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We show that the classical Kolmogorov and Richardson scaling laws in fully developed turbulence are consistent with a random Gaussian force field. Numerical simulations of a shell model approximation to the Navier-Stokes equations suggest…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mogens H. Jensen , Kim Sneppen , Luiza Angheluta

Turbulent scaling phenomena are studied in an ultracold Bose gas away from thermal equilibrium. Fixed points of the dynamical evolution are characterized in terms of universal scaling exponents of correlation functions. The scaling behavior…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-20 Christian Scheppach , Jürgen Berges , Thomas Gasenzer

The main observational evidence for turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and molecular clouds is the power-law energy spectrum for velocity fluctuations, E(k) \propto k^{\alpha}. The Kolmogorov scaling exponent, \alpha=-5/3, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Kevlahan , Ralph E. Pudritz

In this paper we investigate how observational effects could possibly bias cosmological inferences from peculiar velocity measurements. Specifically, we look at how bulk flow measurements are compared with theoretical predictions. Usually…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-15 Per Andersen , Tamara M. Davis , Cullan Howlett

Light propagation in turbulent media is conventionally studied with the help of the spatio-temporal power spectra of the refractive index fluctuations. In particular, for natural water turbulence several models for the spatial power spectra…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Jinren Yao , Hantao Wang , Huajun Zhang , Jiandong Cai , Mingyuan Ren , Yu Zhang , Olga Korotkova

We present the first empirical constraints on the turbulent velocity field of the diffuse circumgalactic medium around four luminous QSOs at $z\!\approx\!0.5$--1.1. Spatially extended nebulae of $\approx\!50$--100 physical kpc in diameter…

The Galactic interstellar turbulence affects the density distribution and star formation. We introduce a new method of measuring interstellar turbulent density spectra by using the dispersion measures (DMs) of a large sample of pulsars.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Cooling flows, cluster mergers and motions of galaxies through the cluster gas with supersonic and sonic velocities must lead to large scale motions of the intracluster medium (ICM). A high-resolution numerical simulation of X-ray cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rashid A. Sunyaev , Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

Velocity fields in the cosmic web are fundamental to structure formation but remain difficult to observe directly beyond the linear regime. Here we present observational evidence that galaxy filaments connecting pairs of galaxy clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ji Yao , Huanyuan Shan , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiale Zhou , Jiaxin Han , Peng Wang

From a simple path integral involving a variable volatility in the velocity differences, we obtain velocity probability density functions with exponential tails, resembling those observed in fully developed turbulence. The model yields…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Holdom

We consider particle acceleration by large-scale incompressible turbulence with a lengthscale larger than the particle mean free path. We derive an ensemble-averaged transport equation of energetic charged particles from an extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yutaka Ohira

We evaluate numerically the velocity field distributions produced by a bounded, two-dimensional fluid model consisting of a collection of parallel ideal line vortices. We sample at many spatial points inside a rigid circular boundary. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas S. Levi , David C. Montgomery

We discuss the nature of the velocity dispersion vs. size relation for molecular clouds. In particular, we add to previous observational results showing that the velocity dispersions in molecular clouds and cores are not purely functions of…

We consider the dynamics of small tracer particles in turbulent quantum liquids. The complicated interaction processes of vortex filaments, the quantum constraints on vorticity and the varying influence of both the superfluid and the normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-27 Christian Beck , Shihan Miah

Molecular clouds (MCs) are highly structured and ``turbulent''. Colliding gas streams of atomic hydrogen have been suggested as a possible source of MCs, imprinting the filamentary structure as a consequence of dynamical and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Heitsch , A. Burkert , L. Hartmann , A. D. Slyz , J. E. G. Devriendt

The evolution of molecular clouds in galactic centres is thought to differ from that in galactic discs due to a significant influence of the external gravitational potential. We present a set of numerical simulations of molecular clouds…

Remarkably, even under negligible inertia, the addition of microstructural agents can generate chaotic flow fields. Such behavior can arise in polymer solutions, leading to elastic turbulence, or from active, self-driven particles, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Vedad Dzanic , Sumesh P. Thampi , Julia M. Yeomans

We show that hydrodynamic turbulent cloud simulations naturally produce large filaments made up of a network of smaller and coherent sub-filaments. Such simulations resemble observations of filaments and fibres in nearby molecular clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Rowan J. Smith , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen , Gary A. Fuller

This paper exposes a novel exploratory formalism, which end goal is the numerical simulation of the dynamics of a cloud of particles weakly or strongly coupled with a turbulent fluid. Giventhe large panel of expertise of the list of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Ludovic Goudenège , Adam Larat , Julie Llobell , Marc Massot , David Mercier , Olivier Thomine , Aymeric Vié

Granular flows through pipes show interesting phenomena, e.g. clogging and density waves, 1/f-noise. These things are fairly good studied by computer-experiments, but there is a lack in theoretical and analytical consideration. We introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-03 T. L. Riethmueller , D. Rosenkranz , L. Schimansky-Geier
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