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Turbulence in superfluids depends crucially on the dissipative damping in vortex motion. This is observed in the B phase of superfluid 3He where the dynamics of quantized vortices changes radically in character as a function of temperature.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius , G. E. Volovik

This work addresses the question of the stability of stratified, spatially periodic shear flows at low P\'eclet number but high Reynolds number. This little-studied limit is motivated by astrophysical systems, where the Prandtl number is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-02 Pascale Garaud , Basile Gallet , Tobias Bischoff

A computational study of three-dimensional instability of steady flows in a helical pipe of arbitrary curvature and torsion is carried out for the first time. The problem is formulated in Germano coordinates in two equivalent but different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-29 Alexander Gelfgat

The statistics of signal increments are commonly used in order to test for possible intermittent properties in experimental or synthetic data. However, for signals with steep power spectra [i.e., $E(\omega) \sim \omega^{-n}$ with $n \geq…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-07-26 Eric Falcon , S. G. Roux , Benjamin Audit

We experimentally investigate the flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a parallel shear geometry at low Reynolds number. As the flow becomes unstable via a nonlinear subcritical instability, velocimetry measurements show non-periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-26 Boyang Qin , Paulo E. Arratia

We present an experimental investigation of intense turbulence generated by a class of low-blockage space-filling fractal square grids. We confirm the existence of a protacted production region followed by a decaying region, as first…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nicolas Mazellier , Christos Vassilicos

The instability of pipe flow has been a subject of extensive research, yet a significant gap remains between experimental observations and theoretical predictions. This study revisits the classical problem of kinetic energy instability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chiara Giraudo , Ingeborg G. Gjerde , Miroslav Kuchta , L. Ridgway Scott

Recent experimental observations (Kuehnen et al., 2018) have shown that flattening a turbulent streamwise velocity profile in pipe flow destabilises the turbulence so that the flow relaminarises. We show that a similar phenomenon exists for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-14 E. Marensi , A. P. Willis , R. R. Kerswell

The fluctuations of turbulence intensity in a pipe flow around the critical Reynolds number is difficult to study but important because they are related to turbulent-laminar transitions. We here propose a rare-event sampling method to study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-08 Takahiro Nemoto , Alexandros Alexakis

Modeling of wall-bounded turbulent flows is still an open problem in classical physics, with only modest progress made in the last few decades beyond the so-called `log law', which describes only the intermediate region in wall-bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-31 Fangying Song , George Em Karniadakis

A new scaling is derived that yields a Reynolds number independent profile for all components of the Reynolds stress in the near-wall region of wall bounded flows, including channel, pipe and boundary layer flows. The scaling demonstrates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alexander J. Smits , Marcus Hultmark , Myoungkyu Lee , Sergio Pirozzoli , Xiaohua Wu

We investigated the linear stability of pipe flow with anisotropic slip length at the wall by considering streamwise and azimuthal slip separately as the limiting cases. Our numerical analysis shows that streamwise slip renders the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-20 Kaiwen Chen , Baofang Song

We study experimentally the spatial distribution, settling, and interaction of sub-Kolmogorov inertial particles with homogeneous turbulence. Utilizing a zero-mean-flow air turbulence chamber, we drop size-selected solid particles and study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Alec J. Petersen , Lucia Baker , Filippo Coletti

The identification of stream in the straight pipe as a flexible rod has allowed to present the criterion expression for determination of transition of the laminar flow regime to the turbulent as a loss of stability of the rectilinear static…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

In this paper, we find a new large scale instability displayed by a stratified rotating flow in forced turbu- lence. The turbulence is generated by a small scale external force at low Reynolds number. The theory is built on the rigorous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-13 Anatoly Tur , Malik Chabane , Vladimir Yanovsky

We extend the analysis of [Zhou and Sornette, Physica D 165, 94-125, 2002] showing statistically significant log-periodic corrections to scaling in the moments of the energy dissipation rate in experiments at high Reynolds number ($\approx…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. -X. Zhou , D. Sornette , V. Pisarenko

This study employs three-dimensional particle-resolved simulations of planar shocks passing through a suspension of stationary solid particles to study wake-induced gas-phase velocity fluctuations, termed pseudo-turbulence. Strong coupling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Archana Sridhar , Rodney O. Fox , Jesse Capecelatro

The emergence of large-scale spatial modulations of turbulent channel flow, as the Reynolds number is decreased, is addressed numerically using the framework of linear stability analysis. Such modulations are known as the precursors of…

A study of the the main features of low- and high amplitude steady streamwise wall transpiration applied to pipe flow is presented. The effect of the two transpiration parameters, amplitude and wavenumber, on the flow have been investigated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-16 F Gómez , HM Blackburn , M Rudman , AS Sharma , BJ McKeon

We present a mixing length-based algebraic turbulence model calibrated to pipe flow; the main purpose of the model is to capture the increasing turbulence production-to-dissipation ratio observed in connection with the high Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Nils T. Basse