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Turbulent properties of the quiet Sun represent the basic state of surface conditions, and a background for various processes of solar activity. Therefore understanding of properties and dynamics of this `basic' state is important for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 I. N. Kitiashvili , V. I. Abramenko , P. R. Goode , A. G. Kosovichev , S. K. Lele , N. N. Mansour , A. A. Wray , V. B. Yurchyshyn

Meso-scale turbulence was originally observed experimentally in various suspensions of swimming bacteria, as well as in the collective motion of active colloids. The corresponding large-scale dynamical patterns were reproduced in a simple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Vasco M. Worlitzer , Gil Ariel , Avraham Be'er , Holger Stark , Markus Bär , Sebastian Heidenreich

Growing evidence is found in observations and numerical modelling of the importance of steep seafloor topography for turbulent diapycnal mixing leading to redistribution of suspended matter and nutrients, especially in waters with abundant…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Hans van Haren

A recent paper by Stanimirovic etal (2008) presents quit interesting results from HI observations of the Magellanic Stream (MS) tip. The high spatial resolution of the data reveals rich and complex morphological and kinematic structures;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-29 Itzhak Goldman

We investigate turbulence in dilute polymer solutions when polymers are strongly stretched by the flow. We establish power-law spectrum of velocity, which is not associated with a flux of a conserved quantity, in two cases. The first case…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Fouxon , V. Lebedev

A combination of methods originating from non-stationary timeseries analysis is applied to two datasets of near surface turbulence in order to gain insights on the non-stationary enhancement mechanism of intermittent turbulence in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nikki Vercauteren , Vyacheslav Boyko , Amandine Kaiser , Danijel Belušić

The transport of heavy, neutral or charged, point-like particles by incompressible, resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is investigated by means of high-resolution numerical simulations. The spatial distribution of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Homann , J. Bec , H. Fichtner , R. Grauer

Fluid turbulence is commonly associated with stronger drag, greater heat transfer, and more efficient mixing than in laminar flows. In many natural and industrial settings, turbulent liquid flows contain suspensions of dispersed bubbles and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-29 Varghese Mathai , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

The spatial organization of a passive scalar plume originating from a point source in a turbulent boundary layer is studied to understand its meandering characteristics. We focus shortly downstream of the isokinetic injection ($1.5\le…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 Isaiah E. Wall , Gokul Pathikonda

A theory of non-homogeneous turbulence is developed and is applied to boundary-free shear flows. The theory introduces assumptions of inner and outer similarity for the non-homogeneity of two-point statistics and predicts power law scalings…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jiangang Chen , John Christos Vassilicos

Turbulence is a prevalent phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas, often characterized by stochastic fluctuations. While laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have revealed chaotic behavior, in-situ observations of…

The flow shear associated with the differential toroidal rotation of tokamak plasmas breaks an underlying symmetry of the turbulent fluctuations imposed by the up-down symmetry of the magnetic equilibrium. Using experimental…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. F. J. Fox , F. van Wyk , A. R. Field , Y. -c. Ghim , F. I. Parra , A. A. Schekochihin

A statistically stationary turbulence with a mean shear gradient is realized in a flow driven by suitable body forces. The flow domain is periodic in downstream and spanwise directions and bounded by stress free surfaces in the normal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joerg Schumacher , Bruno Eckhardt

The dynamics of the ocean mixed layer is of central importance in determining the fluxes of momentum, heat, gases, and particulates between the ocean and the atmosphere. A prominent component of mixed layer dynamics is the appearance of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

We investigate wind tunnel turbulence generated by both conventional and multi-scale grids. Measurements were made in a tunnel which has a large test-section, so that possible side wall effects are very small and the length assures that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-24 Per-Åge Krogstad , Peter Davidson

A comparison of turbulent diffusion and pair-dispersion in homogeneous, macroscopically isotropic Navier-Stokes (NS) and nonhelical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence based on high-resolution direct numerical simulations is presented.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolf-Christian Müller , Angela Busse

Scaling laws and intermittency in the wall region of a turbulent flow are addressed by analyzing moderate Reynolds number data obtained by single component hot wire anemometry in the boundary layer of a flat plate. The paper aims in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Jacob , A. Olivieri , C. M. Casciola

We use interface-resolved simulations to study finite-size effects in turbulent channel flow of neutrally-buoyant spheres. Two cases with particle sizes differing by a factor of 2, at the same solid volume fraction of 20% and bulk Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-23 Pedro Costa , Francesco Picano , Luca Brandt , Wim-Paul Breugem

This paper presents results of a theoretical investigation of transport in a numerical model of a two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow. We investigate the changes in its mixing properties associated with transition from laminar regime to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-13 Radford Mitchell , Roman O. Grigoriev

Active fluids exhibit chaotic flows at low Reynolds number known as active turbulence. Whereas the statistical properties of the chaotic flows are increasingly well understood, the nature of the transition from laminar to turbulent flows as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-08 Malcolm Hillebrand , Ricard Alert