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Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow…

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Vorticity plays a prominent role in the dynamics of incompressible viscous flows. In two-dimensional freely decaying turbulence, after a short transient period, evolution is essentially driven by interactions of viscous vortices, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Thierry Gallay , Yasunori Maekawa

We study the two-dimensional stationary Navier-Stokes equations describing the flows around a rotating obstacle. The unique existence of solutions and their asymptotic behavior at spatial infinity are established when the rotation speed of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Mitsuo Higaki , Yasunori Maekawa , Yuu Nakahara

We use the recent frame-indifferent theory of diffusive momentum transport to identify internal barriers in wall-bounded turbulence. Formed by the invariant manifolds of the Laplacian of the velocity field, the barriers block the viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-25 Nikolas O. Aksamit , George Haller

We show that a vortex matter, that is a dense assembly of vortices in an incompressible two-dimensional flow, such as a fast rotating superfluid or turbulent flows with sign-like eddies, exhibits (i) a boundary layer of vorticity (vorticity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-05 Alexander Bogatskiy , Paul Wiegmann

As a model for vortex-wall interactions, we consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in the half-plane $R^2_+$ with no-slip boundary condition and point vortices as initial data. We focus on the paradigmatic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Thierry Gallay

Large-eddy simulations of a flat-plate boundary layer, without a leading edge, subject to multiple levels of incoming free stream turbulence are considered in the present work. Within an input-output model where non-linear terms of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-19 Diego C. P. Blanco , Ardeshir Hanifi , Dan S. Henningson , André V. G. Cavalieri

The scale-invariant inverse energy cascade is a hallmark of 2D turbulence, with its theoretical energy spectrum observed in both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and laboratory experiments. Under this scale-invariance assumption, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Julie Meunier , Basile Gallet

We consider the inviscid limit for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in the particular case where the initial flow is a finite collection of point vortices. We suppose that the initial positions and the circulations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Thierry Gallay

Consider the steady neutron transport equation in 2D convex domains with in-flow boundary condition. In this paper, we establish the diffusive limit while the boundary layers are present. Our contribution relies on a delicate decomposition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Lei Wu

We present experimental and theoretical results on formation of quantum vortices in a laser beam propagating in a nonlinear medium. Topological constrains richer than the mere conservation of vorticity impose an elaborate dynamical behavior…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-22 Thibault Congy , Pierre Azam , Robin Kaiser , Nicolas Pavloff

We investigate a mechanism to manipulate wall-bounded flows whereby wave-like undulations of the wall topography drives the creation of bespoke longitudinal vortices. A resonant interaction between the ambient vorticity of the undisturbed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-10 Andreas H. Akselsen , Simen Å. Ellingsen

Fractional Navier-Stokes equations -- featuring a fractional Laplacian -- provide a `bridge' between the Euler equations (zero diffusion) and the Navier-Stokes equations (full diffusion). The problem of whether an initially smooth flow can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Jiayi Wang

Vortex is a central concept in the understanding of turbulent dynamics. Objective algorithms for the detection and extraction of vortex structures can facilitate the physical understanding of turbulence regeneration dynamics by enabling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-06 Lu Zhu , Li Xi

To produce a vortex, a torque must be applied to the fluid. In viscous fluids, the torques that produce turbulent vortices result from the loss of symmetry of the stress tensor, once the viscous friction exceeds the shear stress resistance…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 A. Paglietti

In this paper, the solutions of Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions governing 2-D incompressible fluid flows are considered. A condition for boundary layer separation, which is determined by initial values and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-12 Hong Luo , Quan Wang , Tian Ma

We formulate a quantum theory of vorticity (hydro)dynamics on a general two-dimensional bosonic lattice. In the classical limit of a bosonic condensate, it reduces to conserved plasma-like vortex-antivortex dynamics. The nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Ji Zou

This is the second of two papers devoted to the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a half-space with point vortex initial data. A major difficulty stems from the interaction between the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chao Wang , Jingchao Yue , Zhifei Zhang

In fairly general conditions we give explicit (smooth) solutions for the potential flow. We show that, rigorously speaking, the equations of the fluid mechanics have not rotational solutions. However, within the usual approximations of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-21 Marian Apostol

The question of whether significant sub-volumes of a turbulent flow can be identified by automatic means, independently of a-priori assumptions, is addressed using the example of two-dimensional decaying turbulence. Significance is defined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-10 Javier Jimenez