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Nonlinear triadic interactions are at the heart of our understanding of turbulence. In flows where waves are present modes must not only be in a triad to interact, but their frequencies must also satisfy an extra condition: the interactions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni

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 study the transition from fluid at rest to turbulence in a rotating water cylinder. We show that the energy, injected at a given height, is transported by inertial wave packets through the fluid volume. These waves propagate at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Itamar Kolvin , Kobi Cohen , Yuval Vardi , Eran Sharon

Transition from a split to a forward kinetic energy cascade system is explored in the context of rotating turbulence using direct numerical simulations with a three-dimensional isotropic random force uncorrelated with the velocity field.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-15 Tiago Pestana , Stefan Hickel

While heat transport by baroclinic turbulence in oceans and planetary atmospheres is well described by a two-layer model, the relative depth of the two layers varies greatly depending on the situation of interest, making it an important…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-06 Gabriel Hadjerci , Basile Gallet

A robust energy transfer mechanism is found in nonlinear wave systems, which favours transfers towards modes interacting via non-resonant triads, applicable in meteorology, nonlinear optics and plasma wave turbulence. Transfer efficiency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-03 Miguel D. Bustamante , Brenda Quinn

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

We analyze analytically and numerically the scale invariant stationary solution to the internal wave kinetic equation. Our analysis of the resonant energy transfers shows that the leading order contributions are given (i) by triads with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-01 Giovanni Dematteis , Yuri V. Lvov

Recent studies indicate that altimetric observations of the ocean's mesoscale eddy field reflect the combined influence of surface buoyancy and interior potential vorticity anomalies. The former have a surface-trapped structure, while the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. S. Smith , J. Vanneste

Motivated by the discrepancy between satellite observations of coherent westward propagating surface features and Rossby wave theory, this paper revisits the planetary wave propagation problem, taking into account the effects of lateral…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Xiao Xiao , K. Shafer Smith , Shane R. Keating

Quasigeostrophic turbulence on a beta-plane with a finite deformation radius is studied nu- merically, with particular emphasis on frequency and combined wavenumber-frequency do- main analyses. Under suitable conditions, simulations with…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-08 D. L. Suhas , Jai Sukhatme

We present experimental evidence for a double cascade of kinetic energy in a statistically stationary rotating turbulence experiment. Turbulence is generated by a set of vertical flaps which continuously injects velocity fluctuations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Antoine Campagne , Basile Gallet , Frédéric Moisy , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

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

We investigate the locality of interactions in hydrodynamic turbulence using data from a direct numerical simulation on a grid of 1024^3 points; the flow is forced with the Taylor-Green vortex. An inertial range for the energy is obtained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Alexakis , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

This paper explores decaying turbulence beneath surface waves that is initially isotropic and shear-free. We start by presenting phenomenology revealed by wave-averaged numerical simulations: an accumulation of angular momentum in coherent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-10 Gregory L. Wagner , Navid C. Constantinou

Ocean motions at frequencies of the internal wave band are generally associated with freely propagating waves that are supported by stable vertical stratification in density. Previous analyses of yearlong current observations from the Bay…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Hans van Haren , Leo Maas

The influence of a toroidal magnetic field on the dynamics of Rossby waves in a thin layer of ideal conductive fluid on a rotating sphere is studied in the "shallow water" magnetohydrodynamic approximation for the first time. Dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester , B. M. Shergelashvili

We present a simple model for the turbulent kinetic energy behavior of subsonic plasma turbulence undergoing isotropic three-dimensional compression, such as may exist in various inertial confinement fusion experiments or astrophysical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Seth Davidovits , Nathaniel J. Fisch

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

Numerical simulations of a thin layer of turbulent flow in stably stratified conditions within the Boussinesq approximation have been performed. The statistics of energy transfer among scales have been investigated for different values of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Sozza , G. Boffetta , P. Muratore-Ginanneschi , S. Musacchio