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The very small scales of isotropic, Navier-Stokes turbulence at Reynolds number ${\cal R}_\lambda \approx 15$ are studied by high-resolution direct numerical simulation (DNS) and by integration of the direct-interaction (DIA) equations. The…

Energy dynamics calculations in a 3D fluid simulation of drift wave turbulence in the linear Large Plasma Device (LAPD) [W. Gekelman et al., Rev. Sci. Inst. 62, 2875 (1991)] illuminate processes that drive and dissipate the turbulence.…

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Mathematical estimates for the Navier-Stokes equations are traditionally expressed in terms of the Grashof number, which is a dimensionless measure of the magnitude of the forcing and hence a control parameter of the system. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Ritwik Mukherjee , John D. Gibbon , Dario Vincenzi

The atmosphere is a nonlinear stratified fluid in which internal gravity waves are present. These waves interact with the flow, resulting in wave turbulence that displays important differences with the turbulence observed in isotropic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni

Turbulent drag reduction through streamwise travelling waves of spanwise wall oscillation is investigated over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. Here, in Part 1, wall-resolved large-eddy simulations in a channel flow are conducted to…

Frequently encountered in nature, internal solitary waves in stratified fluids are well-observed and well-studied from the experimental, the theoretical, and the numerical perspective. From the mathematical point of view, these waves are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Andreas Klaiber

This is the second part of our work initiating the rigorous study of wave turbulence for water waves equations. We combine energy estimates, normal forms, and probabilistic and combinatorial arguments to complete the construction of…

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We present numerical simulation of 2D turbulent flow using a new model for the subgrid scales which are computed using a dynamic equation linking the subgrid scales with the resolved velocity. This equation is not postulated, but derived…

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Wind farms, particularly offshore clusters, are becoming larger than ever before. Besides influencing wind farms and local meteorology downstream, large wind farms can trigger atmospheric gravity waves in the inversion layer and the free…

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Direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous turbulence under rapid rigid rotation are conducted to examine the predictions of resonant wave theory for both small Rossby number and large Reynolds number. The simulation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Q. Chen , S. Chen , G. L. Eyink , D. D. Holm

The purpose of this article is numerical verification of the theory of weak turbulence. We performed numerical simulation of an ensemble of nonlinearly interacting free gravity waves (swell) by two different methods: solution of primordial…

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We study the long-time evolution of gravity waves on deep water exited by the stochastic external force concentrated in moderately small wave numbers. We numerically implement the primitive Euler equations for the potential flow of an ideal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Dyachenko , A. O. Korotkevich , V. E. Zakharov

The evolution of surface gravity waves is driven by nonlinear interactions that trigger an energy cascade similarly to the one observed in hydrodynamic turbulence. This process, known as wave turbulence, has been found to display anomalous…

We present a direct numerical simulation (DNS) study of buoyancy driven bubbly flows in two-dimensions. We employ volume of fluid (VOF) method to track the bubble interface. To investigate spectral properties of the flow, we derive the…

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The perspective of statistical state dynamics (SSD) has recently been applied to the study of mechanisms underlying turbulence in various physical systems. An example implementation of SSD is the second order closure referred to as…

Direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of turbulent pipe flow subjected to streamwise-varying wall rotation are performed. This control method is able to achieve drag reduction and even relaminarize the flow under certain control parameters at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Xu Liu , Hongbo Zhu , Yan Bao , Dai Zhou , Zhaolong Han

We demonstrate the existence of interface-induced turbulence, an emergent nonequilibrium statistically steady state (NESS) with spatiotemporal chaos, which is induced by interfacial fluctuations in low-Reynolds-number binary-fluid mixtures.…

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Pore-resolved direct numerical simulations (DNS) are performed to investigate the interactions between streamflow turbulence and groundwater flow through a randomly packed porous sediment bed for three permeability Reynolds numbers, $Re_K$,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Shashank K. Karra , Sourabh V. Apte , Xiaoliang He , Timothy Scheibe

When a turbulent Bose-Einstein condensate is driven out-of-equilibrium at a scale much smaller than the system size, nonlinear wave interactions transfer particles towards large scales in an inverse cascade process. In this work, we study…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Ying Zhu , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

This experimental and numerical study examines transition to turbulence for a Cone-Cylinder-Flare geometry at Mach 7 and across a broad Reynolds number range. The focus is set on both attached boundary layers and separated shock-boundary…

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