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Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

Statistical model of strongly anisotropic fully developed turbulence of the weakly compressible fluid is considered by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. The corrections due to compressibility to the infrared form of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-11-22 N. V. Antonov , M. Hnatič , M. Yu. Nalimov

Density is the turbulence statistics that is most readily available from observations. Different regimes of turbulence correspond to different density spectra. For instance, the viscosity-damped regime of MHD turbulence relevant, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , A. Beresnyak

Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 P. Clark di Leoni , P. J. Cobelli , P. D. Mininni

Turbulent motions are essential to the mixing of entrained fluids and are also capable of amplifying weak initial magnetic fields by small-scale dynamo action. Here we perform a systematic study of turbulent mixing in magnetized media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Sharanya Sur , Liubin Pan , Evan Scannapieco

We analyze high resolution simulations of compressible, MHD turbulence with properties resembling conditions in galaxy clusters. The flow is driven to turbulence Mach number $\mathcal{M}_t \sim 1/2$ in an isothermal medium with an initially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 David H. Porter , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu

The physical nature of compressible turbulence is of fundamental importance in a variety of astrophysical settings. We present the first direct evidence that mean kinetic energy cascades conservatively beyond a transitional "conversion"…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hussein Aluie , Shengtai Li , Hui Li

The long-time evolution of decaying homogeneous turbulence is a fundamental building block of the subject. We investigate the problem by using a comprehensive suite of Direct Numerical Simulations. The simulations cover initial Taylor…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-16 Akash Rodhiya , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

The injection of turbulence in the circum-galactic medium at redshift z = 2 is investigated using the mesh-based hydrodynamic code Enzo and a subgrid-scale (SGS) model for unresolved turbulence. Radiative cooling and heating by a uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Luigi Iapichino , Matteo Viel , Stefano Borgani

We analyze the spectral properties of driven, supersonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence obtained via high-resolution numerical experiments, for application to understanding the dynamics of giant molecular clouds. Via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jason G. Vestuto , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

The properties of bubble-laden turbulent flows at different scales are investigated experimentally, focusing on the flow kinetic energy, energy transfer, and extreme events. The experiments employed particle shadow velocimetry measurements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tian Ma , Hendrik Hessenkemper , Dirk Lucas , Andrew D. Bragg

The supernova-driven interstellar medium in star-forming galaxies has Reynolds numbers of the order of $10^{6}$ or even larger. We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

We investigate by direct numerical simulations the fluid-solid interaction of non-dilute suspensions of spherical particles moving in triperiodic turbulence, at the relatively large Reynolds number of $Re_\lambda \approx 400$. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-05 Alessandro Chiarini , Marco Edoardo Rosti

Turbulence -- ubiquitous in nature and engineering alike [1-5] -- is traditionally viewed as an intrinsically inertial phenomenon, emerging only when the Reynolds number (Re), which quantifies the ratio of inertial to dissipative forces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ziyue Yu , Xinyu Si , Lei Fang

A three-dimensional direct numerical simulation (3D DNS) is performed to describe the turbulent flow in an enclosed rotor-stator cavity characterized by a large aspect ratio $G=(b-a)/h=18.32$ and a small radius ratio $a/b=0.15$ ($a$ and $b$…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sébastien Poncet , Anthony Randriamampianina

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

In three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence forced at large length scales, a constant energy flux $ \Pi_u $ flows from large scales to intermediate scales, and then to small scales. It is well known that for multiscale energy injection and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mahendra K. Verma

We investigate the statistics of turbulence in emulsions of two-immiscible fluids of same density. We compute for the first time velocity increments between points conditioned to be located in the same phase or in different phases and…

In this paper, we show that in the presence of large-scale circulation (LSC), Taylor's hypothesis can be invoked to deduce the energy spectrum in thermal convection using real space probes, a popular experimental tool. We perform numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

Wall turbulence consists of various sizes of vortical structures that induce flow circulation around a wide range of closed Eulerian loops. Here we investigate the multiscale properties of circulation around such loops in statistically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-11 Peng-Yu Duan , Xi Chen , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan