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Turbulence plays a key role in star formation in molecular clouds, affecting star cluster primordial properties. As modelling present-day objects hinges on our understanding of their initial conditions, better constraints on turbulence can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Piero Trevisan , Mario Pasquato , Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli

A new combined sub-filter scale turbulence and shock-capturing model is developed for high-order finite volume numerics, extending previous work to unstructured solvers. Block Spectral Stresses (BSS) method relies on the spectra of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Matteo Ruggeri , Victor C. B. Sousa , Carlo Scalo

Turbulence influences the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds, and plays a key role in regulating star formation. We therefore need methods to accurately infer turbulence properties of molecular clouds from position-position-velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Jayashree Narayan , Aris Tritsis , Christoph Federrath

We use $^{12}$CO (J=1-0) MWISP data to study turbulence in a segment of the Local Arm. Velocity slices at different kinematic distances show similar spatial power spectra (SPSs) and structure functions (SFs), demonstrating that the entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-18 Yuehui Ma , Miaomiao Zhang , Hongchi Wang , Xuepeng Chen , Zhenyi Yue , Suziye He , Xiangyu Ou , Li Sun

Intercluster medium is expected to be turbulent with turbulence being superAlfvenic at large scales. Magnetic fields substantially modify the turbulent cascade when the turbulence reaches the scales at which the fluctuation velocity gets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian

We investigate the power spectrum of velocity fluctuations in the universe, $V^2(k)$, starting from four different measures of velocity: (1) the power spectrum of velocity fluctuations from peculiar velocities of galaxies; (2) the rms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Gramann

Based on the theoretical description of Position-Position-Velocity(PPV) statistics in Lazarian & Pogosyan(2000), we introduce a new technique called the Velocity Decomposition Algorithm(VDA) in separating the PPV fluctuations arising from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Ka Ho Yuen , Ka Wai Ho , Alex Lazarian

This review summarizes the coherent structures (CS) based on two-point correlations and their applications, with a focus on the interpretation of statistic CS and their characteristics. We review studies on this topic, which have attracted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-05 Jun Chen

Theoretical considerations are made of superfluid turbulence in the Kelvin wave cascade regime at low temperatures (T < 1K) and length scales of the order or smaller than the intervortical distance. The energy spectrum is shown to be in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

Velocity statistics is a direct probe of the dynamics of interstellar turbulence. Its observational measurements are very challenging due to the convolution between density and velocity and projection effects. We introduce the projected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Siyao Xu

In this paper, we show that in the presence of large-scale circulation (LSC), Taylor's hypothesis can be invoked to deduce the energy spectrum in thermal convection using real space probes, a popular experimental tool. We perform numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

The Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) contains clouds which consist of partially-ionized plasma. These clouds can be effectively diagnosed via high resolution optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of the absorption lines they form in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

Plumes in a convective flow are considered to be relevant to the turbulent transport in convection. The effective mass, momentum, and heat transports in the convective turbulence are investigated in the framework of time--space double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki

By taking advantage of laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV), we explore the existence of discrete wave cascades on fluid interfaces excited upon monochromatic excitation. We study viscous liquids of variable capillarity spanning a broad range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-14 M. Kharbedia , F. Monroy

Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 P. Clark di Leoni , P. J. Cobelli , P. D. Mininni

The solar photosphere provides us with a laboratory for understanding turbulence in a layer where the fundamental processes of transport vary rapidly and a strongly superadiabatic region lies very closely to a subadiabatic layer. Our tools…

This paper employs an input-output based approach to analyze convective velocities and the transport of fluctuations in turbulent channel flows. The convective velocity for a fluctuating quantity associated with streamwise-spanwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 Chang Liu , Dennice F. Gayme

The phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion in temperature-stratified turbulence causing a non-diffusive turbulent flux of inertial and non-inertial particles in the direction of the turbulent heat flux is found using direct numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 N. E. L. Haugen , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , A. Brandenburg

This study explores experimentally the turbulent flow in a laboratory flume, interacting with waves propagated against the flow. It focuses a region of wave-blocking for which there is a streamwise location on the water surface, where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-18 Debasmita Chatterjee , B. S. Mazumder , Subir Ghosh

By using direct numerical simulations (DNS) at unprecedented resolution we study turbulence under rotation in the presence of simultaneous direct and inverse cascades. The accumulation of energy at large scale leads to the formation of…