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We consider the model of a transverse vector (e.g. magnetic) field with the most general form of the nonlinearity, known as the ${\cal A}$ model, passively advected by a strongly compressible turbulent flow, governed by the randomly stirred…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Nikolai V. Antonov , Maria M. Tumakova

Numerical simulations for flow and transport in subsurface porous media often prove computationally prohibitive due to property data availability at multiple spatial scales that can vary by orders of magnitude. A number of model order…

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We use a continuous mesoscopic model to address the yielding properties of plastic composites, formed by a host material and inclusions with different elastic and/or plastic properties. We investigate the flow properties of the composed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 E. A. Jagla

It is shown that statistical properties of developed hydrodynamic turbulence are characterized by an infinite set of independent anomalous exponents which describes the scaling behavior of hydrodynamic fields constructed from the second and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Vladimir V. Lebedev , Victor S. L'vov

We introduce a simple geometric model which describes the kinetics of fragmentation of d-dimensional objects. In one dimension our model coincides with the random scission model and show a simple scaling behavior in the long-time limit. For…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 P. L. Krapivsky , E. Ben-Naim

We study correlation properties of the generalized elastic model which accounts for the dynamics of polymers, membranes, surfaces and fluctuating interfaces, among others. We develop a theoretical framework which leads to the emergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-19 Alessandro Taloni , Aleksei Chechkin , Joseph Klafter

This article presents a theoretical study of the scaling properties of the kinetic energy spectrum in compressible turbulence. From the fundamental symmetries and linear transformations of the microscopic action, we derive exact relations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-16 Olivier Coquand

A slowly-varying or thin-layer multiscale assumption empowers macroscale understanding of many physical scenarios from dispersion in pipes and rivers, including beams, shells, and the modulation of nonlinear waves, to homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-22 A. J. Roberts

The dependence of the scaling properties of the structure factor on space dimensionality, range of interaction, initial and final conditions, presence or absence of a conservation law is analysed in the framework of the large-N model for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Antonio Coniglio , Patrizia Ruggiero , Marco Zannetti

Active turbulence is a paradigmatic and fascinating example of self-organized motion at large scales occurring in active matter. We employ massive hydrodynamic simulations of suspensions of resolved model microswimmers to tackle the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Antonio Gascó , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Andrea Scagliarini

Previous work has established the usefulness of the resolvent operator that maps the terms nonlinear in the turbulent fluctuations to the fluctuations themselves. Further work has described the self-similarity of the resolvent arising from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-12 A S Sharma , R Moarref , B J McKeon

The response of inviscid incompressible unbounded fluid subject to a localized external perturbation is studed. The physically relevant hypotheses on the mode coupling mechanisma is justified by renormalization group method. The scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri Volchenkov , Ricardo Lima

We propose an alternative formulation of structure functions for the velocity field in fully developed turbulence. Instead of averaging moments of the velocity differences as a function of the distance, we suggest to average moments of the…

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We consider a system of random walks in a random environment interacting via exclusion. The model is reversible with respect to a family of disordered Bernoulli measures. Assuming some weak mixing conditions, it is shown that, under…

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We demonstrate that the complex spatiotemporal structure in active fluids can feature characteristics of hyperuniformity. Using a hydrodynamic model, we show that the transition from hyperuniformity to non-hyperuniformity and…

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A novel route to instabilities and turbulence in fluid and plasma flows is presented in kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell model. New kind of flow instabilities is shown to arise due to the availability of new kinetic energy sources which are absent in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dhurjati Prasad Datta , Sudip Sen

The Kraichnan rapid advection model is recast as the stochastic dynamics of tracer trajectories. This framework replaces the random fields with a small set of stochastic ordinary differential equations. Multiscaling of correlation functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Omri Gat , Reuven Zeitak

We propose a multiscale approach for predicting quantities in dynamical systems which is explicitly structured to extract information in both fine-to-coarse and coarse-to-fine directions. We envision this method being generally applicable…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Karl Otness , Laure Zanna , Joan Bruna

Anomalous scaling in the statistics of an active scalar in homogeneous turbulent convection is studied using a dynamical shell model. We extend refined similarity ideas for homogeneous and isotropic turbulence to homogeneous turbulent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emily S. C. Ching , W. C. Cheng