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This work presents Direct Numerical Simulations of capillary wave turbulence solving the full 3D Navier Stokes equations of a two-phase flow. When the interface is locally forced at large scales, a statistical stationary state appears after…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-21 Luc Deike , Daniel Fuster , Michaël Berhanu , Eric Falcon

A robust energy transfer mechanism is found in nonlinear wave systems, which favours transfers towards modes interacting via non-resonant triads, applicable in meteorology, nonlinear optics and plasma wave turbulence. Transfer efficiency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-03 Miguel D. Bustamante , Brenda Quinn

Simulating nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) such as the Navier--Stokes (NS) equations remains computationally intensive, especially when implicit time integration is used to capture multiscale flow dynamics. This work…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Shaobo Yao , Zhiyu Duan , Ziteng Wang , Wenwen Zhao , Shiying Xiong

This paper presents an innovative framework for analyzing the regularity of solutions to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations by integrating Sobolev-Besov hybrid spaces with fractional operators and quantum-inspired dynamics. We propose…

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are broadly applied in engineering and physics. A standard description of fluid dynamics requires solving the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations in different flow regimes. However, applications of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shen Wang , Mehdi Nikfar , Joshua C. Agar , Yaling Liu

The thermal expansion of a fluid combined with a temperature-dependent viscosity introduces nonlinearities in the Navier-Stokes equations unrelated to the convective momentum current. The couplings generate the possibility for net fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Franz M. Weinert , Jonas A. Kraus , Thomas Franosch , Dieter Braun

Compressible turbulence governs energy transfer across scales in space and astrophysical systems. Capturing both the turbulence cascade and damping is therefore crucial for models of energy conversion, plasma heating, and particle transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chuanpeng Hou , Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao , Parth Pavaskar

We investigate numerically the model proposed in Sahoo et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 164501, (2017)] where a parameter $\lambda$ is introduced in the Navier-Stokes equations such that the weight of homochiral to heterochiral interactions is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-06 Alexandros Alexakis , Luca Biferale

At the molecular level fluid motions are, by first principles, described by time reversible laws. On the other hand, the coarse grained macroscopic evolution is suitably described by the Navier-Stokes equations, which are inherently…

The laminar-to-turbulent transition remains a fundamental and enduring challenge in fluid mechanics. Its complexity arises from the intrinsic nonlinearity and extreme sensitivity to external disturbances. This transition is critical in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Wenhui Chang , Hongyuan Hu , Youcheng Xi , Markus Kloker , Honghui Teng , Jie Ren

Classically, large-scale forced turbulence is characterized by a transfer of energy from large to small scales via nonlinear interactions. We have investigated the changes in this energy transfer process in broad-band forced turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. Kuczaj , B. J. Geurts , W. D. McComb

We present a numerical and theoretical investigation of nonlinear spectral energy cascade of decaying finite-amplitude planar acoustic waves in a single-component ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure (STP). We analyze various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Prateek Gupta , Carlo Scalo

The scale-invariant inverse energy cascade is a hallmark of 2D turbulence, with its theoretical energy spectrum observed in both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and laboratory experiments. Under this scale-invariance assumption, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Julie Meunier , Basile Gallet

During the past decade a number of attempts to formulate a continuum description of complex states of matter have been proposed to circumvent more cumbersome many-body and simulation methods. Typically these have been quantum systems (e.g.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 James Dufty , Kai Luo , Jeffrey Wrighton

We present a framework for discussing LES equations with nonlinear dispersion. In this framework, we discuss the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha model of incompressible fluid turbulence --- also called the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Domaradzki , Darryl D. Holm

Although effective non-reciprocal interactions have been investigated in a variety of fields, their consequences have not been explored in hydrodynamical turbulence. We initiate such an exploration by introducing non-reciprocal binary-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-26 Biswajit Maji , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Axel Voigt , Rahul Pandit

We develop a perturbation-based frequency-response framework for analyzing amplification mechanisms that are central to subcritical routes to transition in wall-bounded shear flows. By systematically expanding the input-output dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dušan Božić , Anubhav Dwivedi , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We derive the scale-by-scale uncertainty energy budget equation and demonstrate theoretically and computationally the presence of a self-similar equilibrium cascade of decorrelation in an inertial range of scales during the time range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-11 Jin Ge , Joran Rolland , John Christos Vassilicos

The collective motion of microswimmers in suspensions induce patterns of vortices on scales that are much larger than the characteristic size of a microswimmer, attaining a state called bacterial turbulence. Hydrodynamic turbulence acts on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-02 Moritz Linkmann , Guido Boffetta , M. Cristina Marchetti , Bruno Eckhardt

Advanced measurement techniques and high performance computing have made large data sets available for a wide range of turbulent flows that arise in engineering applications. Drawing on this abundance of data, dynamical models can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 Armin Zare , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Mihailo R. Jovanović