy of a turbulent system, an invariant in the non-dissipative case, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg , J. E. Stawarz , R. Marino

The zonal winds on the surfaces of giant planets vary with latitude. Jupiter and Saturn, for example, have several bands of alternating eastward (prograde) and westward (retrograde) jets relative to the angular velocity of their global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gary A. Glatzmaier , Martha Evonuk , Tamara M. Rogers

This short article describes flow parameters, numerical method, and animations of the fluid dynamics video "LES of an Inclined Jet into a Supersonic Turbulent Crossflow"…

Context. Supersonic disordered flows accompany the formation and evolution of MCs. It has been argued that turbulence can support against gravitational collapse and form hierarchical sub-structures. Aims. We study the time evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Roxana-Adela Chira , Juan~Camilo Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Thomas Henning

The internal interactions of fluids occur at all scales therefore the resulting force fields have no reason to be smooth and differentiable. The release of the differentiability hypothesis has important mathematical consequences, like scale…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Louis de Montera

Understanding turbulence is the key to our comprehension of many natural and technological flow processes. At the heart of this phenomenon lies its intricate multi-scale nature, describing the coupling between different-sized eddies in…

The inverse cascade in two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence exhibits a mysterious phenomenon. Numerical simulations have shown that the nodal isolines of certain scalars actively transported in the flow (eg, the vorticity in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Christopher Eling

In this work we investigate, by means of direct numerical simulations, how rotation affects the bi-dimensionalization of a turbulent flow. We study a thin layer of fluid, forced by a two-dimensional forcing, within the framework of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Enrico Deusebio , Guido Boffetta , Erik Lindborg , Stefano Musacchio

Cosmological fluctuations retain a memory of the physics that generated them in their spatial correlations. The strength of correlations varies smoothly as a function of external kinematics, which is encoded in differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Aaron Hillman , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

Cosmic voids provide a powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe because their dynamics can remain near-linear to the present day. As a result they have the potential to connect large scale structure at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

We present two-dimensional inviscid hydrodynamic simulations of a protoplanetary disk with an embedded planet, emphasizing the evolution of potential vorticity (the ratio of vorticity to density) and its dependence on numerical resolutions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Li , S. Li , J. Koller , B. Wendroff , R. Liska , C. Orban , E. Liang , D. Lin

This study uncovers a striking similarity between massively separated laminar and turbulent flows that develop over a square wing during extreme vortex gust encounters. The evolving large-scale, vortical core structures responsible for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hiroto Odaka , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Kunihiko Taira

At the interface between two fluid layers in relative motion, infinitesimal fluctuations can be exponentially amplified, inducing vorticity and the breakdown of the laminar flow. This process, known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, is…

A novel self-sustaining mechanism is proposed for large-scale helical structures in compressible turbulent flows. The existence of two channels of subgrid-scale and viscosity terms for large-scale helicity evolution is confirmed for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-03 Zheng Yan , Jianchun Wang , Lifeng Wang , Zhu Lei , Junfeng Wu , Junyi Duan , Fulin Tong , Xinliang Li , Changping Yu

I review the nature of three-dimensional collapse in the Zeldovich approximation, how it relates to the underlying nature of the three-dimensional Lagrangian manifold and naturally gives rise to a hierarchical structure formation scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Oliver Hahn

During the evolution of density inhomogeneties in an $\Omega=1$, matter dominated universe, the typical density contrast changes from $\delta\simeq 10^{-4}$ to $\delta\simeq 10^2$. However, during the same time, the typical value of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-17 J. S. Bagla , T. Padmanabhan

Turbulence sustains out-of-equilibrium energy fluxes shaped by conservation laws. Three-dimensional flows conserve energy and sign-indefinite helicity, both being transferred to small scales. Yet in 3D rotating turbulence, energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sébastien Gomé , Anna Frishman

The present study proposes a general kinematic theory for fluid-element rotation and intrinsic vorticity decompositions within the context of vorticity and vortex dynamics. Both the angular velocities of material line and surface elements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Tao Chen , Jie-Zhi Wu , Feng Mao , Tianshu Liu