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The response of superfluids to the external rotation, evidenced by emergence of quantised vortices, distinguishes them from conventional fluids. In this work, we demonstrate that the number of vortices in a stirred polariton condensate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ivan Gnusov , Stella Harrison , Sergey Alyatkin , Kirill Sitnik , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We present measurements of the large-scale circulation (LSC) of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection in water-filled cylindrical samples of heights equal to their diameters. The orientation of the LSC had an irregular time dependence, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Brown , Guenter Ahlers

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection on a $f$-plane at colatitude $\vartheta_f$ is investigated numerically using an asymptotically reduced equation set valid in the limit of very rapid rotation. The equations provide a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Benjamin Miquel , Abram Ellison , Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

We report an experimental study of the properties of the velocity boundary layer in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in a cylindrical cell. The measurements were made at Rayleigh numbers $Ra$ in the range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ping Wei , Ke-Qing Xia

We study the dynamics of small vortex clusters with few (2--4) co-rotating vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates by means of experiments, numerical computations, and theoretical analysis. All of these approaches corroborate the…

A simple model accounting for the ejection of heavy particles from the vortical structures of a turbulent flow is introduced. This model involves a space and time discretization of the dynamics and depends on only two parameters: the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremie Bec , Raphael Chetrite

The turbulent Rayleigh--Taylor system in a rotating reference frame is investigated by direct numerical simulations within the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. On the basis of theoretical arguments, supported by our simulations, we show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-16 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio

In this paper, we experimentally study the influence of large-scale Taylor rolls on the small-scale statistics and the flow organization in fully turbulent Taylor-Couette flow {for Reynolds numbers up to $\text{Re}_S=3\times 10^5$}. The…

We compute the joint distribution of relative velocities and separations of identical inertial particles suspended in randomly mixing and turbulent flows. Our results are obtained by matching asymptotic forms of the distribution. The method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-24 K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

With increasing applied current we show that the moving vortex lattice changes its structure from a triangular one to a set of parallel vortex rows in a pinning free superconductor. This effect originates from the change of the shape of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Y. Vodolazov , F. M. Peeters

We study the generation of large-scale vortices in rotating turbulent convection by means of Cartesian direct numerical simulations. We find that for sufficiently rapid rotation, cyclonic structures on a scale large in comparison to that of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Mantere , T. Hackman

Temperature and velocity oscillations have been found in a rectangular Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell, in which one large scale convection roll exists. At $Ra=8.9 \times 10^{11}$ and $Pr=4$, temperature oscillation can be observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-Qi Zhou , Chao Sun , Ke-Qing Xia

Recent studies of rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection at high rotation rates and strong thermal forcing have shown a significant discrepancy in total heat transport between experiments on a confined cylindrical domain on the one hand and…

(abridged) Vortices are believed to play a role in the formation of km-sized planetesimals. However, vortex dynamics is commonly studied in non-self-gravitating discs. The main goal here is to examine the effects of disc self-gravity on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. R. Mamatsashvili , W. K. M. Rice

Horizontally-periodic Boussinesq Rayleigh-B\'enard Convection (RBC) is a simple model system to study the formation of large-scale structures in turbulent convective flows. We performed a suite of 2D numerical simulations of RBC between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 F. Kupka , D. Fabbian , F. Zaussinger , D. Krüger , L. Gizon

We report observations of the formation and subsequent decay of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a hybrid optical-magnetic trap. Vortices are induced by rotating the anharmonic magnetic potential that provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 A. Rakonjac , A. L. Marchant , T. P. Billam , J. L. Helm , M. M. H. Yu , S. A. Gardiner , S. L. Cornish

We perform the linear stability analysis and direct numerical simulations to study the effect of radius ratio on the instability and flow characteristics of the sheared annular centrifugal Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (ACRBC), where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Jun Zhong , Junyi Li , Chao Sun

In this article, we review the research on the dynamics of quantized vortices in superfluid helium and rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. First, after briefly reviewing the earlier research and describing the current problems on quantized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Tsunehiko Araki

A study on the spatial organization and velocity fluctuations of non Brownian spherical particles settling at low Reynolds number in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell is reported. The particle volume fraction ranged from 0.005 to 0.05, while the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Boschan , B. L. Ocampo , M. Annichini , G. Gauthier

Direct numerical simulations of spanwise-rotating turbulent channel flow with a parabolic bump on the bottom wall are employed to investigate the effects of rotation on flow separation. Four rotation rates of $Ro_b := 2\Omega H/U_b = \pm…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Benjamin S. Savino , Wen Wu