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Numerical simulations of the 3D MHD-equations that describe rotating magnetoconvection in a Cartesian box have been performed using the code NIRVANA. The characteristics of averaged quantities like the turbulence intensity and the turbulent…

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The Sun's magnetic dynamo cycle features a distinct pattern: a propagating region of sunspot emergence appears around 30 degrees latitude and vanishes near the equator every 11 years. Moreover, longitudinal flows called "torsional…

Wind turbines operate in the atmospheric boundary layer, where they are exposed to the turbulent atmospheric flows. As the response time of wind turbine is typically in the range of seconds, they are affected by the small scale intermittent…

We investigate the local self-sustained process underlying spiral turbulence in counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow using a periodic annular domain, shaped as a parallelogram, two of whose sides are aligned with the cylindrical helix…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 B. Wang , R. Ayats , K. Deguchi , F. Mellibovsky , A. Meseguer

An improved understanding of how vortices develop and propagate under pulsatile flow can shed important light on the mixing and transport processes including the transition to turbulent regime occurring in such systems. For example, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-13 Nicasio Barrere , Javier Brum , Alexandre L'Her , Gustavo L. Sarasúa , Cecilia Cabeza

Using time-distance local helioseismology flow maps within 1 Mm of the solar photosphere, we detect inflows toward activity belts that contribute to solar cycle scale variations in near-surface meridional flow. These inflows stretch out as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sushant S. Mahajan , Xudong Sun , Junwei Zhao

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

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Observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) reveal ubiquitous episodic outflows (jets) with an average speed around 120 km s-1 at temperatures often exceeding a million degree in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-27 Hui Tian , Scott W. McIntosh , Shadia Rifal Habbal , Jiansen He

Convection in the solar interior is thought to comprise structures on a spectrum of scales. This conclusion emerges from phenomenological studies and numerical simulations, though neither covers the proper range of dynamical parameters of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shravan Hanasoge , Thomas L. Duvall , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Observations in the 171 AA channel of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of the space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory show tornadoes-like features in the atmosphere of the Sun. These giant tornadoes appear as dark, elongated and apparently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sven Wedemeyer , Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Antonija Bosnjak , Patrick Antolin

The propagation and dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves play a key role in transporting energy from the solar photosphere to the chromosphere. Using high-resolution three-dimensional radiative MHD simulations, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Nitin Yadav , Apanba Khuman

We study the generation of 2D turbulence in Faraday waves by investigating the creation of spatially periodic vortices in this system. Measurements which couple a diffusing light imaging technique and particle tracking algorithms allow the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-09 N. Francois , H. Xia , H. Punzmann , S. Ramsden , M. Shats

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of stellar and planetary interiors, we have performed a set of direct numerical simulations of Boussinesq convection in a rotating full sphere. The domain is internally heated with fixed temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yufeng Lin , Andrew Jackson

The relationship between vortex flows at different spatial scales and their contribution to the energy balance in the chromosphere is not yet fully understood. We perform three-dimensional (3D) radiation-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Nitin Yadav , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki

Experimental and numerical study of the steady-state cyclonic vortex from isolated heat source in a rotating fluid layer is described. The structure of laboratory cyclonic vortex is similar to the typical structure of tropical cyclones from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-03 A. Sukhanovskii , A. Evgrafova , E. Popova

The first two orbits of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft have enabled the first in situ measurements of the solar wind down to a heliocentric distance of 0.17 au (or 36 Rs). Here, we present an analysis of this data to study solar…

We study the intermittency properties of the energy and helicity cascades in two 1536^3 direct numerical simulations of helical rotating turbulence. Symmetric and anti-symmetric velocity increments are examined, as well as probability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Above the top of the solar corona, the young slow solar wind transitions from low-beta, magnetically structured flow dominated by radial structures, to high-beta, less structured flow dominated by hydrodynamics. This transition, long…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 C. E. DeForest , W. H. Matthaeus , N. M. Viall , S. R. Cranmer

We investigate the role of small-scale structures in turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) flows through the application of preferential flow control targeting high vorticity or high strain-rate regions (Buzzicotti et al. 2020). Through numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-10 Dongxiao Zhao , Gaojin Li

Following the findings in \cite{wangsawijaya2020}, we re-examine the turbulent boundary layers developing over surfaces with spanwise heterogeneous roughness of various roughness wavelengths $0.32 \leq S/\overline{\delta} \leq 3.63$, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-01 Dea Daniella Wangsawijaya , Nicholas Hutchins