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In the present work, we investigate a numerical one-dimensional solver to the Navier-Stokes equation that retains all terms, including both pressure and dissipation. Solutions to simple examples that illustrate the actions of the nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-30 Preben Buchhave , Clara Marika Velte

The energy spectrum of tearing mode turbulence in a sheared background magnetic field is studied in this work. We consider the scenario where the nonlinear interaction of overlapping large-scale modes stirs up a broad spectrum of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Di Hu , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Yi-Min Huang

In rotating stratified flows including in the atmosphere and ocean, inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) often coexist with a geostrophically balanced turbulent flow. Advection and refraction by this flow lead to wave scattering, redistributing IGW…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Miles A. C. Savva , Hossein A. Kafiabad , Jacques Vanneste

We study the statistical and dynamical behavior of turbulent Kelvin waves propagating on quantized vortices in superfluids, and address the controversy concerning the energy spectrum that is associated with these excitations. Finding the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-13 Laurent Boué , Ratul Dasgupta , Jason Laurie , Victor L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko , Itamar Procaccia

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

A novel D-model of wave turbulence is presented which allows to reproduce in a single frame various nonlinear wave phenomena such as intermittency, formation and direction of energy cascades, possible growth of nonlinearity due to direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-11 Elena Kartashova

We propose, for the first time, a two-dimensional model for the nonlinear coupling of internal gravity and thermal waves in the presence of temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity due to thermal expansion and thermal feedback in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 S. Das Adhikary , A. P. Misra

We consider two-dimensional periodic gravity water waves with constant nonzero vorticity $\gamma$, in infinite depth and with periodic boundary conditions. We prove that, if the characteristic wave number $\frac{\gamma^2}{g}$ is rational,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Beatrice Langella , Alberto Maspero , Federico Murgante , Shulamit Terracina

We consider the spectra of the 2-dim gravity waves of finite depth linearized at a uniform monotonic shear flow $U(x_2)$, $x_2 \in (-h, 0)$, where the wave numbers $k$ of the horizontal variable $x_1$ is treated as a parameter. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Xiao Liu , Chongchun Zeng

This work presents an approach for the automatic detection of locally turbulent vortices within turbulent 2D flows such as instabilites. First, given a time step of the flow, methods from Topological Data Analysis (TDA) are leveraged to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-26 Fabien Vivodtzev , Florent Nauleau , Jean-Philippe Braeunig , Julien Tierny

For the phenomenological description of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence competing models exist, e.g. Boldyrev [Phys.Rev.Lett. \textbf{96}, 115002, 2006] and Gogoberidze [Phys.Plas. \textbf{14}, 022304, 2007], which predict the same Eulerian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Angela Busse , Wolf-Christian Müller , Grigol Gogoberidze

The power spectrum analysis of spectral fluctuations in complex wave and quantum systems has emerged as a useful tool for studying their internal dynamics. In this paper, we formulate a nonperturbative theory of the power spectrum for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Roman Riser , Vladimir Al. Osipov , Eugene Kanzieper

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial systems but no complete, uncontested theory even in the simplest form, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), exists. Many theories and phenomenologies focus on the joint…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

We investigate the steepening of the magnetic fluctuation power law spectra observed in the inner solar wind for frequencies higher than 0.5 Hz. This high frequency part of the spectrum may be attributed to dispersive nonlinear processes.…

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A review of various exactly solvable models on the determination of the energy spectra $E (k) $ of 3D-velocity field, induced by chaotic vortex lines is proposed. This problem is closely related to the sacramental question whether a chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sergey K. Nemirovskii

Turbulence in rotating Magneto-hydrodynamic systems is studied theoretically and numerically. In the linear limit, when the velocity and magnetic perturbations are small, the system supports two types of waves. When the rotation effects are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas Bell , Sergey Nazarenko

In weak turbulence theory, the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra is a class of time-independent solutions to the kinetic wave equations. In this paper, we construct a new class of time-dependent isotropic solutions to the decaying turbulence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Avy Soffer , Minh-Binh Tran

The relationship between a decaying strong turbulence and kinetic instabilities in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using two-dimensional (2-D) hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field…

Cortical activity recorded through EEG and MEG reflects complex dynamics that span multiple temporal and spatial scales. Spectral analyses of these signals consistently reveal power-law behaviour, a hallmark of turbulent systems. In this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-01 Gerald Kaushallye Cooray

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