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We study the Lagrangian dynamics of passive tracers in a simple model of a driven two-dimensional vortex resembling real-world geophysical flow patterns. Using a discrete approximation of the system's transfer operator, we construct a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Michael Lindner , Reik V. Donner

A set of exact integrals of motion is found for systems driven by homogenous isotropic stochastic flow. The integrals of motion describe the evolution of (hyper-)surfaces of different dimensions transported by the flow, and can be expressed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-29 V. A. Sirota , A. S. Il'yn , A. V. Kopyev , K. P. Zybin

We formulate a perturbative approximation to gravitational instability, based on Lagrangian hydrodynamics in Newtonian cosmology. We take account of `pressure' effect of fluid, which is kinematically caused by velocity dispersion, to aim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Morita , Takayuki Tatekawa

As most mathematically justifiable Lagrangian coherent structure detection methods rely on spatial derivatives, their applicability to sparse trajectory data has been limited. For experimental fluid dynamicists and natural scientists…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikolas O. Aksamit , Alex P. Encinas-Bartos , George Haller , David E. Rival

We analyze data from direct numerical simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence (at Re_\lambda \approx 280) and study the statistics of curvature and torsion of Lagrangian trajectories in order to extract informations on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-11 Andrea Scagliarini

We present results from a numerical study of particle dispersion in the weakly nonlinear regime of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a fluid with Prandtl number around unity, where bi-stability between ideal straight convection rolls and weak…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-29 Simon Schütz , Eberhard Bodenschatz

We adapt recent ideas for many-body chaos in nonlinear, Hamiltonian fluids [Murugan \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 124501 (2021)] to revisit the question of the Reynolds number Re dependence of the Lyapunov exponent…

Strongly nonlinear flows, which commonly arise in geophysical and engineering turbulence, are characterized by persistent and intermittent energy transfer between various spatial and temporal scales. These systems are difficult to model and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Hassan Arbabi , Themistoklis Sapsis

Accurate prediction of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulent flow remains challenging due to limited temporal information in transport functions. This paper shows that surrounding coherent motions sharing the same dynamics carry enough…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Ali R Khojasteh , Dominique Heitz

It is well known that the fluid-particle acceleration is intimately related to the dissipation rate of turbulence, in line with the Kolmogorov assumptions. On the other hand, various experimental and numerical works have reported as well…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-22 Rémi Zamansky

This study investigates the Lagrangian properties of ion turbulent transport driven by drift-type turbulence in tokamak plasmas. Despite the compressible and inhomogeneous nature of Eulerian gyrocenter drifts, numerical simulations with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 D. I. Palade

The equation for the fluid velocity gradient along a Lagrangian trajectory immediately follows from the Navier-Stokes equation. However, such an equation involves two terms that cannot be determined from the velocity gradient along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xiaolong Zhang , Maurizio Carbone , Andrew D. Bragg

We introduce a minimal model of energy transfer through scales to describe, at a qualitative level, the subcritical transition between laminar and turbulent flows, viewed in a statistical physics framework as a discontinuous absorbing phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Eric Bertin , Alex Andrix , Gaël Le Godais

Chaotic systems are characterised by exponential separation between close-by trajectories, which in particular leads to deterministic unpredictability over an infinite time-window. It is now believed, that such butterfly effect is not fully…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-12 Antoine Barlet , Adam Cheminet , Bérengère Dubrulle , Alexei A. Mailybaev

Modelling the turbulent diffusion of thermal energy, momentum, and metals is required in all galaxy evolution simulations due to the ubiquity of turbulence in galactic environments. The most commonly employed diffusion model, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Douglas Rennehan , Arif Babul , Philip F. Hopkins , Romeel Davé , Belaid Moa

Turbulent dynamical systems characterized by both a high-dimensional phase space and a large number of instabilities are ubiquitous among many complex systems in science and engineering. The existence of a strange attractor in the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Andrew J. Majda , Di Qi

Motivated by systems in which droplets grow and shrink in a turbulence-driven supersaturation field, we investigate the problem of turbulent condensation in a general manner. Using direct numerical simulations we show that the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-06 Christoph Siewert , Jeremie Bec , Giorgio Krstulovic

This study investigates the causal timeline of vortex stretching in high-Reynolds-number turbulence ($Re_\lambda \approx 433$) using Lagrangian tracking in $1024^3$ direct numerical simulations. While classical theories often assume an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Khalid Saqr

We show that the Lagrangian flow associated with the stochastic 3D primitive equations (PEs) with non-degenerate noise is chaotic, i.e., the corresponding top Lyapunov exponent is strictly positive almost surely. This result builds on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Antonio Agresti

We introduce transfer learning for nonlinear dynamics, which enables efficient predictions of chaotic dynamics by utilizing a small amount of data. For the Lorenz chaos, by optimizing the transfer rate, we accomplish more accurate inference…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-07 Masanobu Inubushi , Susumu Goto