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Rapidly rotating, stably stratified three-dimensional inviscid flows conserve both energy and potential enstrophy. We show that in such flows, the forward cascade of potential enstrophy imposes anisotropic constraints on the wavenumber…

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We report an exact unique constant-flux power-law analytical solution of the wave kinetic equation for the turbulent energy spectrum, $E(k)=C_1 \sqrt{\varepsilon\, a c_{\rm s} }/k$, of acoustic waves in 2D with almost linear dispersion law,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Adam Griffin , Giorgio Krstulovic , Victor L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko

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

The effects of turbulent dynamic range on scalar mixing in stably stratified turbulence are investigated by an adaptation of the theoretical passive scalar modelling arguments of Beguier et al. (1978) and demonstrated statistically using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-05 G. D. Portwood , S. M. de Bruyn Kops , C. P. Caulfield

In quasi-static MHD, experiments and numerical simulations reveal that the energy spectrum is steeper than Kolmogorov's $k^{-5/3}$ spectrum. To explain this observation, we construct turbulence models based on variable energy flux, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mahendra K. Verma , K. Sandeep Reddy

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

Experiments and numerical simulations reveal that in the forward cascade regime, the energy spectrum of two-dimensional turbulence with Ekman friction deviates from Kraichnan's prediction of $k^{-3}$ power spectrum. In this letter we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mahendra K. Verma

In $2048^3$ simulation of quantum turbulence within the Gross-Pitaevskii equation we demonstrate that the large scale motions have a classical Kolmogorov-1941 energy spectrum E(k) ~ k^{-5/3}, followed by an energy accumulation with E(k) ~…

In this review we summarise the current status of the quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. The energy spectrum is steeper than Kolmogorov's $k^{-5/3}$ spectrum due to the decrease of the kinetic energy flux with wavenumber $k$ as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 Mahendra K. Verma

We numerically study two-dimensional quantum turbulence with a Gross--Pitaevskii model. With the energy initially accumulated at large scale, quantum turbulence with many quantized vortex points is generated. Due to the lack of enstrophy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Ryu Numasato , Makoto Tsubota , Victor S. L'vov

An ensemble model of turbulence is proposed. The ensemble consists of flow fields in which the flux of an inviscid conserved quantity, such as energy (or enstrophy in two-dimensional flow fields), across the wavenumber $k$ is a constant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Kyo Yoshida

We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to model the development of turbulence in a quantum fluid confined by a cuboid box potential, and forced by shaking along one axis. We observe the development of isotropic turbulence from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Tommy Z. Fischer , Ashton S. Bradley

The pressure spectrum and structure function in homogeneous steady turbulence of an incompressible fluid is studied using direct numerical simulation. The resolution of the simulation is up to $1024^3$ and the Taylor microscale Reynolds…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshiyuki Gotoh , Daigen Fukayama

Stylized turbulent swirls depicted in artworks are often analyzed with the modern tools for real turbulent flows such as the power spectrum and the structure function. Motivated by the recent study on \textit{The Starry Night} of van Gogh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-21 Takeshi Matsumoto

The presence of a linear friction drag affects significantly the dynamics of turbulent flows in two-dimensions. At small scales, it induces a correction to the slope of the energy spectrum in the range of wavenumbers corresponding to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 V. J. Valadão , G. Boffetta , F. De Lillo , S. Musacchio , M. Crialesi-Esposito

In this paper we numerically study the behavior of the density power spectrum in turbulent thermally bistable flows. We analyze a set of five three-dimensional simulations where turbulence is randomly driven in Fourier space at a fixed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Adriana Gazol , Jongsoo Kim

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

We present a new version of a dynamical spectral model for Large Eddy Simulation based on the Eddy Damped Quasi Normal Markovian approximation \cite{sao,chollet_lesieur}. Three distinct modifications are implemented and tested. On the one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julien Baerenzung , Helene Politano , Yannick Ponty , Annick Pouquet

We employ a coarse-graining approach to analyze nonlinear cascades in Boussinesq flows using high-resolution simulation data. We derive budgets which resolve the evolution of energy and potential enstrophy simultaneously in space and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hussein Aluie , Susan Kurien

In nonlinear systems, small perturbations are conventionally attributed to negligible nonlinearity, justifying linear approximations. Here, we uncover a notable exception to this paradigm in an electrokinetic (EK) flow. Using a novel dual…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 Jin'an Pang , Guangyin Jing , Xiaoqiang Feng , Kaige Wang , Wei Zhao