English
Related papers

Related papers: The Effect of Small-Scale Forcing on Large-Scale S…

200 papers

We study the 3D forced-dissipated Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We force at relatively low wave numbers, expecting to observe a direct energy cascade and a consequent power-law spectrum of the form $k^{-\alpha}$. Our numerical results show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-22 Davide Proment , Sergey Nazarenko , Miguel Onorato

We perform two high resolution direct numerical simulations of stratified turbulence for Reynolds number equal to Re~25000 and Froude number respectively of Fr~0.1 and Fr~0.03. The flows are forced at large scale and discretized on an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-04 C. Rorai , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Supersonic turbulence is vital to astrophysical and high-speed engineering flows, yet its energy transfer mechanisms remain poorly understood. We present high-resolution ($1024^3$) direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-30 Harshit Tiwari , Dhananjay Singh , Mahendra K. Verma , Rajesh Ranjan

In Navier--Stokes (NS) turbulence, large-scale turbulent flows inevitably determine small-scale flows. Previous studies using data assimilation with the three-dimensional NS equations indicate that employing observational data resolved down…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Masanobu Inubushi , Colm-cille P. Caulfield

We find strong evidence for intermittency in forced two dimensional (2D) turbulence in a flowing soap film experiment. In the forward enstrophy cascade the structure function scaling exponents are nearly indistinguishable from 3D studies.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Brent Daniel , Maarten A. Rutgers

We present results from two 1536^3 direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence where both energy and helicity are injected into the flow by an external forcing. The dual cascade of energy and helicity towards smaller scales observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the majority of natural systems, including the interstellar medium, the solar corona, and the solar wind, has Reynolds numbers far exceeding the Reynolds numbers achievable in numerical experiments.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. C. Perez , J. Mason , S. Boldyrev , F. Cattaneo

The goal of the present study is: (i) to demonstrate the two-dimensional nature of the elasto-inertial instability in elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT), (ii) to identify the role of the bi-dimensional instability in three-dimensional EIT…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-07 S. Sid , Y. Dubief , V. E. Terrapon

Based on ideas by Woodward et al., a subgrid scale model that is applicable to highly compressible turbulence is presented. Applying the subgrid scale model in large eddy simulations of forced supersonic turbulence, the bottleneck effect is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-02 Wolfram Schmidt

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

For helical isotropic turbulence, an improved two-term helical subgrid-scale (SGS) model is proposed and four types of dynamic methods are given to do large-eddy simulation (LES), which include the standard dynamic procedure, the least…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-13 changping Yu

We study the dual cascade scenario for two-dimensional turbulence driven by a spectrally localized forcing applied over a finite wavenumber range $[k_\min,k_\max]$ (with $k_\min > 0$) such that the respective energy and enstrophy injection…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chuong V. Tran , John C. Bowman

Results of numerical simulations obtained by a staggered finite difference scheme together with an efficient immersed boundary method are presented to understand the effects of the shape of three-dimensional obstacles on the transition of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-31 Paolo Orlandi , Sergio Pirozzoli , Matteo Bernardini

We analyze the data stemming from a forced incompressible hydrodynamic simulation on a grid of 2048^3 regularly spaced points, with a Taylor Reynolds number of Re~1300. The forcing is given by the Taylor-Green flow, which shares…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

The inverse cascade of magnetic helicity in 3D-MHD turbulence is believed to be one of the processes responsible for large scale magnetic structure formation in astrophysical systems. In this work we present an exhaustive set of high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Wolf-Christian Müller

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

Turbulence sustains out-of-equilibrium energy fluxes shaped by conservation laws. Three-dimensional flows conserve energy and sign-indefinite helicity, both being transferred to small scales. Yet in 3D rotating turbulence, energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sébastien Gomé , Anna Frishman

We find and investigate via numerical simulations self-sustained two-dimensional turbulence in a magnetohydrodynamic flow with a maximally simple configuration: plane, noninflectional (with a constant shear of velocity) and threaded by a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 G. R. Mamatsashvili , D. Z. Gogichaishvili , G. D. Chagelishvili , W. Horton

Stratification can cause turbulence spectra to deviate from Kolmogorov's isotropic -5/3 power-law scaling in the universal equilibrium range at high Reynolds numbers. However, a consensus has not been reached with regard to the exact shape…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-22 Yu Cheng , Qi Li , Stefania Argentini , Chadi Sayde , Pierre Gentine

Incompressible and isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in plasms can be described by an exact relation for the energy flux through the scales. This Yaglom-like scaling law has been recently observed in the solar wind above the solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Carbone , R. Marino , L. Sorriso-Valvo , A. Noullez , R. Bruno