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Turbulent flows are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments, and understanding density structures and their statistics in turbulent media is of great importance in astrophysics. In this paper, we study the density power spectra,…

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The buoyancy-induced parallel flow in a vertical cylindrical porous layer is analysed. A radial thermal gradient caused by a uniformly distributed heat source is assumed to induce the buoyant flow. The layer boundaries are modelled as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. Barletta , D. A. S. Rees , B. Pulvirenti

A novel D-model of wave turbulence is presented which allows to reproduce in a single frame various nonlinear wave phenomena such as intermittency, formation and direction of energy cascades, possible growth of nonlinearity due to direct…

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Recent experiments demonstrate the importance of substrate curvature for actively forced fluid dynamics. Yet, the covariant formulation and analysis of continuum models for non-equilibrium flows on curved surfaces still poses theoretical…

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Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Michikazu Kobayashi , Makoto Tsubota

We present new results from high-resolution high-statistics direct numerical simulations of a tri-dimensional convective cell. We test the fundamental physical picture of the presence of both a Bolgiano-like and a Kolmogorov-like regime. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Enrico Calzavarini , Federico Toschi , Raffaele Tripiccione

The Kolmogorov scaling law of turbulences has been considered the most important theoretical breakthrough in the last century. It is an essential approach to analyze turbulence data present in meteorological, physical, chemical, biological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Chen , H. B. Zhou

In this paper we introduce a new PDE model in frequency space for the inertial energy cascade that reproduces the classical scaling laws of Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence. Our point of view is based upon studying the energy flux through…

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A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field $\boldsymbol{B_0} = B_0 \hat{\boldsymbol{e}}_\|$. This regime is relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier

We consider the dynamics of a vertically stratified, horizontally-forced Kolmogorov flow. Motivated by astrophysical systems where the Prandtl number is often asymptotically small, our focus is the little-studied limit of high Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-27 L. Cope , P. Garaud , C. P. Caulfield

The scaling of turbulent heat flux with respect to electrostatic potential is examined in the framework of a reduced ($4$D) kinetic system describing electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas excited by the ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasil Bratanov , Swadesh Mahajan , David Hatch

We investigate the fixed points of a shell model for the turbulent advection of passive scalars introduced Jensen, Paladin and Vulpiani. The passive scalar field is driven by the velocity field of the popular GOY shell model. The scaling…

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Both observations and numerical simulations show that stellar convective motions are composed of semi-regular flows of convective rolling cells and the fully developed turbulence. Although the convective rolling cells are crucial for the…

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A phenomenological model describing the time-frequency dependence of the power spectrum of thin plates vibrating in a wave turbulence regime, is introduced. The model equation contains as basic solutions the Rayleigh-Jeans equipartition of…

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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…

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We present results of large-scale three-dimensional simulations of weakly magnetized supersonic turbulence at grid resolutions up to 1024^3 cells. Our numerical experiments are carried out with the Piecewise Parabolic Method on a Local…

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The present study examines the linear instability characteristics of double-diffusive mixed convective flow in a vertical channel with viscosity stratification. The viscosity of the fluid is modelled as an exponential function of…

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We derive equations for the mean entropy and the mean internal energy in the low-Mach-number temperature stratified turbulence (i.e., for turbulent convection or stably stratified turbulence), and show that turbulent flux of entropy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-16 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin

We study the long-time evolution of waves of a thin elastic plate in the limit of small deformation so that modes of oscillations interact weakly. According to the theory of weak turbulence a nonlinear wave system evolves in long-time…

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