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A remarkable feature of two-dimensional turbulence is the transfer of energy from small to large scales. This process can result in the self-organization of the flow into large, coherent structures due to energy condensation at the largest…

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

We investigate nonlinear energy transfer for channel flows at friction Reynolds numbers of $Re_{\tau}=180$ and $590$. The key feature of the analysis is that we introduce a new variable, which quantifies the energy transferred from a source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-15 Jitong Ding , Daniel Chung , Simon J. Illingworth

The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giovanni Lapenta , Martin Goldman , David Newman , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin

The impact of a turbulent flow on wind-driven oceanic near-inertial waves is examined using a linearised shallow-water model of the mixed layer. Modelling the flow as a homogeneous and stationary random process with spatial scales…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Eric Danioux , Jacques Vanneste

We investigate the dynamics of inertia-gravity wave modes in 3D rotating stratified fluids. We start by deriving a reduced PDE, the GGG model, consisting of only wave-mode interactions. In principle, comparing this model to the full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-03-05 Mark Remmel , Jai Sukhatme , Leslie M. Smith

Coasts are obstructions to the classical derivation of continuously stratified quasigeostrophic equations, due to possible resonances between slow internal coastally trapped Kelvin waves and anticyclones. [Deremble et al Ocean Modelling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Antoine Venaille

Inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) play an essential role in the terrestrial atmospheric dynamics as they can lead to energy and momentum flux when propagating upwards. An open question is to which extent IGWs contribute to the total energy and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Costanza Rodda , Uwe Harlander

The spontaneous emission of internal waves (IWs) from balanced mesoscale eddies has been previously proposed to provide a source of oceanic IW kinetic energy (KE). This study examines the mechanisms leading to the spontaneous emission of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-18 Subhajit Kar , Roy Barkan , James C. McWilliams , M. Jeroen Molemaker

We calculate the net energy per unit time exchanged between two sets of modes in a generic system governed by a three-wave kinetic equation. Our calculation is based on the property of detailed energy conservation of the triadic resonant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Giovanni Dematteis , Yuri V. Lvov

The various patterns of internal solitary wave interactions are complex phenomena in the ocean, susceptible to the influence of shear flow and density distributions. Satellite imagery serves as an effective tool for investigating these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Junchao Sun , Xiaoyan Tang , Yong Chen

The Ocean's turbulent energy cycle has a paradox; large-scale eddies under the control of Earth's rotation primarily transfer kinetic energy (KE) to larger scales via an inverse cascade, while a transfer to smaller scales is needed to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Dhruv Balwada , Jin-Han Xie , Raffaele Marino , Fabio Feraco

Wind waves are considered as an intermediate small-scale dynamic process at the air-sea interface,which modulates radically middle-scale dynamic processes of the boundary layers in water and air. It is shown that with the aim of a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Vladislav G. Polnikov

Wind forcing of the ocean generates a spectrum of inertia-gravity waves that is sharply peaked near the local inertial (or Coriolis) frequency. The corresponding near-inertial waves (NIWs) are highly energetic and play a significant role in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jin-Han Xie , Jacques Vanneste

The ocean and the atmosphere, and hence the climate, are governed at large scale by interactions between pressure gradient, Coriolis and buoyancy forces. This leads to a quasi-geostrophic balance in which, in a two-dimensional-like fashion,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Pouquet , R. Marino

Interscale energy transfer in wall turbulence has been intensively studied in recent years, and both the forward (i.e. from larger to smaller scales) and reversed transfers of turbulent energy have been found whereas their corresponding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-11 Takuya Kawata , Takahiro Tsukahara

We present the first estimate for the ocean's global scale-transfer of kinetic energy (KE), across scales from 10~km to 40000~km. We show the existence of oceanic KE transfer between gyre-scales and mesoscales induced by the atmosphere's…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Benjamin A. Storer , Michele Buzzicotti , Hemant Khatri , Stephen M. Griffies , Hussein Aluie

We analyze analytically and numerically the scale invariant stationary solution to the internal wave kinetic equation. Our analysis of the resonant energy transfers shows that the leading order contributions are given (i) by triads with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-01 Giovanni Dematteis , Yuri V. Lvov

Ocean turbulence plays a key role in shaping large-scale circulation, heat uptake, and biogeochemical processes. The kinetic energy (KE) wavenumber spectrum is a fundamental diagnostic, quantifying how KE is distributed across spatial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ayantika Bhattacharjee , Spencer Jones , Dhruv Balwada , Shane Elipot , Manuel Gutierrez-Villanueva

To comprehensively understand saturation of two-dimensional ($2$D) magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence, energy transfer analysis is extended from the traditional interaction between scales to include eigenmode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , E. H. Anders

The interaction between small-scale waves and a larger-scale flow can be described by a multi-scale theory that forms the basis for a new class of parameterizations of subgrid-scale gravity waves (GW) in weather and climate models. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Ulrich Achatz , Young-Ha Kim , Georg Sebastian Voelker