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The investigation of the statistical properties of maps of line centroids has been used for almost 50 years, but there is still no general agreement on their interpretation. We try to quantify which properties of underlying turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Ossenkopf , A. Esquivel , A. Lazarian , J. Stutzki

The Doppler effect of light was implemented by interference with a reference wave to infer linear velocities in early manifestations, and more recently lateral and angular velocities with scalar phase structured light. A consequence of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Zhenyu Wan , Andrew Forbes , Jian Wang

We present non-linear solutions of Vlasov Perturbation Theory (VPT), describing gravitational clustering of collisionless dark matter with dispersion and higher cumulants induced by orbit crossing. We show that VPT can be cast into a form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Mathias Garny , Dominik Laxhuber , Roman Scoccimarro

We use an extended laser Doppler technique to track optically the velocity of individual particles in a high Reynolds number turbulent flow. The particle sizes are of the order of the Kolmogorov scale and the time resolution, 30…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Romain Volk , Nicolas Mordant , Gautier Verhille , Jean-François Pinton

A stochastic wavevector approach is formulated to accurately represent compressible turbulence subject to rapid deformations. This approach is inspired by the incompressible particle representation model of Kassinos (1995) and preserves the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 Noah Zambrano , Karthik Duraisamy

Turbulent flows consist of a wide range of interacting scales. Since the scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of the entire scale range is prohibitively expensive at high Reynolds numbers.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-24 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

The equation for temporary evolution of spectral energy of collisionless Alfven waves is derived in framework of weak turbulence theory. The main nonlinear processes for such conditions are induced scattering and two quantum absorption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. N. Zirakashvili

Compressibility effects in a turbulent transport of temperature field are investigated applying the quasi-linear approach for small P\'eclet numbers and the spectral $\tau$ approach for large P\'eclet numbers. Compressibility of a fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin

Free-space optical communication with spatial modes of light has become topical due to the possibility of dramatically increasing communication bandwidth via Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM). While both scalar and vector vortex modes have…

Motivated by previous work on kinetic energy cascades in the ocean and atmosphere, we develop a spatio-temporal spectral transfer tool that can be used to study scales of variability in generalized dynamical systems. In particular, we use…

The energy cascade rate of turbulence can be measured with the structure function. In practice, the 3D velocity of the gas in molecular cloud is hard to measure, which makes the measurement of structure function difficult. In the case of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-16 Lei Qian

We present a scheme to extract information about plumes, a prominent coherent structure in turbulent thermal convection, from simultaneous local velocity and temperature measurements. Using this scheme, we study the temperature dependence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emily S. C. Ching , H. Guo , Xiao-Dong Shang , P. Tong , Ke-Qing Xia

This two-part review summarizes interstellar turbulence and its implications. The first part begins with diagnostics and energy sources. Turbulence theory is considered in detail, including the basic fluid equations, solenoidal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bruce G. Elmegreen , John Scalo

The generation mechanism of compressible fluid turbulence at kiloparsec scales in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) is a long-lasting puzzle. In this work, we explore the nature of large-scale turbulence in the external spiral galaxy NGC~6946.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Meera Nandakumar , Prasun Dutta

The universality of interstellar turbulence is examined from observed structure functions of 27 giant molecular clouds and Monte Carlo modeling. We show that the structure functions, dv=v0 l^gamma, derived from wide field imaging of CO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Heyer , Christopher Brunt

We present a systematic analysis of the velocity structure functions (VSFs) of 167 molecular clouds with angular sizes greater than $\sim$176 arcmin$^2$ in three sectors of the Galactic mid-plane. We calculated the 1st- to 3rd-order VSFs…

We investigate the energy cascade in wall-bounded turbulence by analysing the interscale transfer between streamwise and spanwise length scales in periodic channels. This transfer originates from the nonlinear interactions in the advective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-10 Joy Chen , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral

Compressible turbulence governs energy transfer across scales in space and astrophysical systems. Capturing both the turbulence cascade and damping is therefore crucial for models of energy conversion, plasma heating, and particle transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chuanpeng Hou , Huirong Yan , Siqi Zhao , Parth Pavaskar

The cold diffuse interstellar medium must harbor pockets of hot gas to produce the large observed abundances of molecular species, the formation of which require much more energy than available in the bulk of its volume. These hot spots…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Pety , E. Falgarone

We have in earlier work (Basse N P 2005, Phys. Lett. A vol. 340 p. 456) reported on intriguing similarities between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales. In this paper we expand upon our previous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N P Basse