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During the past years the understanding of the multi-scale interaction problems have increased significantly. However, at present there exists a range of different analytical models for investigating multi-scale interactions and hardly any…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Anderson , Y. Kishimoto

The large-scale circulation of planetary atmospheres like that of the Earth is traditionally thought of in a dynamical framework. Here, we apply the statistical mechanics theory of turbulent flows to a simplified model of the global…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-17 Corentin Herbert , Bérengère Dubrulle , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Didier Paillard

Energy distributions of high frequency linear wave fields are often modelled in terms of flow or transport equations with ray dynamics given by a Hamiltonian vector field in phase space. Applications arise in underwater and room acoustics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 David Chappell , Gregor Tanner , Niels Sondergaard , Dominik Loechel

Modeling of wall-bounded turbulent flows is still an open problem in classical physics, with only modest progress made in the last few decades beyond the so-called `log law', which describes only the intermediate region in wall-bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-31 Fangying Song , George Em Karniadakis

Traditional turbulence models are derived for single-phase flow. Extension of the family of two-equation turbulence models for two-phase flow is obtained via scaling the transport equations by the density. In the special case of two-phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Omar Elsayed , Benjamin Bouscasse , Maité Gouin , David Le Touzé

We examine the visualization of quantum mechanics in phase space by means of the Wigner function and the Wigner function flow as a complementary approach to illustrating quantum mechanics in configuration space by wave functions. The Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Heiko Bauke , Noya Ruth Itzhak

The general method for treating non-Gaussian wave functionals in the Hamiltonian formulation of a quantum field theory, which was previously proposed and developed for Yang--Mills theory in Coulomb gauge, is generalized to full QCD. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Davide R. Campagnari , Hugo Reinhardt

We review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

A detailed study of the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model and its extensions is presented. These simple nonlinear partial differential equations suggested for both Rossby waves in the atmosphere and also drift waves in a magnetically-confined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

Generalized action invariants are identified for various models of drift wave turbulence in the presence of the mean shear flow. It is shown that the wave kinetic equation describing the interaction of the small scale turbulence and large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Smolyakov , P. H. Diamond

The formalism based on the equal-time Wigner function of the two-point correlation function for a quantized Klein--Gordon field is presented. The notion of the gauge-invariant Wigner transform is introduced and equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Best , P. Gornicki , W. Greiner

The consequences of discrete particle noise for a system possessing a possibly unstable collective mode are discussed. It is argued that a zonostrophic instability (of homogeneous turbulence to the formation of zonal flows) occurs just…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 D. A. St-Onge , J. A. Krommes

The phase space $S\times Z$ for a particle on a circle is considered. Displacement operators in this phase space are introduced and their properties are studied. Wigner and Weyl functions in this context are also considered and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Zhang , A. Vourdas

We perform numerical simulations of the dynamical equations for free water surface in finite basin in presence of gravity. Wave Turbulence (WT) is a theory derived for describing statistics of weakly nonlinear waves in the infinite basin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri V. Lvov , Sergey Nazarenko , Boris Pokorni

We demonstrate theoretically and numerically the zonal-flow/drift-wave feedback mechanism for the LH transition in an idealised model of plasma turbulence driven by a small scale instability. Zonal flows are generated by a secondary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-17 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

Fronts and near-inertial waves are energetic motions in the upper ocean that can interact and provide a route for kinetic energy (KE) dissipation of balanced oceanic flows. A quasilinear model is developed to study the KE exchanges between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Subhajit Kar , Roy Barkan

Motivated by the modeling of three-dimensional fluid turbulence, we define and study a class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) that are randomly stirred by a spatially smooth and uncorrelated in time forcing term. To…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Gabriel B. Apolinário , Laurent Chevillard , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

The quantum mechanics description of a physical object stretched in space and stable in time from the relativistic space-time properties point of view, introduced in special theory of relativity, is considered and analysed. The mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

We explore the manipulation in phase space of many-body wavefunctions that exhibit self-similar dynamics, under the application of sudden force and/or in the presence of a constant acceleration field. For this purpose, we work out a common…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-11 G. Condon , A. Fortun , J. Billy , D. Guéry-Odelin

Precanonical quantization is based on a generalization of the Hamiltonian formalism to field theory, the so-called De Donder-Weyl (DW) theory, which does not require a spacetime splitting and treats the space-time variables on an equal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-16 Igor V. Kanatchikov