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We consider the modeling of the effect of unresolved scales, for two-dimensional and geophysical flows. We first show that the effect of small scales on a coarse-grained field, can be approximated at leading order, by the effect of the…

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Turbulent fluid flows exhibit a complex small-scale structure with frequently occurring extreme velocity gradients. Particles probing such swirling and straining regions respond with an intricate shape-dependent orientational dynamics,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-30 Leonhard A. Leppin , Michael Wilczek

Incompressible and isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in plasms can be described by an exact relation for the energy flux through the scales. This Yaglom-like scaling law has been recently observed in the solar wind above the solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Carbone , R. Marino , L. Sorriso-Valvo , A. Noullez , R. Bruno

We consider turbulence induced by an arbitrary forcing and derive turbulence amplitude and turbulent transport coefficients, first by using a quasi-linear theory and then by using a multi-scale renormalisation analysis. With an isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

The verification of whether small-scale turbulence is isotropic remains a grand challenge. The difficulty arises because the presence of small-scale anisotropy is tied to the dissipation tensor, whose components require the full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-03 Subharthi Chowdhuri , Tirtha Banerjee

The stable boundary layer (SBL) subjected to large-scale subsidence is studied through large-eddy simulations (LESs) with fixed surface temperature and a linear subsidence velocity profile. These boundary layers reach a truly steady state,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-18 Thijs Bon , Raúl Bayoán Cal , Johan Meyers

Scaling laws and intermittency in the wall region of a turbulent flow are addressed by analyzing moderate Reynolds number data obtained by single component hot wire anemometry in the boundary layer of a flat plate. The paper aims in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Jacob , A. Olivieri , C. M. Casciola

The rotational dynamics of anisotropic particles advected in a turbulent fluid flow are important in many industrial and natural setting. Particle rotations are controlled by small scale properties of turbulence that are nearly universal,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Shima Parsa , Enrico Calzavarini , Federico Toschi , Greg A. Voth

This paper introduces a novel mathematical framework for examining the regularity and energy dissipation properties of solutions to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations. By integrating Sobolev-Besov hybrid spaces, fractional differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

In this study we give a characterization of semi-geostrophic turbulence by performing freely decaying simulations for the case of constant uniform potential vorticity, a set of equations known as surface semi-geostrophic approximation. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Francesco Ragone , Gualtiero Badin

It is proposed that critical balance - a scale-by-scale balance between the linear propagation and nonlinear interaction time scales - can be used as a universal scaling conjecture for determining the spectra of strong turbulence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-26 S. V. Nazarenko , A. A. Schekochihin

We present a model for the scaling of mixing in weakly rotating stratified flows characterized by their Rossby, Froude and Reynolds numbers Ro, Fr, Re. It is based on quasi-equipartition between kinetic and potential modes, sub-dominant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-11 A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg , R. Marino , C. Herbert

Anisotropic flow coefficients and their fluctuations are investigated for Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by using a multi-phase transport model with string melting scenario. Experimental results of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ma , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

We generalize the `filtering spectrum' [1] to probe scales along different directions by spatial coarse-graining. This multi-dimensional filtering spectrum quantifies the spectral content of flows that are not necessarily homogeneous. From…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

Currents of particles or energy in driven nonequilibrium steady states are known to satisfy certain symmetries, referred to as fluctuation relations, determining the ratio of the probabilities of positive fluctuations to negative ones. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-27 Rodrigo Villavicencio-Sanchez , Rosemary J. Harris , Hugo Touchette

Based on a generalized local Kolmogorov-Hill equation expressing the evolution of kinetic energy integrated over spheres of size $\ell$ in the inertial range of fluid turbulence, we examine a possible definition of entropy and entropy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-22 H. Yao , T. A. Zaki , C. Meneveau

Regimes of interactions between motions on different time-scales are investigated in the FLOSSII dataset for nocturnal near-surface stable boundary layer (SBL) turbulence. The non-stationary response of turbulent vertical velocity variance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Nikki Vercauteren , Vyacheslav Boyko , Davide Faranda , Ivana Stiperski

To improve models of the structure and evolution of stellar and planetary interiors, it is important to quantify transport by strongly stratified turbulence in low Prandtl number fluids. Recent numerical studies have shown evidence for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-24 Kasturi Shah

Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made over the Arctic pack ice during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) are used to determine the limits of applicability of Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (in the local…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Andrey A. Grachev , Edgar L Andreas , Christopher W. Fairall , Peter S. Guest , P. Ola G. Persson