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We derive a new shell model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in which the energy transfers are not necessary local. Like the original MHD equations, the model conserves the total energy, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity and volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Plunian , R. Stepanov

The first consistent model for the turbulent tachocline is presented, with the turbulent diffusivity computed within the model instead of being specified arbitrarily. For the origin of the 3D turbulence a new mechanism is proposed. Owing to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Petrovay

A two-dimensional generalized cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with complex coefficients for the group dispersion and nonlinear terms is used to investigate the evolution of a finite-amplitude localized initial perturbation. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dian Zhao , M. Y. Yu

We present an approach to turbulence closure based on mixing length theory with three-dimensional fluctuations against a two-dimensional background. This model is intended to be rapidly computable for implementation in stellar evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 Adam S. Jermyn , Pierre Lesaffre , Christopher A. Tout , Shashikumar M. Chitre

The dynamics of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence convection in presence of an alternating, time periodic acceleration is studied by means of extensive direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. Within this framework, we discover a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Boffetta , M. Magnani , S. Musacchio

Motivated by explosive releases of energy in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas, we consider the nonlinear stability of stratified magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria against two-dimensional interchanges of straight magnetic-flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 David N. Hosking , David Wasserman , Steven C. Cowley

Liquid-gas phase coexistence in a boundary-driven diffusive system is studied by analyzing fluctuating hydrodynamics of a density field defined on a one-dimensional lattice with a space interval $\Lambda$. When an interface width $\ell$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-28 Shin-ichi Sasa , Naoko Nakagawa

A central obstacle to understanding the route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows is that the flows are composed of complex, highly fluctuating, and strongly nonlinear states. In the case of pipe flow, models have deepened our understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Santiago J. Benavides , Dwight Barkley

This paper presents a class of turbulence models written in terms of fractional partial differential equations (FPDEs) with stochastic loads. Every solution of these FPDE models is an incompressible velocity field and the distribution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Brendan Keith , Ustim Khristenko , Barbara Wohlmuth

A combination of analytical and numerical techniques are used to efficiently determine the qualitative and quantitative behaviour of a one-basin zonally averaged thermohaline circulation ocean model. In contrast to earlier studies which use…

ao-sci · Physics 2018-07-25 G. A. Schmidt , L. A. Mysak

Stability of the zero solution plays an important role in the investigation of positive systems. In this note, we revisit the $\mu$-stability of positive nonlinear systems with unbounded time-varying delays. The system is modelled by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-29 xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

This is a study of two-dimensional steady periodic travelling waves on the surface of an infinitely deep irrotational ocean, when the top streamline is in contact with a membrane which has a nonlinear response to stretching and bending, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Pietro Baldi , John F. Toland

In this paper we consider the following form of the so-called Mean field equation arising from the statistical mechanics description of two dimensional turbulence \begin{equation}\label{eq:study} - \D_g u = \rho_1 (\frac{e^{u}}{\int_\Sig…

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Aims. This series of papers aims at building a new formalism specifically tailored to study the impact of turbulence on the global modes of oscillation in solar-like stars. This first paper aims at deriving a linear wave equation that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 J. Philidet , K. Belkacem , M. -J. Goupil

In this note, we propose a new idea by analyzing the basic disturbance equations, and give starting equations for understanding the instability phenomena of laminar flows and transition to turbulence. It is considered that there is an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

The two-dimensional ideal fluid and the plasma confined by a strong magnetic field exhibit an intrinsic tendency to organization due to the inverse spectral cascade. In the asymptotic states reached at relaxation the turbulence has vanished…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

In finite-dimensional dynamical systems, stochastic stability provides the selection of physical relevant measures from the myriad invariant measures of conservative systems. That this might also apply to infinite-dimensional systems is the…

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