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Turbulent diffuse molecular clouds can exhibit complicated morphologies caused by the interactions among radiation, chemistry, fluids, and fields. We performed full 3D simulations for turbulent diffuse molecular interstellar media,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Nannan Yue , Lile Wang , Thomas Bisbas , Donghui Quan , Di Li

Turbulence is ubiquitous in plasmas, leading to rich dynamics characterized by irregularity, irreversibility, energy fluctuations across many scales, and energy transfer across many scales. Another fundamental and generic feature of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

The energy spectrum of superfluid turbulence is studied numerically by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We introduce the dissipation term which works only in the scale smaller than the healing length, to remove short wavelength…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kobayashi , M. Tsubota

Theory of laminated turbulnece includes continuous layer of turbulence (statistical description, kinetic equations, Zakharov-Kolmogorov spectra, etc) AND discrete layer of turbulence (isolated groups of interacting waves, no…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Kartashova

Turbulence in a system of nonlinearly interacting waves is referred to as wave turbulence. It has been known since seminal work by Kolmogorov, that turbulent dynamics is controlled by a directional energy flux through the wavelength scales.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-07 L. V. Abdurakhimov , I. A. Remizov , A. A. Levchenko , G. V. Kolmakov , Y. V. Lvov

Bose-Einstein condensates with their superfluidity property provide an interesting parallel to classical fluids. Due to the Kolmogorov spectrum of homogeneous turbulence the statistics of the incompressible velocity field is of great…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-16 Marcos A. G. dos Santos Filho , Francisco E. A. dos Santos

An overview is presented of the main properties of the interstellar medium. Evidence is summarized that the interstellar medium is highly turbulent, driven on different length scales by various energetic processes. Large-scale turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Burkert

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

The present work proposes a theory of isotropic and homogeneous turbulence for incompressible fluids, which assumes that the turbulence is due to the bifurcations associated to the velocity field. The theory is formulated using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-12 Nicola de Divitiis

We sample a velocity field that has an inertial spectrum and a skewness that matches experimental data. In particular, we compute a self-consistent correction to the Kolmogorov exponent and find that for our model it is zero. We find that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Alex Arenas , Alexandre Chorin

Turbulent fluid dynamics typically involves excitations on many different length scales. Classical incompressible fluids can be cleanly represented in Fourier space enabling spectral analysis of energy cascades and other turbulence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-02 Ashton S. Bradley , R. Kishor Kumar , Sukla Pal , Xiaoquan Yu

In this contribution, I give an overview of the various approaches toward the numerical modelling of turbulence, particularly, in the interstellar medium. The discussion is placed in a physical context, i. e. computational problems are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-07 W. Schmidt

This paper presents a new theory of turbulent mixing in stirred reactors. The degree of homogeneity of a mixed fluid may be characterized by the Kolmogorov micro-scale. The smaller its value, the better homogeneity. The micro-scale scales…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-26 Helmut Z. Baumert , Bernhard Wessling

Some important concepts in the nonstandard analysis theory of turbulence are presented in this article. The structure of point, on which differential equations are defined, is analyzed. The distinction between the uniform point and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Wu

Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 Tim Whittaker , Romuald A. Janik , Yaron Oz

Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass from the surrounding cloud material. Molecular cloud regions without turbulent driving sources, or where turbulence is driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ralf Klessen

This article begins with an overview, then gives the precise definition of isotropic turbulence, and follows that with the basic conservation equations, in both real space and wavenumber space. These provide the foundations of all…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 David McComb

Modeling the structure of molecular clouds depends on good methods to statistically compare simulations with observations in order to constrain the models. Here we characterize a suite of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Volker Ossenkopf

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

We apply recent advances in quantum gravity to the problem of turbulence. Adopting the AdS/CFT approach we propose a string theory of turbulence that explains the Kolmogorov scaling in 3+1 dimensions and the Kraichnan and Kolmogorov…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Vishnu Jejjala , Djordje Minic , Y. Jack Ng , Chia-Hsiung Tze