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We propose the use of an unifying paradigm for the assessment and development of closed forms of the coarse-grained Navier-Stokes equations in approaches ranging from the statistical to the scale-resolving ones. It consists in the exact…
A new transient regime in the relaxation towards absolute equilibrium of the conservative and time-reversible 3-D Euler equation with high-wavenumber spectral truncation is characterized. Large-scale dissipative effects, caused by the…
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We study a model of fully developed turbulence of a compressible fluid, based on the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. In this approach, scaling properties are related to the fixed…
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We study the Lagrangian flow associated to velocity fields arising from various models of fluid mechanics subject to white-in-time, $H^s$-in-space stochastic forcing in a periodic box. We prove that in many circumstances, these flows are…
We reconsider the functional renormalization-group (FRG) approach to decaying Burgers turbulence, and extend it to decaying Navier-Stokes and Surface-Quasi-Geostrophic turbulence. The method is based on a renormalized small-time expansion,…
We introduce a family of stochastic models motivated by the study of nonequilibrium steady states of fluid equations. These models decompose the deterministic dynamics of interest into fundamental building blocks, i.e., minimal vector…
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We present an analysis of the coherent structures in Langmuir turbulence, a state of the ocean surface boundary layer driven by the interactions between water waves and wind-induced shear, via a resolvent framework. Langmuir turbulence is…
The primary emphasis of this work is the development of a finite element based space-time discretization for solving the stochastic Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes (LANS-$\alpha$) equations of incompressible fluid turbulence with…
The Lagrangian fluid description is employed to solve the initial value problem for one-dimensional, compressible fluid flows represented by the Euler-Poisson system. Exact nonlinear and time-dependent solutions are obtained, which exhibit…
We present a convergence analysis of a finite volume (FV) scheme for the multicomponent compressible Euler system in the framework of dissipative weak (DW) solutions. DW solutions were introduced as a generalized solution framework in…
A theory for the evolution of a metric $g$ driven by the equations of three-dimensional continuum mechanics is developed. This metric in turn allows for the local existence of an evolving three-dimensional Riemannian manifold immersed in…
We analyze the statistical properties of three-dimensional ($3d$) turbulence in a rotating fluid. To this end we introduce a generating functional to study the statistical properties of the velocity field $\bf v$. We obtain the master…
In 1934 J. Leray proposed a regularization of the Navier-Stokes equations whose limits were weak solutions of the NSE. Recently, a modification of the Leray model, called the Leray-alpha model, has atracted study for turbulent flow…