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Turbulent flows exhibit intriguing energy transfers. In this paper, we compute the renormalized viscosities, mode-to-mode energy transfers, energy fluxes, and shell-to-shell energy transfers for the two-dimensional (2D) and…

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The transport equations for velocity variances are investigated using data from DNS of incompressible channel flows at $Re_\tau$ up to 5200. Each term in the transport equation has been spectrally decomposed to expose the contribution of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-26 Myoungkyu Lee , Robert D. Moser

A novel investigation of the nature of intermittency in incompressible, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is performed by a numerical study of the Navier-Stokes equations constrained on a fractal Fourier set. The robustness of the energy…

The reciprocal energy and enstrophy transfers between normal fluid and superfluid components dictate the overall dynamics of superfluid $^4$He including the generation, evolution and coupling of coherent structures, the distribution of…

Compressible turbulence governs energy transfer across scales in space and astrophysical systems. Capturing both the turbulence cascade and damping is therefore crucial for models of energy conversion, plasma heating, and particle transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chuanpeng Hou , Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao , Parth Pavaskar

It is known that turbulent energy is rapidly transferred in the direction of the rotation axis in a rotating system, in comparison with the non-rotating case. In this study, this phenomenon is investigated as a problem of energy diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-12 Kazuhiro Inagaki , Fujihiro Hamba

We address the experimentally observed non-Gaussian fluctuations for the energy injected into a closed turbulent flow at fixed Reynolds number. We propose that the power fluctuations mirror the internal kinetic energy fluctuations. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Portelli , P. C. W. Holdsworth , J. -F. Pinton

The breaking of detailed balance, the symmetry between forward and backward probability transition between two states, is crucial to understand irreversible systems. In hydrodynamic turbulence, a far-from equilibrium system, we observe a…

In hydrodynamic (HD) turbulence an exact decomposition of the energy flux across scales has been derived that identifies the contributions associated with vortex stretching and strain self-amplification (P. Johnson, Phys. Rev. Lett., 124,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-16 D. Capocci , P. Johnson , S. Oughton , L. Biferale , M. Linkmann

By using direct numerical simulations of up to a record resolution of 512x512x32768 grid points we discover the existence of a new metastable out-of-equilibrium state in rotating turbulence. We scan the phase space by varying both the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-21 P. Clark Di Leoni , A. Alexakis , L. Biferale , M. Buzzicotti

We explore the possible regimes of decaying two-dimensional quantum turbulence, and elucidate the nature of spectral energy transport by introducing a dissipative point-vortex model with phenomenological vortex-sound interactions. The model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 T. P. Billam , M. T. Reeves , A. S. Bradley

Inviscid invariants of flow equations are crucial in determining the direction of the turbulent energy cascade. In this work we investigate a variant of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations that shares exactly the same ideal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-25 Ganapati Sahoo , Alexandros Alexakis , Luca Biferale

We examine how local streamline topology and energy cascade rate self-organize in plasma turbulence for both compressible and incompressible regimes. Using a fully-compressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamic simulation, we quantify the…

A decomposition of the energy and helicity fluxes in a turbulent hydrodynamic flow is proposed. The decomposition is based on the projection of the flow to a helical basis that allows to investigate separately the role of interactions among…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alexandros Alexakis

In recent years, scale-by-scale energy transport in wall turbulence has been intensively studied, and the complex spatial and interscale transfer of turbulent energy has been investigated. As the enhancement of heat transfer is one of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-01 Takuya Kawata , Takahiro Tsukahara

A methodology is developed to quantify the transfer and transport of kinetic energy of specific scales associated with coherent structures. Coherent motions are characterized by the triple decomposition of a multi-scale flow and used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-17 Daniel Foti

The nonlinear transfer rate of the total energy (transfer rate of kinetic energy + transfer rate due to the work done by the magnetization) for an incompressible turbulent ferrofluid system is studied under the assumption of statistical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sukhdev Mouraya , Nandita Pan , Supratik Banerjee

We investigate the role of laminar/turbulent interface in the interscale energy transfer in a boundary layer undergoing bypass transition, with the aid of the Karman-Howarth-Monin-Hill (KHMH) equation. A local binary indicator function is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-19 Hanxun Yao , George Papadakis

The nature of the turbulent energy transfer rate is studied using direct numerical simulations of weakly collisional space plasmas. This is done comparing results obtained from hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell simulations of colissionless plasmas,…

The existence of a total energy cascade and the scale-locality of the total energy flux are rigorously established working directly from the 3D MHD equations and under assumptions consistent with physical properties of turbulent plasmas.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Z. Bradshaw , Z. Grujić