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This study investigates how the deposit body influences friction characteristics by altering local flow fields, which is closely related to bed shear stress. Using generalized flume experiments, the study assesses the applicability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jing Zhang , Ruihan Qin , Zhixue Guo , Huantao Xu , Jiahui Zhou , Yun Bai

Symmetric instability (SI) is a frontal instability arising from the interaction of rotation with lateral and vertical shear of a frontal jet and is a generalization of shear, centrifugal, and gravitational instabilities. While the onset of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Laur Ferris , Donglai Gong

The essence of shear instability is fully revealed both mathematically and physically. A general sufficient and necessary stable criterion is obtained analytically within linear context. It is the analogue of Kelvin-Arnol'd theorem, i.e.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-04-15 Liang Sun

Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is a measure for unsteady loads and important regarding the design of e.g. propellers or energy-saving devices. While simulations are often done for a double-body, using a symmetry condition, experiments and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 Luise Draheim , Nikolai Kornev

We use local numerical simulations to investigate the strength and nature of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks, where ambipolar diffusion is the dominant non-ideal MHD effect. The simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone , Philip J. Armitage , Kris Beckwith

The effects of velocity shear on the unstable modes driven by the effective gravity (Rayleigh-Taylor and interchange) and resistive drift wave instabilities for inhomogeneous equilibrium fluid/plasma density are analyzed for the localized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yanzeng Zhang , S. I. Krasheninnikov , A. I. Smolyakov

The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and level of turbulence in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are crucial for understanding many aspects of planet formation. In the recent years, it has been realized that the magneto-rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

We show that a simple, modified version of the Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) can develop in the outer liquid core of the Earth, in the presence of a background shear. It requires either thermal wind, or a primary instability, such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ludovic Petitdemange , Emmanuel Dormy , Steven A. Balbus

We investigate strongly nonlinear stationary gravity waves which experience refraction due to a thin vertical shear layer of horizontal background wind. The velocity amplitude of the waves is of the same order of magnitude as the background…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mark Schlutow , Georg S. Völker

To explain Venus' young surface age and lack of plate tectonics, Venus' tectonic regime has often been proposed to be either an episodic-lid regime with global lithospheric overturns, or an equilibrium resurfacing regime with numerous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jiacheng Tian , Paul J. Tackley , Diogo L. Lourenço

Motivated by the redrawing of hot glass into thin sheets, we investigate the shape and stability of a thin viscous sheet that is inhomogeneously stretched in an imposed non-uniform temperature field. We first determine the associated base…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-28 Siddarth Srinivasan , Zhiyan Wei , L. Mahadevan

The Pomeranchuk instability, in which an isotropic Fermi surface distorts and becomes anisotropic due to strong interactions, is a possible mechanism for the growing number of experimental systems which display transport properties that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Mohammad Edalati , Ka Wai Lo , Philip W. Phillips

An optimisation scheme is developed to accurately represent the sub-grid scale forcing of a high dimensional chaotic ocean system. Using a simple parameterisation scheme, the velocity components of a 30km resolution shallow water ocean…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fenwick C. Cooper , Laure Zanna

Turbulence is a dominant feature operating in gaseous flows across nearly all scales in astrophysical environments. Accordingly, accurately estimating the statistical properties of such flows is necessary for developing a comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 Lukas Konstandin , Rahul Shetty , Philipp Girichidis , Ralf S. Klessen

Geostatistical seismic inversion is commonly used to infer the spatial distribution of the subsurface petro-elastic properties by perturbing the model parameter space through iterative stochastic sequential simulations/co-simulations. The…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-19 Leonardo Azevedo , Vasily Demyanov

We present a new physically-motivated parameterization, based on the ratio of Thorpe and Ozmidov scales, for the irreversible turbulent flux coefficient $\Gamma_{\mathcal M}= {\mathcal M}/\epsilon$, i.e. the ratio of the irreversible rate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-12 A. Mashayek1 , C. P. Caulfield2 , 3 , M. H. Alford

In this paper, we study the effects of modification of gravity on the problem of dynamical instability of the spherical relativistic anisotropic interiors. We have considered non-zero influence of expansion scalar throughout during the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-17 Z. Yousaf , Kazuharu Bamba , M. Z. Bhatti , U. Farwa

We study the generation, nonlinear development and secondary instability of unsteady G\"ortler vortices and streaks in compressible boundary layers exposed to free-stream vortical disturbances and evolving over concave, flat and convex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-11 Dongdong Xu , Pierre Ricco , Elena Marensi

The predictability of the atmosphere at short and long time scales, associated with the coupling to the ocean, is explored in a new version of the Modular Arbitrary-Order Ocean-Atmosphere Model (MAOOAM), based on a 2-layer quasi-geostrophic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Stéphane Vannitsem , Roman Solé-Pomies , Lesley De Cruz

Kinetic energy (KE) cascade in the turbulent ocean is pivotal in connecting diverse scales of oceanic motions, redistributing energy, and influencing ocean circulation and climate variability. However, its response to global warming remains…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Qianqian Geng , Ru Chen , Bo Qiu , Zhao Jing , Xin Su , Gang Huang , Qinyu Liu , Yang Chen