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Transition to turbulence is due to the instability of a laminar flow subject to a disturbance. This complicated problem can be explained using a new proposed energy gradient theory in our previous study. This theory is extended to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

The resolvent formulation of the Navier$\text{--}$Stokes equations gives a means for the characterization and prediction of features of turbulent flows$\text{---}$such as statistics, structures and their nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-28 Scott T. M. Dawson , Beverley J. McKeon

The issue of why computational resolution in Navier-Stokes turbulence is so hard to achieve is addressed. It is shown that Navier-Stokes solutions can potentially behave differently in two distinct regions of space-time $\mathbb{R}^{\pm}$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. D. Gibbon

We investigate the instability of a tubular fluid membranes made of a water soluble surfactant. The tubules are obtained at high salinities. The instability is due to the introduction within the vesicle multilayer of an alkane. We measure…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Sahraoui Chaieb , Sergio Rica

Origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow, e.g. plane Couette flow including the Coriolis force, is a big puzzle. While the flow often exhibits turbulence in laboratory experiments, according to the linear perturbation theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A rational theory is proposed to describe the large-scale motion in turbulence. The fluid element with inner orientational structures is proposed to be the building block of fluid dynamics. The variance of the orientational structures then…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-31 Wennan Zou

We prove the existence and uniqueness of maximal solutions to the 3D SALT (Stochastic Advection by Lie Transport, [Holm arXiv:1410.8311]) Navier-Stokes Equation in velocity and vorticity form, on the torus and the bounded domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Daniel Goodair , Dan Crisan

We investigate statistical properties of vorticity fluctuations in fully developed turbulence, which are known to exhibit a strong intermittent behavior. Taking as the starting point the Navier-Stokes equations with a random force term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi

The emergence of hydrodynamic bend instabilities in ordered suspensions of active particles is widely observed across diverse living and synthetic systems, and is considered to be governed by dipolar active stresses generated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-09 Sameer Kumar , Niels de Graaf Sousa , Amin Doostmohammadi

Mathematical estimates for the Navier-Stokes equations are traditionally expressed in terms of the Grashof number, which is a dimensionless measure of the magnitude of the forcing and hence a control parameter of the system. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Ritwik Mukherjee , John D. Gibbon , Dario Vincenzi

Mechanical effects that span multiple physical scales -- such as the influence of vanishing molecular viscosity on large-scale flow structures under specific conditions -- play a critical role in real fluid systems. The spin angular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-14 Satori Tsuzuki

The origin of hydrodynamical instability and turbulence in the Keplerian accretion disk is a long-standing puzzle. The flow therein is linearly stable. Here we explore the evolution of perturbation in this flow in the presence of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Active turbulence, or chaotic self-organized collective motion, is often observed in concentrated suspensions of motile bacteria and other systems of self-propelled interacting agents. To date, there is no fundamental understanding of how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-09 Daiki Nishiguchi , Sora Shiratani , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi , Igor S. Aranson

Wet active matter in the presence of an imposed temperature gradient, or chemical potential gradient, is considered. It is shown that there is a new type of convective instability that is caused by a (negative) activity parameter.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-15 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. K. Bhattacherjee

In this work, we study the causality of near-wall inner and outer turbulent motions. The inner motions are defined as the self-sustained near-wall cycle, and the outer motions as those living in the logarithmic layer exhibiting footprints…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jingxuan Zhang , Zhengping Zhu , Limin Wang , Ruifeng Hu

Large-scale instabilities occurring in the presence of small-scale turbulent fluctuations are frequently observed in geophysical or astrophysical contexts but are difficult to reproduce in the laboratory. Using extensive numerical…

We observe a symmetry-breaking transition from a turbulent to a self-organized state in direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equation at very low Reynolds number. In this self-organized state the kinetic energy is contained only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-10 W. D. McComb , M. F. Linkmann , A. Berera , S. R. Yoffe , B. Jankauskas

We propose a theoretical framework where the dissipative structures of turbulence emerge from microscopic path uncertainty. By modeling fluid parcels as stochastic tracers governed by the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) variational principle, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Marcial Sanchis-Agudo , Ricardo Vinuesa

We consider freely decaying two-dimensional isotropic turbulence. It is usually assumed that, in such turbulence, the energy spectrum at small wave number, takes the form, where is the two-dimensional version of Loitsyansky's integral. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-16 Zheng Ran

This paper presents an innovative framework for analyzing the regularity of solutions to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations by integrating Sobolev-Besov hybrid spaces with fractional operators and quantum-inspired dynamics. We propose…