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The theory of gravitational wave turbulence describes the long-term statistical behaviour of a set of weakly nonlinear interacting waves. In this paper, we aim to study aspects of gravitational turbulence within the framework of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Benoît Gay , Eugeny Babichev , Sébastien Galtier , Karim Noui

Wave turbulence is the study of the long-time statistical behaviour of equations describing a set of weakly non-linear interacting waves. Such a theory, which has a natural asymptotic closure, allows us to probe the nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Sebastien Galtier

The recent observation of gravitational waves, stimulates the question of the longtime evolution of the space-time fluctuations. Gravitational waves interact themselves through the nonlinear character of Einstein's equations of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Sergio Rica

General relativity describes the dynamics of gravitational waves, which can feature nonlinear interactions, such as those underlying turbulent processes. Theoretical and numerical explorations have demonstrated the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Holly Krynicki , Jiaxi Wu , Elias R. Most

Capillary waves are perhaps the simplest example to consider for an introduction to wave turbulence. Since the first paper by Zakharov and Filonenko (1967), capillary wave turbulence has been the subject of many studies but a didactic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sebastien Galtier

We numerically simulate, in both the forced and decay regimes, a fourth-order nonlinear diffusion equation derived from the kinetic equation of gravitational wave turbulence in the limit of strongly local quartic interactions. When a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Benoît Gay , Sébastien Galtier

We study the statistical properties of an ensemble of weak gravitational waves interacting nonlinearly in a flat space-time. We show that the resonant three-wave interactions are absent and develop a theory for four-wave interactions in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 S. Galtier , S. V. Nazarenko

In this paper we give a general account of Wave Interaction Theory which by now consists of two parts: kinetic wave turbulence theory (WTT), using a statistical description of wave interactions, and the D-model recently introduced in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-22 Elena Kartashova

The wave turbulence equation is an effective kinetic equation that describes the dynamics of wave spectrum in weakly nonlinear and dispersive media. Such a kinetic model has been derived by physicists in the sixties, though the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Toan T. Nguyen , Minh-Binh Tran

Wave kinetic theory for rapidly rotating flows is developed in this paper using a rigorous application of multiple scales perturbation theory. The governing equations are an asymptotically reduced set of equations that are derived from the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-02-21 Amrik Sen

Wave turbulence describes the long-time statistical behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems composed of weakly interacting waves. Non-Hermitian media ranging from open quantum systems to active materials can sustain wave propagation in…

We present the first direct numerical simulation of gravitational wave turbulence. General relativity equations are solved numerically in a periodic box with a diagonal metric tensor depending on two space coordinates only, $g_{ij} \equiv…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Sebastien Galtier , Sergey V. Nazarenko

Cosmic bubbles are nucleated through the quantum tunneling process. After nucleation they would expand and undergo collisions with each other. In this paper, we focus in particular on collisions of two equal-sized bubbles and compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-25 Dong-Hoon Kim , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Jongmann Yang , Dong-han Yeom

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 Sagdeev-Zaslavski (SZ) equation for wave turbulence is analytically derived, both in terms of generating function and of multi-point pdf, for weakly interacting waves with initial random phases. When also initial amplitudes are random,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-12 Sergio Chibbaro , Giovanni Dematteis , Christophe Josserand , Lamberto Rondoni

We derive a kinetic Boltzmann equation characterizing the long-term statistical behavior of the turbulent dynamics of nonlinear interacting gravitational wave multipoles in Minkowski spacetime and show that, injecting a large number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 A. Ianniccari , A. Kehagias , L. Lo Bianco , A. Riotto

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

The Weak Turbulence Theory is a statistical framework to describe a large ensemble of nonlinearly interacting waves. The archetypal example of such system is the ocean surface that is made of interacting surface gravity waves. Here we…

We present a new derivation of the kinetic equation for weak, non-hydrostatic internal gravity wave turbulence. The equation is equivalent to the one obtained by Caillol & Zeitlin (2000), but it takes a canonical form. We show that it…

Wave turbulence and eddy turbulence are the two regimes that we may encounter in nature. The attention of fluid mechanics being mainly focused on incompressible hydrodynamics, it is usually the second regime that is treated in books,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-26 Sebastien Galtier
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