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Periodic travelling waves at the free surface of an incompressible inviscid fluid in two dimensions under gravity are numerically computed for an arbitrary vorticity distribution. The fluid domain over one period is conformally mapped from…
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Despite the nonlinear nature of wall turbulence, there is evidence that the mechanism underlying the energy transfer from the mean flow to the turbulent fluctuations can be ascribed to linear processes. One of the most acclaimed linear…
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We propose a novel approach to induce anomalous dissipation through advection driven by turbulent fluid flows. Specifically, we establish the existence of a velocity field $v$ satisfying randomly forced Navier-Stokes equations, leading to…
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We advance the computation of physical modal expansions for unsteady incompressible flows. Point of departure is a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations around its fixed point in a frequency domain formulation. While the most…
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We consider the regime of fully developed isotropic and homogeneous turbulence of the Navier-Stokes equation with a stochastic forcing. We present two gauge symmetries of the corresponding Navier-Stokes field theory, and derive the…
The appearance of vortex filaments, the power-law dependence of velocity and vorticity correlators and their multiscaling behavior are derived from the Navier-Stokes equation. This is possible due to interpretation of the Navier-Stokes…
We investigate the Navier-Stokes turbulence driven by a stochastic random Gaussian force. Using a field-theoretic approach, we uncover an anomaly that brings hidden structure to the theory. The anomaly is generated by a non-self-adjoint…
To develop an understanding of recent experiments on the turbulence-induced melting of a periodic array of vortices in a thin fluid film, we perform a direct numerical simulation of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations forced such…
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Recent studies suggest that unstable, non-chaotic solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation may provide deep insights into fluid turbulence. In this article, we present a combined experimental and numerical study exploring the dynamical role…