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In this work, we study the large-scale structure of homogeneous flows displaying high density contrasts and small turbulent Mach numbers. Following Batchelor & Proudman (PTRSA 258, 1956), we draw an analogy between this configuration and…
Turbulence closure for the weakly nonlinear stochastic waves requires, besides weak nonlinearity, randomness in both the phases and the amplitudes of the Fourier modes. This randomness, once present initially, must remain over the nonlinear…
Intermittency is an essential property of astrophysical fluids, which demonstrate an extended inertial range. As intermittency violates self-similarity of motions, it gets impossible to naively extrapolate the properties of fluid obtained…
Persistence is defined as the probability that the local value of a fluctuating field remains at a particular state for a certain amount of time, before being switched to another state. The concept of persistence has been found to have many…
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We find strong evidence for intermittency in forced two dimensional (2D) turbulence in a flowing soap film experiment. In the forward enstrophy cascade the structure function scaling exponents are nearly indistinguishable from 3D studies.…
We study the statistics of turbulent velocity fluctuations in the neighbourhood of a strong large scale vortex at very large Reynolds number. At each distance from the vortex core, we observe that the velocity spectrum has a power law…
This article discusses the description of wall-bounded turbulence as a deterministic high-dimensional dynamical system of interacting coherent structures, defined as eddies with enough internal dynamics to behave relatively autonomously…
The self-similar Richardson cascade admits two logically possible scenarios of small-scale turbulence at high Reynolds numbers. In the first scenario, eddies' population densities vary as a function of eddies' scales. As a result, one or a…
Prolongating our previous paper on the Einstein relation, we study the motion of a particle diffusing in a random reversible environment when subject to a small external forcing. In order to describe the long time behavior of the particle,…
The deformation of finite-sized bubbles in intense turbulence exhibits complex geometries beyond simple spheroids as the bubbles exchange energy with the surrounding eddies across a wide range of scales. This study investigates deformation…
Turbulence sustains out-of-equilibrium energy fluxes shaped by conservation laws. Three-dimensional flows conserve energy and sign-indefinite helicity, both being transferred to small scales. Yet in 3D rotating turbulence, energy is…
The dependence of intermittent inertial properties on ultraviolet eddy viscosity closures is examined within the framework of shell-models of turbulent flows. Inertial intermittent exponents turn out to be fairly independent on the way…
We consider the statistics of density number of filaments for the propagation of a laser beam subjected to multiple filamentation in a closed area with reflecting boundaries. Dissipation arrests the catastrophic collapse of filaments,…
The transport by materially coherent eddies is studied in a two-layer quasigeostrophic model of geophysical turbulence. The coherent eddies are identified by closed contours of the Lagrangian-averaged vorticity deviation obtained from…
We investigate long-time properties of three-dimensional MHD turbulence in the absence of forcing and examine in particular the role played by the quadratic invariants of the system and by the symmetries of the initial configurations. We…
In this paper the capabilities of the turbulence-resolving Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow model to predict the suspension of mono-dispersed finite-sized solid particles in a boundary layer flow are investigated. For heavier-than-fluid…
Turbulence is defined as an eddy-like state of fluid motion where the inertial-vortex forces of the eddies are larger than any of the other forces that tend to damp the eddies out. Energy cascades of irrotational flows from large scales to…
We investigate experimentally phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of micron-size solid particles in an inhomogeneous convective turbulence forced by one vertically-oriented oscillating grid in an air flow. This effect causes formation…
We analyse the long-lasting effects of initial conditions on fluctuations in one-dimensional diffusive systems. We consider both the fluctuations of current for non-interacting diffusive particles starting from a step-like initial density…