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Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Amrik Sen , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg , Annick pouquet

Turbulent flows in three dimensions are characterized by the transport of energy from large to small scales through the energy cascade. Since the small scales are the result of the nonlinear dynamics across the scales, they are often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Lukas Bentkamp , Michael Wilczek

The separating and reattaching turbulent flow past a rectangular cylinder is studied to describe how small and large scales contribute to the sustaining mechanism of the velocity fluctuations. The work is based on the Anisotropic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-24 Alessandro Chiarini , Davide Gatti , Andrea Cimarelli , Maurizio Quadrio

A turbulent flow is maintained by an external supply of kinetic energy, which is eventually dissipated into heat at steep velocity gradients. The scale at which energy is supplied greatly differs from the scale at which energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-30 Haitao Xu , Alain Pumir , Eberhard Bodenschatz

Turbulence is an intriguing non-equilibrium state, which originates from fluid mechanics and has far-reaching consequences in the description of climate physics, the characterization of quantum hydrodynamics, and the understanding of cosmic…

Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection at high Rayleigh number exhibits turbulence superimposed on large-scale circulation. While buoyancy forces drive the flow at certain scales, how kinetic energy is transfers across the scales is not understood.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-06 Robin Barta , Claus Wagner , Ron Shnapp

Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues. Despite occurring in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Ricard Alert , Jaume Casademunt , Jean-François Joanny

Properties of the turbulent cascade of kinetic energy are studied using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional hydrodynamic decaying turbulence with a moderate Reynolds number and the initial Mach number $M=1$. Compressible and…

Kinetic plasma turbulence cascade spans multiple scales ranging from macroscopic fluid flow to sub-electron scales. Mechanisms that dissipate large scale energy, terminate the inertial range cascade and convert kinetic energy into heat are…

We first summarize briefly several properties concerning the dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) turbulence, with an emphasis on the inverse cascade of energy to the largest accessible scale of the system. In order to study a similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-05 A. Pouquet , A. Sen , D. Rosenberg , P. D. Mininni , J. Baerenzung

A decomposition of the energy and helicity fluxes in a turbulent hydrodynamic flow is proposed. The decomposition is based on the projection of the flow to a helical basis that allows to investigate separately the role of interactions among…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandros Alexakis

Fundamental quantities of turbulent flows, such as the dissipation constant $C_\varepsilon$ and the intermittency factor $\mu$, are examined in relation to each other for a broader class of non-ideal turbulent flows. In the context of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 F. Schmitt , A. Fuchs , J. Peinke , M. Obligado

By analyzing hot-wire velocity data taken in an open channel flow, an unambiguous definition of surface-layer thickness is here provided in terms of the cross-over scale between backward and forward energy fluxes. It is shown that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-18 Guido Troiani , Francesco Cioffi , Angelo Olivieri , Carlo Massimo Casciola

We investigate the nature of information flow in turbulence from an information-thermodynamic viewpoint. For the fully developed three-dimensional fluid turbulence described by the fluctuating Navier-Stokes equation, we prove that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tomohiro Tanogami , Ryo Araki

We introduce a model for the turbulent energy cascade aimed at studying the effect of dynamical scaling on intermittency. In particular, we show that by slowing down the energy transfer mechanism for fixed energy flux, intermittency…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia

Interscale energy transfers at the vicinity of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface are from small to large scales in directions close to the interface's tangent plane where motions are predominantly stretching, but from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Zhou , J. C. Vassilicos

We derive exact scaling relations for two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic turbulence in the inertial range of scales. We consider both the energy cascade towards large scales and the enstrophy cascade towards small scales. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Luis Lehner , Yaron Oz

The dimensional transition in turbulent jets of a shear-thinning fluid is studied via direct numerical simulations. Our findings reveal that under vertical confinement, the flow exhibits a unique mixed-dimensional (or 2.5D) state, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-20 Christian Amor , Giovanni Soligo , Andrea Mazzino , Marco Edoardo Rosti

The energy cascade and diverse turbulence properties of active-grid-generated turbulence were studied in a wind tunnel via hot-wire anemometry. To this aim, two active grid protocols were considered. The first protocol is the standard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-09 D. O. Mora , E. Muñiz Pladellorens , P. Riera Turró , M. Lagauzere , M. Obligado

The concept of inverse energy cascades has played a central role in the development of turbulence theory, with applications in two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional flows. We examine the presence or absence of inverse energy cascades in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alexandros Alexakis , Raffaele Marino , Pablo D. Mininni