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We present laboratory experiments on turbulence in a linearly stratified fluid driven by an ensemble of internal gravity waves which approaches statistical homogeneity and axi-symmetry. In a way similar to several recent experimental works,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Nicolas Lanchon , Daniel Odens Mora , Eduardo Monsalve , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

The search for solutions to the theory of weakly non-linear internal gravity wave turbulence is an active research topic. It is notably stimulated by the fact that this regime could drive fine-scale ocean dynamics for which the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Samuel Boury , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

We report on the statistical analysis of stratified turbulence forced by large-scale waves. The setup mimics some features of the tidal forcing of turbulence in the ocean interior at submesoscales. Our experiments are performed in the…

We investigate experimentally stratified turbulence forced by waves. Stratified turbulence is present in oceans and it is expected to be dominated by nonlinear interaction of internal gravity waves as described by the Garrett & Munk…

The comprehension of stratified flows is important for geophysical and astrophysical applications. The Weak Wave Turbulence theory aims to provide a statistical description of internal gravity waves propagating in the bulk of such flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-21 Vincent Labarre , Pierre Augier , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

Using weak wave turbulence theory analysis, we distinguish three main regimes for 2D stratified fluids in the dimensionless parameter space defined by the Froude number and the Reynolds number: discrete wave turbulence, weak wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Vincent Labarre , Michal Shavit

We report the quantitative experimental observation of the weak inertial-wave turbulence regime of rotating turbulence. We produce a statistically steady homogeneous turbulent flow that consists of nonlinearly interacting inertial waves,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Eduardo Monsalve , Maxime Brunet , Basile Gallet , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

We investigate the stability of stratified fluid layers undergoing homogeneous and periodic tidal deformation. We first introduce a local model which allows to study velocity and buoyancy fluctuations in a Lagrangian domain periodically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Thomas Le Reun , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

Wave turbulence formalism for long internal waves in a stratified fluid is developed, based on a natural Hamiltonian description. A kinetic equation appropriate for the description of spectral energy transfer is derived, and its…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Lvov , Esteban G. Tabak

We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to model the development of turbulence in a quantum fluid confined by a cuboid box potential, and forced by shaking along one axis. We observe the development of isotropic turbulence from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Tommy Z. Fischer , Ashton S. Bradley

Internal waves, or waves that propagate within a stratified fluid, may break and cause mixing. While each individual mixing event may be small, collectively, internal wave breaking drive processes in the ocean that are critical to…

Starting from the classical formulation of the weak turbulence theory in a density stratified fluid, we derive a simplified version of the kinetic equation of internal gravity wave turbulence. This equation allows us to uncover scaling laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

We report an experimental investigation of the effect of finite depth on the statistical properties of wave turbulence at the surface of water in the gravity-capillary range. We tune the wave dispersion and the level of nonlinearity by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-15 Roumaissa Hassaini , Nicolas Mordant

After the pioneering work of Garrett and Munk, the statistics of oceanic internal gravity waves has become a central subject of research in oceanography. The time evolution of the spectral energy of internal waves in the ocean can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Irene M. Gamba , Leslie M. Smith , Minh-Binh Tran

In this paper, we numerically study the wave turbulence of surface gravity waves in the framework of Euler equations of the free surface. The purpose is to understand the variation of the scaling of the spectra with wavenumber $k$ and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhou Zhang , Yulin Pan

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

The evolution of surface gravity waves is driven by nonlinear interactions that trigger an energy cascade similarly to the one observed in hydrodynamic turbulence. This process, known as wave turbulence, has been found to display anomalous…

We present a derivation using kinetic wave theory of the two-dimensional empirical Garrett--Munk spectrum for ocean internal waves, valid at all frequencies including near-inertial frequencies. This is based directly on the governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Michal Shavit , Oliver Bühler , Jalal Shatah

We experimentally investigate the effects of finite-system size on the dynamics of weakly nonlinear random gravity-capillary surface waves. Experiments are conducted in rectangular tanks with varying aspect ratios, in which the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tanu Singla , Jean-Baptiste Gorce , Eric Falcon

Stratified flows forced by internal waves similar to those obtained in the Coriolis platform (LEGI, Grenoble, France) \cite{Savaro2020} are studied by pseudospectral triply-periodic simulations. The experimental forcing mechanism consisting…

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