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We study the energy transfer properties of three dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence where the non-linear transfer is altered in a way that helicity is made sign-definite, say positive. In this framework, known as homochiral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-01 Antoine Briard , Luca Biferale , Thomas Gomez

We consider transition to strong turbulence in an infinite fluid stirred by a gaussian random force. The transition is {\bf defined} as a first appearance of anomalous scaling of normalized moments of velocity derivatives (dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Victor Yakhot , Diego Donzis

A short, abrupt increase in energy injection rate into steady strongly-driven rotating turbulent flow is used as a probe for energy transfer in the system. The injected excessive energy is localized in time and space and its spectra differ…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Omri Shaltiel , Alon Salhov , Omri Gat , Eran Sharon

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

The dynamics of small-scale structures in free-surface turbulence is crucial to large-scale phenomena in natural and industrial environments. Here we conduct experiments on the quasi-flat free surface of a zero-mean-flow turbulent water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yinghe Qi , Yaxing Li , Filippo Coletti

We study the global, i.e. radially averaged, high Reynolds number (asymptotic) scaling of streamwise turbulence intensity squared defined as ${I^2=\overline{u^2}/U^2}$, where $u$ and $U$ are the fluctuating and mean velocities, respectively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-29 Nils T. Basse

In-cylinder flow structures and turbulence characteristics are investigated using direct numerical simulations (DNS) in a laboratory-scale engine at technically relevant engine speeds (1500 and 2500 rpm at full load). The data is computed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-05 Bogdan A. Danciu , George K. Giannakopoulos , Mathis Bode , Christos E. Frouzakis

This manuscript has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids, see https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/accepted/d5074S28J6b11905012b7cb06505e8f2149dd5f20. This work investigates the mechanisms that underlie transitions to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-24 Christopher J. Camobreco , Alban Pothérat , Gregory J. Sheard

Three-dimensional (3D) turbulence is characterized by a dual forward cascade of both kinetic energy and helicity, a second inviscid flow invariant, from the integral scale of motion to the viscous dissipative scale. In helical flows,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-31 Nicholas M. Rathmann , Peter D. Ditlevsen

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

The Reynolds number provides a characterization of the transition to turbulent flow, with wide application in classical fluid dynamics. Identifying such a parameter in superfluid systems is challenging due to their fundamentally inviscid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-22 M. T. Reeves , T. P. Billam , B. P. Anderson , A. S. Bradley

We present results from a systematic numerical study of structural properties of an unforced, incompressible, homogeneous, and isotropic three-dimensional turbulent fluid with an initial energy spectrum that develops a cascade of kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chirag Kalelkar

We report evidence for an enstrophy cascade in large-scale point-vortex simulations of decaying two-dimensional quantum turbulence. Devising a method to generate quantum vortex configurations with kinetic energy narrowly localized near a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-08 M. T. Reeves , T. P. Billam , X. Yu , A. S. Bradley

Meso-scale turbulence is an innate phenomenon, distinct from inertial turbulence, that spontaneously occurs at zero-Reynolds number in fluidized biological systems. This spatio-temporal disordered flow radically changes nutrient and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-24 Amin Doostmohammadi , Tyler N. Shendruk , Kristian Thijssen , Julia M. Yeomans

The concept of inverse statistics in turbulence has attracted much attention in the recent years. It is argued that the scaling exponents of the direct structure functions and the inverse structure functions satisfy an inversion formula.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Liang Xu , Wei-Xing Zhou , Hai-Feng Liu , Xin Gong , Fu-Cheng Wang , Zun-Hong Yu

Suspensions of swimming bacteria interact hydrodynamically over long ranges, organizing themselves into collective states that drive large-scale chaotic flows, often referred to as "bacterial turbulence". Despite extensive experimental and…

We present a numerical study of two-dimensional turbulent flows in the enstrophy cascade regime, with different large-scale forcings and energy sinks. In particular, we study the statistics of more-than-differentiable velocity fluctuations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Biferale , M. Cencini , A. Lanotte , D. Vergni

Turbulence is most commonly associated with high Reynolds number flow, however the framework of turbulent dynamics has been conceptually extended to many other fields, such as magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, elastic wave turbulence in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-05 Wilhelm Sunde Lie , Ingve Simonsen , Paul Gunnar Dommersnes

The log-normal type of turbulence energy spectral function, derived from the maximum entropy principle, is shown to be parameterizable in terms of root turbulence variables including the Reynolds number. The spectral function is first…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-24 T. -W. Lee

This paper numerically investigates the instability characteristics of decelerating flows. The flow dynamics and temporal evolution of coherent structures in a diverging section with mild spatial pressure gradient are analyzed using…

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