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The bubbles involved in sonochemistry and other applications of cavitation oscillate inertially. A correct estimation of the wave attenuation in such bubbly media requires a realistic estimation of the power dissipated by the oscillation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-26 Olivier Louisnard

Classically, large-scale forced turbulence is characterized by a transfer of energy from large to small scales via nonlinear interactions. We have investigated the changes in this energy transfer process in broad-band forced turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. Kuczaj , B. J. Geurts , W. D. McComb

We develop an analytic framework to understand fragmentation in turbulent, self-gravitating media. Previously, we showed some properties of turbulence can be predicted with the excursion-set formalism. Here, we generalize to fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins

Knowledge of bubble and drop size distributions in two-phase flows is important for characterizing a wide range of phenomena, including combustor ignition, sonar communication, and cloud formation. The physical mechanisms driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Michael S. Dodd , Perry L. Johnson , Parviz Moin

Turbulent puffs are ubiquitous in everyday life phenomena. Understanding their dynamics is important in a variety of situations ranging from industrial processes to pure and applied science. In all these fields, a deep knowledge of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Andrea Mazzino , Marco E Rosti

Turbulent flows in three dimensions are characterized by the transport of energy from large to small scales through the energy cascade. Since the small scales are the result of the nonlinear dynamics across the scales, they are often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Lukas Bentkamp , Michael Wilczek

In turbulence phenomena, including the quantum turbulence in superfluids, an energy flux flows from large to small length scales, composing a cascade of energy. A universal characteristic of turbulent flows is the existence of a range of…

Enhancing the efficiency of water electrolysis, which can be severely impacted by the nucleation and growth of bubbles, is key in the energy transition. In this combined experimental and numerical study, in-situ bubble evolution and…

With the aim of assessing internal wave-driven mixing in the ocean, we develop a new technique for direct numerical simulations of stratified turbulence. Since the spatial scale of oceanic internal gravity waves is typically much larger…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Y. Onuki , S. Joubaud , T. Dauxois

This investigation presents evidence of the relation between the dynamics of intense events in small-scale turbulence and the energy cascade. We use the generalised (H\"older) means to track the temporal evolution of intense events of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-18 Alberto Vela-Martín

Bubbles driven by energy and mass injection from small scales are ubiquitous in astrophysical fluid systems and essential to feedback across multiple scales. In particular, O stars in young clusters produce high velocity winds that create…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Lachlan Lancaster , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Greg L. Bryan

The properties of bubble-laden turbulent flows at different scales are investigated experimentally, focusing on the flow kinetic energy, energy transfer, and extreme events. The experiments employed particle shadow velocimetry measurements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tian Ma , Hendrik Hessenkemper , Dirk Lucas , Andrew D. Bragg

To the naked eye, turbulent flows exhibit whirls of many different sizes. To each size, or scale, corresponds a fraction of the total energy resulting from a cascade in five dimensions: scale, time and three-dimensional space. Understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-23 José I. Cardesa , Alberto Vela-Martín , Javier Jiménez

We consider the evolution of a family of 2D dispersive turbulence models. The members of this family involve the nonlinear advection of a dynamically active scalar field, the locality of the streamfunction-scalar relation is denoted by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-20 Jai Sukhatme , Leslie M. Smith

Turbulent flows are out-of-equilibrium because the energy supply at large scales and its dissipation by viscosity at small scales create a net transfer of energy among all scales. Here, the energy cascade is approximated by a combined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-11 Amilcare Porporato , Milad Hooshyar , Andrew D Bragg , Gabriel Katul

In elastic-wave turbulence, strong turbulence appears in small wave numbers while weak turbulence does in large wave numbers. Energy transfers in the coexistence of these turbulent states are numerically investigated in both of the Fourier…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-28 Naoto Yokoyama , Masanori Takaoka

Turbulence is an intriguing non-equilibrium state, which originates from fluid mechanics and has far-reaching consequences in the description of climate physics, the characterization of quantum hydrodynamics, and the understanding of cosmic…

Two-dimensional turbulence self-organizes through a process of energy accumulation at large scales, forming a coherent flow termed a condensate. We study the condensate in a model with local dynamics, the large-scale quasi-geostrophic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Anton Svirsky , Corentin Herbert , Anna Frishman

We prove that inter-scale transfer of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence is dominated by local interactions. In particular, our results preclude direct transfer of kinetic energy from large-scales directly to dissipation scales, such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hussein Aluie

This paper looks at the two-layer ocean model from a wave turbulence perspective. A symmetric form of the two-layer kinetic equation for Rossby waves is derived using canonical variables, allowing the turbulent cascade of energy between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Katie L Harper , Sergey V Nazarenko , Sergey B Medvedev , Colm Connaughton