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In the context of subaqueous ripple and dune formation, we present here a Reynolds averaged calculation of the turbulent flow over a topography. We perform a weakly non-linear expansion of the velocity field, sufficiently accurate to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-14 A. Fourrière , P. Claudin , B. Andreotti

This text presents one of the first successful applications of a rare events method for the study of multistability in a turbulent flow without stochastic energy injection. The trajectories of collapse of turbulence in plane Couette flow,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-29 Joran Rolland

A modelling framework based on the resolvent analysis and machine learning is proposed to predict the turbulent energy in incompressible channel flows. In the framework, the optimal resolvent response modes are selected as the basis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-11 Yitong Fan , Bo Chen , Weipeng Li

The variance and spectra of wall-normal velocities are investigated for direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a channel, pipe, and zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer across a decade of friction Reynolds numbers. Spectra along…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-22 Michael Heisel , Rahul Deshpande , Gabriel G. Katul

In linearly stable shear flows turbulence spontaneously decays with a characteristic lifetime that varies with Reynolds number. The lifetime sharply increases with Reynolds number so that a possible divergence marking the transition to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-24 Tobias Kreilos , Bruno Eckhardt , Tobias M. Schneider

A simple analytical model for a turbulent flow is proposed, which considers the flow as a collection of localized spatial structures that are composed of elementary "cells" in which the state of the particles (atoms or molecules) is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-09 Sergei F. Chekmarev

We present a simple model for the development of shear layers between parallel flows in confining channels. Such flows are important across a wide range of topics from diffusers, nozzles and ducts to urban air flow and geophysical fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-09 GP Benham , AA Castrejon-Pita , IJ Hewitt , CP Please , RW Style , P Bird

A study of fully developed plane turbulent channel flow subject to spanwise system rotation through direct numerical simulations is presented. In order to study both the influence of the Reynolds number and spanwise rotation on channel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-31 Geert Brethouwer

Disentangling the evolution of a coherent mean-flow and turbulent fluctuations, interacting through the non-linearity of the Navier-Stokes equations, is a central issue in fluid mechanics. It affects a wide range of flows, such as planetary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Anna Frishman , Corentin Herbert

We demonstrate the existence of interface-induced turbulence, an emergent nonequilibrium statistically steady state (NESS) with spatiotemporal chaos, which is induced by interfacial fluctuations in low-Reynolds-number binary-fluid mixtures.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-15 Nadia Bihari Padhan , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

We investigate the Reynolds-shear-stress carrying structures in the outer layer of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers using four direct numerical simulation databases, two cases of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 M. Ali Yesildag , Taygun R. Gungor , Ayse G. Gungor , Yvan Maciel

Taylor-Couette flow -- the flow between two coaxial co- or counter-rotating cylinders -- is one of the paradigmatic systems in physics of fluids. The (dimensionless) control parameters are the Reynolds numbers of the inner and outer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-02 Siegfried Grossmann , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

The nonequilibrium dissipation behaviour discovered for decaying fractal square grid-generated turbulence is experimentally investigated using hot-wire anemometry in a wind tunnel. The previous results are consolidated and benchmarked with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-25 Pedro C. Valente

Non-normal transient growth of disturbances is considered as an essential prerequisite for subcritical transition in shear flows, i.e. transition to turbulence despite linear stability of the laminar flow. In this work we present numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-06 Simon Maretzke , Björn Hof , Marc Avila

Laminar-turbulent intermittency is intrinsic to the transitional regime of a wide range of fluid flows including pipe, channel, boundary layer and Couette flow. In the latter turbulent spots can grow and form continuous stripes, yet in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-11 Liang Shi , Marc Avila , Bjoern Hof

Turbulent signals are known to exhibit burst-like activities, which affect the turbulence statistics at both large and small scales of the flow. In our study, we pursue this problem from the perspective of an event-based framework, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-26 Subharthi Chowdhuri , Tirtha Banerjee

Turbulence in fluids is an ubiquitous phenomenon, characterized by spontaneous transition of a smooth, laminar flow to rapidly changing, chaotic dynamics. In 1883, Reynolds experimentally demonstrated that, in an initially laminar flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Rafail V. Abramov

In this Letter we suggest a simple and physically transparent analytical model of the pressure driven turbulent wall-bounded flows at high but finite Reynolds numbers Re. The model gives accurate qualitative description of the profiles of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-18 Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia , Oleksii Rudenko

We perform direct numerical simulations of wall sheared Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection for Rayleigh numbers up to $Ra=10^8$, Prandtl number unity, and wall shear Reynolds numbers up to $Re_w=10000$. Using the Monin-Obukhov length…

The decay of turbulent and laminar oblique bands in the lower transitional range of plane Couette flow is studied by means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier--Stokes equations. We consider systems that are extended enough for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Manneville