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The feedback forces exerted by particles suspended in a turbulent flow is shown to lead to a new scaling law for velocity fluctuations associated to a power-spectra $\propto k^{-2}$. The mechanism at play relies on a direct transfer of…

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The flux of turbulent kinetic energy from large to small spatial scales is measured in a small domain B of varying size R. The probability distribution function of the flux is obtained using a time-local version of Kolmogorov's four-fifths…

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In this paper, we present an overview of concepts and data concerning inverse cascades of excitation towards scales larger than the forcing scale in a variety of contexts, from two-dimensional fluids and wave turbulence, to geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Annick Pouquet , Raffaele Marino , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg

We investigate spectral properties of buoyancy driven bubbly flows. Using high-resolution numerical simulations and phenomenology of homogeneous turbulence, we identify the relevant energy transfer mechanisms. We find: (a) At high enough…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-24 Vikash Pandey , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Prasad Perlekar

A short, abrupt increase in energy injection rate into steady strongly-driven rotating turbulent flow is used as a probe for energy transfer in the system. The injected excessive energy is localized in time and space and its spectra differ…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Omri Shaltiel , Alon Salhov , Omri Gat , Eran Sharon

Understanding compressible turbulence is critical for modeling atmospheric, astrophysical, and engineering flows. However, compressible turbulence poses a more significant challenge than incompressible turbulence. We present a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-07 Dhananjay Singh , Harshit Tiwari , Lekha Sharma , Mahendra K. Verma

We investigate by direct numerical simulations the flow that rising bubbles cause in an originally quiescent fluid. We employ the Eulerian-Lagrangian method with two-way coupling and periodic boundary conditions. In order to be able to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-29 Irene Mazzitelli , Detlef Lohse

The phenomenon of energy cascade is addressed in the case of free-shear flows, modeled with the equations for incompressible Newtonian fluids with mixed periodic and free-slip boundary conditions driven by an imposed mean shear profile. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ricardo M. S. Rosa

The effect of rotation is considered to become important when the Rossby number is sufficiently small, as is the case in many geophysical and astrophysical flows. Here we present direct numerical simulations to study the effect of rotation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

We investigate the transfer of energy from large scales to small scales in fully developed forced three-dimensional MHD-turbulence by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations in the absence of an externally imposed uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

We investigate the nature of information flow in turbulence from an information-thermodynamic viewpoint. For the fully developed three-dimensional fluid turbulence described by the fluctuating Navier-Stokes equation, we prove that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tomohiro Tanogami , Ryo Araki

In this letter we present numerical and experimental results on the scaling properties of velocity turbulent fields in the range of scales where viscous effects are acting. A generalized version of Extended Self Similarity capable of…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , S. Ciliberto , M. V. Struglia , R. Tripiccione

The volume-filtering of the Navier-Stokes equations allows to consider the effect that particles have on the fluid without further assumptions, but closures arise of which the implications are not fully understood. In the present paper, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Max Hausmann , Victor Chéron , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

Minute amount of long chain flexible polymer dissolved in a turbulent flow can drastically change flow properties, such as reducing the drag and enhancing mixing. One fundamental riddle is how these polymer additives interact with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 Yi-Bao Zhang , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

We consider the motion of a particle governed by a weakly random Hamiltonian flow. We identify temporal and spatial scales on which the particle trajectory converges to a spatial Brownian motion. The main technical issue in the proof is to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Komorowski , L. Ryzhik

Multiphase fluid flows comprising of mesoscale solid particles, liquid droplets, or gas bubbles are common in both natural and man-made systems, but quantifying the energy transfer is challenging due to complex bubble-particle interactions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ling Qin , Kang Xiang , Iakovos Tzanakis , Dmitry Eskin , Samuel Clark , Kamel Fezzaa , Jiawei Mi

Recent studies based on simulations of the Boussinesq equations indicate that stratified turbulent flows can develop large-scale intermittency in the velocity and temperature fields, as detected in the atmosphere and oceans. In particular,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-16 Raffaello Foldes , Raffaele Marino , Silvio Sergio Cerri , Enrico Camporeale

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

We investigate the energy transfer from large waves to small ones through vertical acceleration and demonstrate that this is a much larger effect than that of the potential energy changes of the small waves moving over the larger ones.…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Clifford Chafin

In the standard cascade picture of 3D turbulent fluid flows, energy is input at a constant rate at large scales. Energy is then transferred to smaller scales by an intermittent process that has been the focus of a vast literature. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chen-Chi Chien , Daniel B. Blum , Greg A. Voth