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Weakly collisional space plasmas are rarely in local thermal equilibrium and often exhibit non-Maxwellian electron and ion velocity distributions that lead to the growth of microinstabilities, that is, enhanced electric and magnetic fields…

The interaction of fluids with surface-mounted obstacles in canopy flows leads to strong turbulence that dominates dispersion and mixing in the neutrally stable atmospheric surface layer. This work focuses on intermittency in the Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-01 Ron Shnapp

Turbulence -- ubiquitous in nature and engineering alike [1-5] -- is traditionally viewed as an intrinsically inertial phenomenon, emerging only when the Reynolds number (Re), which quantifies the ratio of inertial to dissipative forces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ziyue Yu , Xinyu Si , Lei Fang

Temporally periodic solutions are extracted numerically from forced box turbulence with high symmetry. Since they are unstable to small perturbations, they are not found by forward integration but can be captured by Newton-Raphson…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-03 Lennaert van Veen , Shigeo Kida , Genta Kawahara

Flow patterns of causal significance to three-dimensional isotropic turbulence are identified through the recently introduced algorithm of Jim\'enez (2018). Localised perturbations are introduced at arbitrary regions of a triple-periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-05 Miguel P. Encinar , Javier Jiménez

Using the unique capabilities of the Variable Density Turbulence Tunnel at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, G\"{o}ttingen, we report experimental result on classical grid turbulence that uncover fine, yet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-04 Michael Sinhuber , Gregory P. Bewley , Eberhard Bodenschatz

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

Numerical simulations of the 3D MHD-equations that describe rotating magnetoconvection in a Cartesian box have been performed using the code NIRVANA. The characteristics of averaged quantities like the turbulence intensity and the turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Giesecke

We present a theoretical attack on the classical problem of intermittency and anomalous scaling in turbulence. Our focus is on an ideal situation: high Reynolds number isotropic turbulence driven by steady large scale forcing. Moreover, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mogens V Melander

Intermittency of energy dissipation has long been studied via high-order moments in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, but not much where the boundary effects are explicitly included. Here, we derive two fundamental Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-11 Peng-Yu Duan , Xi Chen , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Motivated by interest in the geometry of high intensity events of turbulent flows, we examine spatial correlation functions of sets where turbulent events are particularly intense. These sets are defined using indicator functions on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-04 José Hugo Elsas , Alexander S. Szalay , Charles Meneveau

In-situ observations of magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind show a broad continuum in the power spectral density (PSD) with a power-law range of scaling often identified as an inertial range of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 A. J. Turner , S. C. Chapman , G. Gogoberidze

We re-examine the Boussinesq hypothesis of an effective turbulent viscosity within the context of simple closure considerations for models of strong magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Reynolds-stress and turbulent Maxwell-stress closure models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter T. Williams

Solar wind turbulence is often perceived as weakly compressible and the density fluctuations remain poorly understood both theoretically and observationally. Compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations provide useful insights into the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Senbei Du , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Xiangrong Fu

Magnetic turbulence is anisotropic as the directions of motion are constrained by the magnetic field. Such anisotropy can be observed in velocity centroids obtained from spectroscopic observations. We use magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-13 D. Hernández-Padilla , A. Esquivel , A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan , D. Kandel , J. Cho

Using high-resolution direct numerical simulations, the height and Reynolds number dependence of higher-order statistics of the energy dissipation rate and local enstrophy are examined in incompressible, fully-developed turbulent channel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-28 Peter E. Hamlington , Dmitry Krasnov , Thomas Boeck , Jörg Schumacher

Fundamental quantities of turbulent flows, such as the dissipation constant $C_\varepsilon$ and the intermittency factor $\mu$, are examined in relation to each other for a broader class of non-ideal turbulent flows. In the context of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 F. Schmitt , A. Fuchs , J. Peinke , M. Obligado

We study the anisotropy with respect to the local magnetic field of turbulent magnetic fluctuations at magnetofluid scales in the solar wind. Previous measurements in the fast solar wind obtained axisymmetric anisotropy, despite that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Andrea Verdini , Roland Grappin , Olga Alexandrova , Sonny Lion

It is necessary to introduce an external forcing to induce turbulence in a stably stratified fluid. The Heisenberg eddy viscosity technique should in this case suffice to calculate a space-time averaged quantity like the global anisotropy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

We present a new analysis of the anisotropic spectral energy distribution in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence permeated by a strong mean magnetic field. The turbulent flow is generated by high-resolution pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Roland Grappin , Wolf-Christian Müller