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This study traces the emergence of sheared axial flow from collisional drift wave turbulence with broken symmetry in a linear plasma device---CSDX. As the density profile steepens, the axial Reynolds stress develops and drives a radially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 R. Hong , J. C. Li , R. Hajjar , S. C. Thakur , P. H. Diamond , G. R. Tynan

The evolution of a two-phase, air and unsaturated water vapor, time decaying, shearless, turbulent layer has been studied in the presence of both stable and unstable perturbations of the normal temperature lapse rate. The top interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-13 Luca Gallana , Shahbozbek Abdunabiev , Mina Golshan , Daniela Tordella

The way in which kinetic energy is distributed over the multiplicity of inertial (intermediate) scales is a fundamental feature of turbulence. According to Kolmogorov's 1941 theory, on the basis of a dimensional analysis, the form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-21 Stefania Scarsoglio , Francesca De Santi , Daniela Tordella

The evolution of a localized vortex in stably stratified flow, within the Boussinesq approximation, is analyzed using the fluid impulse concept. The set of equations describing the temporal development of the fluid impulse has an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-14 Vladimir Levinski

We report a high-resolution numerical study of two-dimensional (2D) miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) incompressible turbulence with the Boussinesq approximation. An ensemble of 100 independent realizations were performed at small Atwood number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Quan Zhou

We present results of large-scale three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence with the piecewise parabolic method and multiple grid resolutions up to 2048^3 points. Our numerical experiments describe non-magnetized driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan , Rick Wagner

First, we consider Kolmogorov flow (a shear flow with a sinusoidal velocity profile) for 2D Navier-Stokes equation on a torus. Such flows, also called bar states, have been numerically observed as one type of metastable states in the study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Zhiwu Lin , Ming Xu

We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-18 Wandrille Ruffenach , Lucas Fery , Bérengère Dubrulle

We study a large-scale instability in a sheared nonhelical turbulence that causes generation of large-scale vorticity. Three types of the background large-scale flows are considered, i.e., the Couette and Poiseuille flows in a small-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Elperin , I. Golubev , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The integration of interpretability and generalisability in data-driven turbulence modelling remains a fundamental challenge for computational fluid dynamics applications. This study yields a generalisable advancement of the $k$-$\omega$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Mario J. Rincón , Martino Reclari , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

Turbulence is a complex system exhibiting both universal statistical features and prominent coherent structures. We model turbulence using coherent vortices distributed within a multi-scale statistical framework, termed `woven turbulence'.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Zishuo Han , Weiyu Shen , Yue Yang

Turbulence -- ubiquitous in nature and engineering alike [1-5] -- is traditionally viewed as an intrinsically inertial phenomenon, emerging only when the Reynolds number (Re), which quantifies the ratio of inertial to dissipative forces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ziyue Yu , Xinyu Si , Lei Fang

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…

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…

We present numerical simulations of laminar and turbulent channel flow of an elastoviscoplastic fluid. The non-Newtonian flow is simulated by solving the full incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the evolution equation for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-17 Marco Edoardo Rosti , Daulet Izbassarov , Outi Tammisola , Sarah Hormozi , Luca Brandt

Quantifying transport by strongly stratified turbulence in low Prandtl number ($Pr$) fluids is critically important for the development of better models for the structure and evolution of stellar and planetary interiors. Motivated by recent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-19 Kasturi Shah , Gregory P. Chini , Colm-cille P. Caulfield , Pascale Garaud

As an experimental model to mimic the flow of bio-fluids in the cell and the flow in tiny blood capillaries, we study the co-moving shear flow of dilute polymeric solutions. An inflection point shear flow profile is created by parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jimreeves David M

Well-resolved numerical simulations are used to study Rayleigh-B\'enard-Poiseuille flow over an evolving phase boundary for moderate values of P\'eclet ($Pe \in \left[0, 50\right]$) and Rayleigh ($Ra \in \left[2.15 \times 10^3,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-09 S. Toppaladoddi

We performed numerical simulations of a homogeneous swarm of bubbles rising at large Reynolds number, Re = 760 with volume fractions ranging from 1% to 10%. We consider a simplified model in which the interfaces are not resolved, but which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-06 Rémi Zamansky , Florian Le Roy de Bonneville , Frederic Risso

The stratified inclined duct (SID) flow provides a canonical model for sustained, buoyancy-driven exchange between two reservoirs of different density, and emerges as a new paradigm in geophysical fluid dynamics. Yet, the flow dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Rundong Zhou , Adrien Lefauve , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse