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Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in the turbulent regime is studied using statistical methods. Exact evolution equations for the probability density function of temperature and velocity are derived from first principles within the framework of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-04 J. Lülff , M. Wilczek , R. Friedrich

Elastic turbulence is a spatially and temporally disordered flow state appearing in viscoelastic fluids at vanishing fluid inertia and large elasticity. The resulting flows have broad technological interest, particularly to enhance mixing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zhongxuan Hou , Stefano Berti , Teodor Burghelea , Francesco Romanò

We consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations including their local energy inequality as a differential inclusion. Providing a corresponding convex integration theorem and constructing subsolutions, we show the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán

The decay of Taylor-Couette turbulence, i.e~the flow between two coaxial and independently rotating cylinders, is numerically studied by instantaneously stopping the forcing from an initially statistically stationary flow field at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-08 Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico , Xiaojue Zhu , Vamsi Spandan , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

The importance of nonlocality is assessed in modeling mean scalar transport for turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing at different Atwood numbers. Building on the two-dimensional incompressible work of Lavacot et al. (2024, JFM), the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Dana Lynn Ona-Lansigan Lavacot , Ali Mani , Brandon E. Morgan

Rayleigh-Taylor interfacial mixing has critical importance in a broad range of processes in nature and technology. In most instances Rayleigh-Taylor dynamics is induced by variable acceleration, whereas the bulk of existing studies is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-13 Arun Pandian , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

The onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied a compressible Brownian Yukawa fluid mixture on the ``molecular'' length and time scales of the individual particles. As a model, a two-dimensional phase-separated symmetric binary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wysocki , H. Löwen

We present an analytical model for the time-developing turbulent boundary layer (TD-TBL) over a flat plate. The model provides explicit formulae for the temporal behavior of the wall-shear stress and both the temporal and spatial…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Victor S. L'vov , Anna Pomyalov , Antonino Ferrante , Said Elghobashi

In this research, the height, curvature and velocity of the bubble tip in Rayleigh-Taylor instability at arbitrary Atwood number with horizontal magnetic field are investigated. To support the earlier simulation and experimental results,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rahul Banerjee

We report on two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in immiscible fluids. A diffuse-interface model that combines the Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the volume fraction of one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Raphael Zanella , György Tegze , Romain LeTellier , Hervé Henry

Three very different algorithms have been proposed for solution of the Rayleigh-Taylor turbulent mixing problem. They are based upon three different physical principles governing the Euler equations for fluid flow, which serve to complete…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-23 James Glimm , Baolian Cheng , David H. Sharp , Tulin Kaman

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing has critical importance for a broad range of process in nature and technology, from supernovae and plasma fusion to oil recovery and nano-fabrication. In most instances, RT flows are driven by variable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Snezhana I. Abarzhi

We investigate long time numerical simulations of the inviscid Rayleigh-Taylor instability at Atwood number one using a boundary integral method. We are able to attain the asymptotic behavior for the spikes predicted by Clavin &…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Laurent Duchemin , Christophe Josserand , Paul Clavin

We present a mixing length-based algebraic turbulence model calibrated to pipe flow; the main purpose of the model is to capture the increasing turbulence production-to-dissipation ratio observed in connection with the high Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Nils T. Basse

We present results from numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence, performed using a recently proposed lattice Boltzmann method able to describe consistently a thermal compressible flow subject to an external forcing. The method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Scagliarini , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia , K. Sugiyama , F. Toschi

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We compute fully local boundary layer scales in three-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection. These scales are directly connected to the highly intermittent fluctuations of the fluxes of momentum and heat at the isothermal top and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-04 Janet D. Scheel , Joerg Schumacher

This work focuses on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI)driven by acceleration with power-law time-dependence. We review the existing theoretical approaches, apply the group theory approach to solve this long-standing problem, and yield the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Snezhana Abarzhi , Kurt Williams

The transition to turbulence in Rayleigh-Benard convection with phase changes and the resulting convective patterns are studied in a three-dimensional Galerkin model. Our study is focused to the conditionally unstable regime of moist…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-10 Thomas Weidauer , Olivier Pauluis , Joerg Schumacher

The present work is devoted to the evolution of random solutions of the unforced Burgers and KPZ equations in d-dimensions in the limit of vanishing viscosity. We consider a cellular model and as initial condition assign a value for the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Gurbatov