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We study the dynamo instability for a Kazantsev-Kraichnan flow with three velocity components that depends only on two-dimensions u = (u(x, y, t), v(x, y, t), w(x, y, t)) often referred to as 2.5 dimensional (2.5D) flow. Within the…

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We set up the scaling theory for stably stratified turbulent fluids. For a system having infinite extent in the horizontal directions, but with a finite width in the vertical direction, this theory predicts that the inertial range can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 Abhik Basu , Jayanta K Bhattacharjee

With the help of a model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence tested previously, we explore high Reynolds number regimes up to equivalent resolutions of 6000^3 grid points in the absence of forcing and with no imposed uniform magnetic…

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The way in which kinetic energy is distributed over the multiplicity of inertial (intermediate) scales is a fundamental feature of turbulence. According to Kolmogorov's 1941 theory, on the basis of a dimensional analysis, the form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-21 Stefania Scarsoglio , Francesca De Santi , Daniela Tordella

We examine elastic travelling-wave (`arrowhead') solutions in a viscoelastic, unidirectionally body-forced flow, focusing on their existence and morphological changes as the Weissenberg number, $\mathrm{Wi}$, and streamwise duct length,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-22 Lu Zhu , Rich. R. Kerswell

The ubiquity of turbulent flows in nature and technology makes it of utmost importance to fundamentally understand turbulence. Kolmogorov's 1941 paradigm suggests that for strongly turbulent flows with many degrees of freedom and its large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-18 Sander G. Huisman , Roeland C. A. van der Veen , Chao Sun , Detlef Lohse

Consider a viscoelastic fluid of Oldroyd-B type. It is shown that its stress tensor $\tau$ and its Newtonian deformation tensor $D(u)$ decay at the same rate, while the elastic part $\varepsilon=\tau-2\omega D(u)$ decays faster. As a…

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In the last three decades there has been an intense activity on the exploration of turbulent phenomena of dispersive equations, as for instance the growth of Sobolev norms since the work of Bourgain in the 90s. In general the 1D cubic…

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We study numerically and theoretically the gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inner side of a horizontal cylindrical tube and surrounding a shear-free dynamically inert gaseous core. The liquid-gas interface is prone…

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We prove the existence of both local and global smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem in the whole space and the periodic problem in the n-dimensional torus for the incompressible viscoelastic system of Oldroyd-B type in the case of near…

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The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We focus on the instability of a stationary cellular pattern of…

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Viscoelastic flows transition from steady to time-dependent, chaotic dynamics under critical flow conditions, but the implications of geometric disorder for flow stability in these systems are unknown. Utilizing microfluidics, we flow a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-29 Derek M. Walkama , Nicolas Waisbord , Jeffrey S. Guasto

In many engineering and industrial applications, the investigation of rotating turbulent flow is of great interest. In rotor-stator cavities, the centrifugal and Coriolis forces have a strong influence on the turbulence by producing a…

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A slender-thread model is derived to explore the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of a filament of elasto-viscoplastic fluid. Without elasticity, a finite yield stress suppresses any linear instability for a filament of constant radius.…

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In this paper, we study nonlinear stability of the 3D plane Couette flow $(y,0,0)$ at high Reynolds number ${Re}$ in a finite channel $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1]\times \mathbb{T}$. It is well known that the plane Couette flow is linearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Qi Chen , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

We study Sobolev regularity disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. Our goal is to estimate how the stability threshold scales in…

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In this work we address the open problem of high Reynolds number limit in hydrodynamic turbulence, which we modify by considering a vanishing random (instead of deterministic) viscosity. In this formulation, a small-scale noise propagates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 A. A. Mailybaev

We analyze the pressure-driven flow of a viscoelastic fluid in arbitrarily shaped, narrow channels and present a theoretical framework for calculating the relationship between the flow rate $q$ and pressure drop $\Delta p$. We utilize the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Evgeniy Boyko , Howard A. Stone

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

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