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Inspired by spatiotemporal observations from satellites of the trajectories of objects drifting near the surface of the ocean in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's `Global Drifter Program', this paper develops data-driven…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-19 François Gay-Balmaz , Darryl D. Holm

We use SDSS imaging data in $ugriz$ passbands to study the shape of the point spread function (PSF) profile and the variation of its width with wavelength and time. We find that the PSF profile is well described by theoretical predictions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Bo Xin , Željko Ivezić , Robert H. Lupton , John R. Peterson , Peter Yoachim , R. Lynne Jones , Charles F. Claver , George Angeli

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been demonstrated as a promising numerical solver for multiphase flow problems due to its Lagrangian nature, its application to complex channel flow may encounter additional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Zi-Yang Zhan , Zhen Chen

Estimation of the initial state of turbulent channel flow from limited data is investigated using an adjoint-variational approach. The data are generated from a reference direct numerical simulation (DNS) which is sub-sampled at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Mengze Wang , Tamer A. Zaki

Coherent structures (CS) are known to be part of the foundations of turbulent flow dynamics. For a long time, their appearance was believed to be chaotic and unorganized. However, it has been demonstrated through numerical simulations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-13 B. Magacho

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks plays an important role in dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate hydrodynamic mechanisms that can generate turbulence in the outer disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi , Tomohiro Ono

We consider turbulence in a stratified 'Kolmogorov' flow, driven by horizontal shear in the form of sinusoidal body forcing in the presence of an imposed background linear stable stratification in the third direction. This flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Dan Lucas , C. P. Caulfield , Rich R. Kerswell

In this study we investigated the capabilities of the mesh-free, Lagrangian particle method (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, SPH) to simulate the detailed hydrodynamic processes generated by both spilling and plunging breaking waves within…

We introduce the velocity (Vs) of stagnation points as a means to characterise and measure statistical persistence of streamlines. Using theoretical arguments, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and Kinematic Simulations (KS) of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Goto , D. R. Osborne , J. C. Vassilicos , J. D. Haigh

In this work we will identify a novel relation between Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and explicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using a coarse-graining method from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics (NEMD). While the current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Max Okraschevski , Niklas Bürkle , Rainer Koch , Hans-Jörg Bauer

In chaotic deterministic systems, seemingly stochastic behavior is generated by relatively simple, though hidden, organizing rules and structures. Prominent among the tools used to characterize this complexity in 1D and 2D systems are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-07 Spencer A. Smith , Joshua Arenson , Eric Roberts , Suzanne Sindi , Kevin A. Mitchell

We develop numerical methods for reaction-diffusion systems based on the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD). While the FHD formulation is formally described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), it becomes similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

Origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flows is investigated. The particular emphasis is the flows whose angular velocity decreases but specific angular momentum increases with increasing radial coordinate. Such flows are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-19 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Amit K. Chattopadhyay

Flow over a surface can be stratified by imposing a fixed mean vertical temperature (density) gradient profile throughout or via cooling at the surface. These distinct mechanisms can act simultaneously to establish a stable stratification…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Cheng-Nian Xiao , Inanc Senocak

We investigate the statistical properties, based on numerical simulations and analytical calculations, of a recently proposed stochastic model for the velocity field of an incompressible, homogeneous, isotropic and fully developed turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-28 Rodrigo M. Pereira , Christophe Garban , Laurent Chevillard

Recent studies based on simulations of the Boussinesq equations indicate that stratified turbulent flows can develop large-scale intermittency in the velocity and temperature fields, as detected in the atmosphere and oceans. In particular,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-16 Raffaello Foldes , Raffaele Marino , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Enrico Camporeale

We develop, simulate and extend an initial proposition by Chaves et al. concerning a random incompressible vector field able to reproduce key ingredients of three-dimensional turbulence in both space and time. In this article, we focus on…

A complete and detailed knowledge of the structure of the gaseous component in protoplanetary discs is essential to the study of dust evolution during the early phases of pre-planetesimal formation. The aim of this paper is to determine if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Serena Arena , Jean-François Gonzalez

Predicting particle-laden flows requires accurate fluid force models. However, a reliable particle force model for finite-size particles in turbulent flows remains lacking. In the present work, a fluid force model for a finite-size…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Yuqi Wang , Ruifeng Hu