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The existence of unique scaling in a crossover regime between viscous and inertial hydrodynamic regimes is revealed for homogeneous, isotropic, incompressible, spinodal turbulence which is characterized, to begin with, by three different…
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At sufficiently high Reynolds numbers, shear-flow turbulence close to a wall acquires universal properties. When length and velocity are rescaled by appropriate characteristic scales of the turbulent flow and thereby measured in \emph{inner…
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We review the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha (NS-alpha) model of incompressible fluid turbulence -- also called the viscous Camassa-Holm equations and the LANS equations in the literature. We first re-derive…
We analyse the scaling properties of the energy spectra in fully developed incompressible turbulence in forced, rotating fluids in three dimensions (3D), which are believed to be characterised by universal scaling exponents in the inertial…
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The analogue of the Kolmogorov's four-fifths law is derived for two-dimensional, homogeneous, isotropic EMHD turbulence in the energy cascade inertial range. Direct numerical simulations for the freely decaying case show that this relation…
We study solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the class $L^\infty_t C^\alpha_x$. Landau and Lifshitz [LL87] predicted that the Eulerian and Lagrangian temporal structure functions for turbulence exhibit $1/3$ and $1/2$ scaling laws,…
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Some turbulent flows self-organize into large-scale structures, rather than breaking up into ever-smaller scales. Underpinning this phenomenon is the existence of two sign-definite quantities which are conserved by the dynamics.…
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A landmark of turbulence is the emergence of universal scaling laws, such as Kolmogorov's $E(q)\sim q^{-5/3}$ scaling of the kinetic energy spectrum of inertial turbulence with the wave vector $q$. In recent years, active fluids have been…
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