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Inviscid invariants of flow equations are crucial in determining the direction of the turbulent energy cascade. In this work we investigate a variant of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations that shares exactly the same ideal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-25 Ganapati Sahoo , Alexandros Alexakis , Luca Biferale

The intermittent small-scale structure of turbulence governs energy dissipation in many astrophysical plasmas and is often believed to have universal properties for sufficiently large systems. In this work, we argue that small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Vladimir Zhdankin , Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Geoffroy Lesur

Results of direct numerical simulation of isotropic turbulence of surface gravity waves in the framework of Hamiltonian equations are presented. For the first time simultaneous formation of both direct and inverse cascades was observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-04 Alexander O. Korotkevich

We report experimental measurements of the translational and rotational dynamics of a large buoyant sphere in isotropic turbulence. We introduce an efficient method to simultaneously determine the position and (absolute) orientation of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-20 Varghese Mathai , Matthijs W. M. Neut , Erwin P. van der Poel , Chao Sun

We find strong evidence for intermittency in forced two dimensional (2D) turbulence in a flowing soap film experiment. In the forward enstrophy cascade the structure function scaling exponents are nearly indistinguishable from 3D studies.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Brent Daniel , Maarten A. Rutgers

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

Injection and decay of particles in an inhomogeneous quantum condensate can significantly change its behaviour. We model trapped, pumped, decaying condensates by a complex Gross-Pitaevskii equation and analyse the density and currents in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-23 Jonathan Keeling , Natalia G. Berloff

Expanding our previous work on turbulent whirls [1] we have uncovered a similarity within the similarity shared by intense vortices. Using the new information we compress the tangential velocity profiles of a diverse set of vortices into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-08 Georgios H. Vatistas

We investigate experimentally phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of micron-size solid particles in an inhomogeneous convective turbulence forced by one vertically-oriented oscillating grid in an air flow. This effect causes formation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-19 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

We revisit the problem of how energy transfer through the turbulent cascade operates in compressible hydrodynamic turbulence. In general, there is no conservative compressible cascade since the kinetic and internal energy reservoirs can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-09 Wolfram Schmidt , Philipp Grete

We study the cascading of fast MHD modes in magnetically dominated plasma by performing one-dimensional (1D) dynamical simulations. We find that the cascading becomes more efficient as an angle between wave vector and underlying magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. K. Suzuki , A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak

The effect of rotation is considered to become important when the Rossby number is sufficiently small, as is the case in many geophysical and astrophysical flows. Here we present direct numerical simulations to study the effect of rotation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

The properties of the turbulence which develops in the outflows of magnetic reconnection have been investigated using self-consistent plasma simulations, in three dimensions. As commonly observed in space plasmas, magnetic reconnection is…

We report numerical investigations of wave turbulence in a vibrating plate. The possibility to implement advanced measurement techniques and long time numerical simulations makes this system extremely valuable for wave turbulence studies.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-25 Nicolas Mordant , Benjamin Miquel

We develop the formulation of turbulence in terms of the functional integral over the phase space configurations of the vortex cells. The phase space consists of Clebsch coordinates at the surface of the vortex cells plus the Lagrange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 A. A. Migdal

Prediction is a fundamental objective of science. It is more difficult for chaotic and complex systems like turbulence. Here we use information theory to quantify spatial prediction using experimental data from a turbulent soap film. At…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-05 Rory Cerbus , Walter Goldburg

Using group theory arguments and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the possibility of changing the vorticity or topological charge of an individual vortex by means of the action of a system possessing a discrete rotational symmetry of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Ferrando , Mario Zacares , Miguel-Angel Garcia-March , Juan A. Monsoriu

Large-scale structure formation can be modeled as a nonlinear process that transfers energy from the largest scales to successively smaller scales until it is dissipated, in analogy with Kolmogorov's cascade model of incompressible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jose Gaite

The effects of three-dimensional perturbations in two-dimensional turbulence are investigated, through a conformal field theory approach. We compute scaling exponents for the energy spectra of enstrophy and energy cascades, in a strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Moriconi

We present a new scale decomposition method to investigate turbulence in wavenumber-frequency space. Using 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations, we show that magnetic fluctuations with time scales longer than the nonlinear time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Giuseppe Arrò , Hui Li , William H. Matthaeus