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Nonlinear interaction and breaking of internal ocean waves are responsible for much of the interior ocean mixing, affecting ocean carbon storage and the global overturning circulation. These interactions may affect the observed Garrett-Munk…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Golan Bel , Eli Tziperman

The atmosphere is a nonlinear stratified fluid in which internal gravity waves are present. These waves interact with the flow, resulting in wave turbulence that displays important differences with the turbulence observed in isotropic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni

The flow of liquid metal inside the Earth's core produces the geomagnetic field and its time variations. Understanding the variability of those deep currents is crucial to improve the forecast of geomagnetic field variations, which affect…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Alexandra Pais , Anna Morozova , Nathanaël Schaeffer

Confined granular fluids, placed in a shallow box that is vibrated vertically, can achieve homogeneous stationary states thanks to energy injection mechanisms that take place throughout the system. These states can be stable even at high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Ricardo Brito , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto

A two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves retaining ion finite Larmor radius corrections and parallel magnetic field fluctuations is used to study direct turbulent cascades from the MHD to the sub-ion scales. For…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , D. Laveder

The motion of a container filled with fluid perturbs the free surface and may result in spilling. In practice, most of the energy is localized in the modes of lowest frequencies (the gravest modes), and sloshing can be predicted once the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-14 Guillaume Michel

We argue that the physics of interacting Kelvin Waves (KWs) is highly non-trivial and cannot be understood on the basis of pure dimensional reasoning. A consistent theory of KW turbulence in superfluids should be based upon explicit…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jason Laurie , Victor S. L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko , Oleksii Rudenko

By an idealized quantum mechanical model, we formally describe the dispersion of nonretarded electromagnetic waves that express charge density oscillations near a fixed plane in three spatial dimensions (3D) at zero temperature. Our goal is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Dionisios Margetis

Equilibrium statistical mechanics tools have been developed to obtain indications about the natural tendencies of nonlinear energy transfers in two-dimensional and quasi two-dimensional flows like rotating and stratified flows in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-11 Corentin Herbert

The momentum transfer between the normal components to an index direction in the collision of an atom with a periodic surface is investigated. For fast atoms with grazing angle of incidence there is an interval of azimuthal angles around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 Antonia Ruiz , Jose P. Palao , Eric J. Heller

Solar wind electrons play an important role in the energy balance of the solar wind acceleration by carrying energy into interplanetary space in the form of electron heat flux. The heat flux is stored in the complex electron velocity…

In this paper, we address the motion of charged particles subjected to a discrete spectrum of electrostatic waves. We focus on situations when transport dominates, leading to significant variations in particle velocity. Nonetheless, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Didier Bénisti

An aquaplanet model is used to study the nature of the highly persistent low frequency waves that have been observed in models forced by zonally symmetric boundary conditions. Using the Hayashi spectral analysis of the extratropical waves,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-13 Giuseppe Zappa , Valerio Lucarini , Antonio Navarra

Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

The rotating shallow water equations with f-plane approximation and nonlinear bottom drag are a prototypical model for mid-latitude geophysical flow that experience energy loss through simple topography. Motivated by numerical schemes for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 Artur Prugger , Jens D. M. Rademacher , Jichen Yang

A pair of nonlinear diffusion equations in Fourier space} is used to study the dynamics of strong Alfv\'en-wave turbulence, from MHD to electron scales. Special attention is paid to the regime of imbalance between the energies of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 George Miloshevich , Thierry Passot , Pierre-Louis Sulem

In multiphase flows, kinetic and interfacial energies coexist, and their mutual conversion can strongly influence the overall energy balance. However, in statistically steady flows these energy reservoirs remain constant, making such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-20 Fabien Thiesset , Jonathan Vahé

The dynamics of perturbations to large-amplitude Internal Solitary Waves (ISW) in two-layered flows with thin interfaces is analyzed by means of linear optimal transient growth methods. Optimal perturbations are computed through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Pierre-Yves Passaggia , Karl R. Helfrich , Brian L. White

Energy flux is an acoustic propagation model that calculates the locally-averaged intensity without computing explicit eigenvalues or tracing rays. The energy flux method has so far only been used for two-dimensional problems that have…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Mark Langhirt , Charles Holland , Sheri Martinelli , Ying-Tsong Lin , Dan Brown