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Turbulent flows beneath a free surface play a central role in the Earth system, yet their coupling to observable surface features remains incompletely understood. Recent studies using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) have reported strong…

In this paper we review recent developments in the statistical theory of weakly nonlinear dispersive waves, the subject known as Wave Turbulence (WT). We revise WT theory using a generalisation of the random phase approximation (RPA). This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yeontaek Choi , Yuri V. Lvov , Sergey Nazarenko

We report an experimental investigation of the effect of finite depth on the statistical properties of wave turbulence at the surface of water in the gravity-capillary range. We tune the wave dispersion and the level of nonlinearity by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-15 Roumaissa Hassaini , Nicolas Mordant

We consider Euler's equations for free surface waves traveling on a body of density stratified water in the scenario when gravity and surface tension act as restoring forces. The flow is continuously stratified, and the water layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Joachim Escher , Patrik Knopf , Christina Lienstromberg , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

The turbulent boundary layer over a Gaussian shaped bump is computed by direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The two-dimensional bump causes a series of strong pressure gradients alternating in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 Riccardo Balin , Kenneth E. Jansen

The stability of flows in layers of finite thickness $H$ is examined against small scale three dimensional (3D) perturbations and large scale two-dimensional (2D) perturbations. The former provide an indication of a forward transfer of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-04 Alexandros Alexakis

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ricardo Grande , Zaher Hani

In the present treatise, a stability analysis of the bottom boundary layer under solitary waves based on energy bounds and nonmodal theory is performed. The instability mechanism of this flow consists of a competition between streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-25 Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Geir K. Pedersen , Cameron Tropea

Traditionally resonant interactions among short waves, with large real wave-numbers, were described statistically and only a small domain in spectral space with integer wave-numbers, discrete resonances, had to be studied separately in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Kartashova

Three-dimensional turbulence is usually studied experimentally by using a spatially localized forcing at large scales (e.g. via rotating blades or oscillating grids), often in a deterministic way. Here, we report an original technique where…

Using the Lagrangian transport of momentum, the Reynolds stress can be expressed in terms of basic turbulence parameters. The Reynolds stress gradient represents the lateral transport of stream-wise momentum, balanced by the u2 transport,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-11 T. -W. Lee

The kinematic properties of unsteady highly non-linear 3D wave groups have been investigated using a numerical wave tank. Although carrier wave speeds based on zero-crossing analysis remain within +-7% of linear theory predictions, crests…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 X. Barthelemy , M. L. Banner , W. L. Peirson , F. Dias , M. Allis

Lagrangian measurements of tracer particle dispersion in stratified turbulence are presented from a large-scale experiment achieving both high buoyancy Reynolds numbers and low Froude numbers -- a regime characteristic of oceanic…

Wave turbulence in a thin elastic plate is experimentally investigated. By using a Fourier transform profilometry technique, the deformation field of the plate surface is measured simultaneously in time and space. This enables us to compute…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-29 Pablo Cobelli , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnes Maurel , Vincent Pagneux , Nicolas Mordant

We present fully kinetic simulations of driven 2D turbulence in a relativistic plasma, designed for the first time to induce a fast magnetosonic cascade. As the driving strength increases, turbulence transitions from a weak wave-dominated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Petr Ugarov , Vladimir Zhdankin , Giuseppe Arrò

We investigate the linear stability of a flat interface that separates a liquid layer from a fully-developed turbulent gas flow. In this context, linear-stability analysis involves the study of the dynamics of a small-amplitude wave on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-13 L. Ó Náraigh , P. Spelt , O. Matar , T. Zaki

To elucidate the attenuation mechanism of wall-bounded turbulence due to heavy small particles, we conduct direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent channel flow laden with finite-size solid particles. When particles cannot follow the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-16 Yutaro Motoori , Susumu Goto

Weak Wave Turbulence is a powerful theory to predict statistical observables of diverse relevant physical phenomena, such as ocean waves, magnetohydrodynamics and nonlinear optics. The theory is based upon an asymptotic closure permitted in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sergio Chibbaro , Christophe Josserand

A numerical study of stably stratified flows past spheres at Reynolds numbers $Re=200$ and $Re=300$ is reported. In these flow regimes, a neutrally stratified laminar flow induces distinctly different near-wake features. However, the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Francesco Cocetta , Mike Gillard , Joanna Szmelter , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz