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We study transport in a one-dimensional lattice system with two conserved quantities -- `volume' and energy. Considering a slowly evolving local equilibrium state that is slightly deviated from an underlying global equilibrium, we estimate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 Anupam Kundu

Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

Quantum turbulence in superfluid He-4 in narrow channels often takes the form of moving localized vortex tangles. Such tangles, called turbulent plugs, also serve as building blocks of quantum turbulence in wider channels. We report on a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 A. Pomyalov

Feedback from protostellar outflows can influence the nature of turbulence in star forming regions even if they are not the primary source of velocity dispersion for all scales of molecular clouds. For the rate and power expected in star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jonathan J. Carroll , Adam Frank , Eric G Blackman

We discuss HD and MHD compressible turbulence as a cloud-forming and cloud-structuring mechanism in the ISM. Results from a numerical model of the turbulent ISM at large scales suggest that the phase-like appearance of the medium, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Thierry Passot

The relationship between anomalous superdiffusive behavior and particle trapping probability is analyzed on a rocking ratchet potential with spatially correlated weak disorder. The trapping probability density is shown, analytically and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-18 D. G. Zarlenga , G. L. Frontini , Fereydoon Family , C. M. Arizmendi

The chemistry of molecular clouds has been studied for decades, with an increasingly general and sophisticated treatment of the reactions involved. Yet the treatment of turbulent diffusion has remained extremely sketchy, assuming simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Marschalko , K. Petrovay , E. Forgacs-Dajka

General scenario of turbulence theory is proposed and applied to streaky wall-bounded turbulence. This scenario introduces a new field of transverse waves. Significance of the theory rests on a mathematical theorem associated with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Tsutomu Kambe

Context. Supersonic disordered flows accompany the formation and evolution of MCs. It has been argued that turbulence can support against gravitational collapse and form hierarchical sub-structures. Aims. We study the time evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Roxana-Adela Chira , Juan~Camilo Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Thomas Henning

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

In charged fluids obeying particle-hole symmetry, such as the Dirac fluid in graphene, charge transport is diffusive despite the presence of ballistically propagating sound waves: sound waves "hydrodynamically decouple" from the slower…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-30 Ewan McCulloch , Romain Vasseur , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Depending on the type of flow, the transition to turbulence can take one of two forms: either turbulence arises from a sequence of instabilities or from the spatial proliferation of transiently chaotic domains, a process analogous to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-06 Bowen Yang , Yi Zhuang , Gökhan Yalnız , Vasudevan Mukund , Elena Marensi , Björn Hof

We consider the transport of passive admixture in locally homogeneous isotropic reflectionally noninvariant turbulence of incompressible fluid. It is shown that anomalous convective flow appears which direction does not coincide with that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 A. V. Chechkin , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We study the statistics of density for supersonic turbulence in a medium with magnetic pressure larger than the gaseous pressure. This study is motivated by molecular cloud research. Our simulations exhibit clumpy density structures, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian , J. Cho

The power spectrum (PS) of the density field in supersonic turbulence is a fundamental quantity that characterizes the statistical properties of the structures formed in compressible flows. It is also widely used to estimate the Mach number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Pierre Dumond , Jérémy Fensch , Gilles Chabrier , Noé Brucy

The transitional regime of plane channel flow is investigated {above} the transitional point below which turbulence is not sustained, using direct numerical simulation in large domains. Statistics of laminar-turbulent spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

We study of the effect of turbulence on diffusion processes within magnetized medium. While we exemplify our treatment with heat transfer processes, our results are quite general and are applicable to different processes, e.g. diffusion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alex Lazarian

We consider a situation commonly encountered in microfluidics: two streams of miscible liquids are brought at a junction to flow side by side within a microchannel, allowing solutes to diffuse from one stream to the other and possibly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Baptiste Salmon , Armand Ajdari

Particles moving along curved trajectories will diffuse if the curvature fluctuates sufficiently in either magnitude or orientation. We consider particles moving at a constant speed with either a fixed or with a Gaussian distributed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew D. Rutenberg , Andrew J. Richardson , Claire J. Montgomery

This study reports the development and characterization of a multiple-supersonic-jet wind tunnel designed to investigate the decay of nearly homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in a compressible regime. The interaction of 36 supersonic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Takahiro Mori , Tomoaki Watanabe , Koji Nagata