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The forward enstrophy cascade in two-dimensional quantum turbulence in a superfluid film connected to a thermal bath is investigated using a Fokker-Planck equation based on Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization. The steady-state cascade is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-08 Andrew Forrester , Han-ching Chu , Gary A. Williams

The 4/5-law of turbulence, which characterizes the energy cascade from large to small-sized eddies at high Reynolds numbers in classical fluids, is verified experimentally in a superfluid 4He wind tunnel, operated down to 1.56 K and up to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-06 Julien Salort , Benoît Chabaud , Emmanuel Lévêque , Philippe-E. Roche

Three-dimensional, compressible, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence of an isothermal, self-gravitating fluid is analyzed using two-point statistics in the asymptotic limit of large Reynolds numbers (both kinetic and magnetic). Following an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Supratik Banerjee , Alexei G. Kritsuk

A new universal theory for flow instability and turbulent transition is proposed in this study. Flow instability and turbulence transition have been challenging subjects for fluid dynamics for a century. The critical condition of turbulent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Hua-Shu Dou

The study of quantum vortices provides critical insights into non-equilibrium dynamics across diverse physical systems. While previous research has focused on point-like vortices in two dimensions and line-like vortices in three dimensions,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-17 Wei-can Yang

The dynamics of small-scale structures in free-surface turbulence is crucial to large-scale phenomena in natural and industrial environments. Here we conduct experiments on the quasi-flat free surface of a zero-mean-flow turbulent water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yinghe Qi , Yaxing Li , Filippo Coletti

Despite observational evidence for cold neutral astrophysical accretion disks, the viscous process which may drive the accretion in such systems is not yet understood. While molecular viscosity is too small to explain the observed accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Niayesh Afshordi , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Ramesh Narayan

According to Richardson's cascade description of turbulence, large vortices break up to form smaller ones, thereby transferring kinetic energy towards smaller scales. Energy dissipation occurs at the smallest scales due to viscosity. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-12 Tamás Kalmár-Nagy , Bendegúz Dezső Bak

We build on recent developments in the study of fluid turbulence [Gibbon \textit{et al.} Nonlinearity 27, 2605 (2014)] to define suitably scaled, order-$m$ moments, $D_m^{\pm}$, of $\omega^\pm= \omega \pm j$, where $\omega$ and $j$ are,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-27 J. D. Gibbon , A. Gupta , G. Krstulovic , R. Pandit , H. Politano , Y. Ponty , A. Pouquet , G. Sahoo , J. Stawarz

We report the results of an extensive set of direct numerical simulations of forced, incompressible, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a strong guide field. The aim is to resolve the controversy regarding the power law exponent (\alpha,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joanne Mason , Fausto Cattaneo , Stanislav Boldyrev

A defining feature of 3D hydrodynamic turbulence is that the rate of energy dissipation is bounded away from zero as viscosity is decreased (Reynolds number increased). This phenomenon - anomalous dissipation - is sometimes called the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Theodore D. Drivas

Turbulence, ubiquitous in nature and across various systems, exhibits chaotic and intermittent fluctuations in space and time, defying precise prediction. For nearly a century, extensive efforts have been made to uncover the underlying…

Quantum turbulence is a far-from-equilibrium process characterized by high nonlinearity. Holographic duality provides a systematic framework for simulating the decaying $(3+1)$-dimensional quantum turbulence by numerically solving the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Wei-Can Yang , Yu Tian , Makoto Tsubota

We perform energy spectrum analysis of the active turbulence in 3D bulk active nematic using continuum numerical modelling. Specifically, we calculate the spectra of two main energy contributions---kinetic energy and nematic elastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-15 Žiga Krajnik , Žiga Kos , Miha Ravnik

The hydrodynamics for a gas of hard-spheres which sometimes experience inelastic collisions resulting in the loss of a fixed, velocity-independent, amount of energy $\Delta $ is investigated with the goal of understanding the coupling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 James F. Lutsko

The fully developed turbulence with weak anisotropy is investigated by means of renormalization group approach (RG) and double expansion regularization for dimensions $d\ge 2$. Some modification of the standard minimal substraction scheme…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Hnatich , E. Jonyova , M. Jurcisin , M. Stehlik

We establish the connection between thermodynamic and dynamical instabilities in relativistic hydrodynamics with multiple flavours of conserved U(1) charges. In theories with positive hydrodynamic entropy production, where the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-24 Liam Gladden , Victor Ivo , Pavel K. Kovtun , Andrei O. Starinets

We discuss the energy and vorticity spectra of turbulent superfluid $^4$He in all the temperature range from $T=0$ up to the phase transition "$\lambda$ point", $T_\lambda\simeq 2.17\,$K. Contrary to classical developed turbulence in which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-06 Laurent Boué , Victor S. L'vov , Yotam Nagar , Sergey V. Nazarenko , Anna Pomyalov , Itamar Procaccia

Within the framework of the local-equilibrium approach, the equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties relevant to the hydrodynamics of the perfect hard-sphere crystal are obtained with molecular dynamics simulations using the Helfand…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-03 Joel Mabillard , Pierre Gaspard

Nonthermal scaling phenomena can exhibit a characteristic dependence on the dimensionality d of space. For d=3 and 4 we simulate a relativistic scalar field theory on a lattice and compute turbulent scaling exponents. We recover Kolmogorov…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 J. Berges , D. Sexty