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Because the Navier-Stokes equations are dissipative, the long-time dynamics of a flow in state space are expected to collapse onto a manifold whose dimension may be much lower than the dimension required for a resolved simulation. On this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-12 Alec J. Linot , Michael D. Graham

We present results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in magnetized, collisionless, and relativistic pair plasma. We find that fluctuations are consistent with the classical $k_\perp^{-5/3}$ magnetic energy spectrum at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Mitchell C. Begelman

We study an example of instability in presence of a multiplicative noise, namely the spontaneous generation of a magnetic field in a turbulent medium. This so-called turbulent dynamo problem remains challenging, experimentally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of subsonic (Mach number~$<1$) turbulence are crucial to our understanding of several processes including oceanic and atmospheric flows, the amplification of magnetic fields in the early universe,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-14 James Watt , Christoph Federrath , Claudius Birke , Christian Klingenberg

For velocity and magnetic fields, the turbulent pressure and, more generally, the squared fields such as the components of the turbulent stress tensor, play important roles in astrophysics. For both one and three dimensions, we derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Axel Brandenburg , Stanislav Boldyrev

We performed numerical simulations of decaying quantum turbulence by using a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, that includes a beyond mean field correction and a nonlocal interaction potential. The nonlocal potential is chosen in order…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-04 Nicolás Pablo Müller , Giorgio Krstulovic

In Kolmogorov's phenomenological theory of turbulence, the energy spectrum in the inertial range scales with the wave number $k$ as $k^{-5/3}$ and extends up to a dissipation wave number $k_\nu$, which is given in terms of the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Chuong V. Tran

Based on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission we look at magnetic field fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosheath. We apply the statistical analysis using a Fokker-Planck equation to investigate processes responsible for stochastic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Wiesław M. Macek , Dariusz Wójcik

A class of simple kinetic systems is considered, described by the 1D Vlasov-Landau equation with Poisson or Boltzmann electrostatic response and an energy source. Assuming a stochastic electric field, a solvable model is constructed for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 T. Adkins , A. A. Schekochihin

Interplay of kinematic and magnetic forcing in a model of a conducting fluid with randomly driven magnetohydrodynamic equations has been studied in space dimensions $d\ge 2$ by means of the renormalization group. A perturbative expansion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-22 M. Hnatič , J. Honkonen , M. Jurcisin

We use large-scale three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence to study the physics of a highly compressible cascade. Our numerical experiments describe non-magnetized driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Paolo Padoan , Rick Wagner , Michael L. Norman

The effects of turbulent dynamic range on scalar mixing in stably stratified turbulence are investigated by an adaptation of the theoretical passive scalar modelling arguments of Beguier et al. (1978) and demonstrated statistically using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-05 G. D. Portwood , S. M. de Bruyn Kops , C. P. Caulfield

Reduced quasilinear (QL) and nonlinear (gradient-driven) models with scale separations, commonly used to interpret experiments and to forecast turbulent transport levels in magnetised plasmas are tested against nonlinear models without…

The evolution of a turbulent tangle of quantum vortices in presence of finite-size active particles is studied by means of numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Particles are modeled as potentials depleting the superfluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic

We study the statistics of the vertical motion of inertial particles in strongly stratified turbulence. We use Kinematic Simulation (KS) and Rapid Distortion Theory (RDT) to study the mean position and the root mean square (rms) of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-28 F. C. G. A. Nicolleau , K. -S. Sung , J. C. Vassilicos

Systems of nearly parallel, slender vortex filaments in which angular momentum is conserved are an important simplification of the Navier-Stokes equations where turbulence can be studied in statistical equilibrium. We study the canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy D. Andersen , Chjan C. Lim

The model of laminated wave turbulence presented recently unites both types of turbulent wave systems - statistical wave turbulence (introduced by Kolmogorov and brought to the present form by numerous works of Zakharov and his scientific…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Kartashova , A. Kartashov

In this paper we present a unified shell model for stably stratified and convective turbulence. Numerical simulation of this model for stably stratified flow shows Bolgiano-Obukhbov scaling in which the kinetic energy spectrum varies as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) dynamos emerge in many different astrophysical situations where turbulence is present, but the interaction between large-scale (LSD) and small-scale dynamos (SSD) is not fully understood. We performed a…

The Weak Turbulence Theory has been applied to waves in thin elastic plates obeying the F\"oppl-Von K\'arm\'an dynamical equations. Subsequent experiments have shown a strong discrepancy between the theoretical predictions and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Benjamin Miquel , Alexandros Alexakis , Nicolas Mordant