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It is shown that the second-order moment of helicity distribution (the Levich-Tsinober invariant of inviscid hydrodynamics) can be preserved as an adiabatic invariant in magnetohydrodynamics. The distributed chaos approach and inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-24 A. Bershadskii

We characterise the scale-by-scale transfers of energy, enstrophy and helicity in homogeneous and isotropic polymeric turbulence using direct numerical simulations. The microscale Reynolds number is set to $Re_\lambda \approx 460$, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Alessandro Chiarini , Rahul K. Singh , Marco E. Rosti

We study how helicity affects the spectrum of a passive scalar in rotating turbulent flows, using numerical simulations of turbulent flows with or without rotation, and with or without injection of helicity. Scaling laws for energy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-31 Paola Rodriguez Imazio , Pablo Daniel Mininni

Halo-mediated mass and energy cascades are key to understand dark matter flow. Both cascades origin from the mass exchange between halo and out-of-halo sub-systems. Kinetic energy can be from the motion of halos and particle motion in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-24 Zhijie , Xu

Helicity is a topological invariant that measures the linkage and knottedness of lines, tubes and ribbons. As such, it has found myriads of applications in astrophysics and solar physics, in fluid dynamics, in atmospheric sciences, and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni , M. E. Brachet

Here we report the first evidence of the inverse energy cascade in a flow dominated by 3D motions. Experiments are performed in thick fluid layers where turbulence is driven electromagnetically. It is shown that if the free surface of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-26 D. Byrne , H. Xia , M. Shats

We study fluctuations of the local energy cascade rate $\Phi_\ell$ in turbulent flows at scales ($\ell$) in the inertial range. According to the Kolmogorov refined similarity hypothesis (KRSH), relevant statistical properties of $\Phi_\ell$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-29 H. Yao , P. K. Yeung , T. A. Zaki , C. Meneveau

Turbulence -- ubiquitous in nature and engineering alike [1-5] -- is traditionally viewed as an intrinsically inertial phenomenon, emerging only when the Reynolds number (Re), which quantifies the ratio of inertial to dissipative forces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ziyue Yu , Xinyu Si , Lei Fang

This paper is the forth part of our series of work, is devoted to the analysis on the multiscales and cascade aspects of the statistical theory of isotropic turbulence based on the new Sedov-type solution. In this paper, we use the explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-24 Zheng Ran

We propose an alternative formulation for the exact relations in three-dimensional homogeneous turbulence using two-point statistics. Our finding is illustrated with incompressible hydrodynamic, standard and Hall magnetohydrodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Supratik Banerjee , Sebastien Galtier

From a database of direct numerical simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, generated in periodic boxes of various sizes, we extract the spherically symmetric part of moments of velocity increments and first verify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Kartik P. Iyer , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , P. K. Yeung

Recent numerical simulations have shown the strong impact of helicity on \ADD{homogeneous} rotating hydrodynamic turbulence. The main effect can be summarized through the following law, $n+\tilde n = -4$, where $n$ and $\tilde n$ are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sebastien Galtier

We study the statistical correlation functions for the three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence onset when the dynamics is dominated by the pancake-like high-vorticity structures. With extensive numerical simulations, we systematically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-09 D. S. Agafontsev , E. A. Kuznetsov , A. A. Mailybaev

We present a phenomenological model of imbalanced MHD turbulence in an incompressible magnetofluid. The steady-state cascades, of waves traveling in opposite directions along the mean magnetic field, carry unequal energy fluxes to small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich , S. Sridhar

Results of direct numerical simulations and laboratory experiments have been used in order to show that the buoyancy driven bubbly flows at high gas volume fraction are mixed by deterministic chaos with typical exponential spectrum of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-29 A. Bershadskii

Using a recent alternative form of the Kolmogorov-Monin exact relation for fully developed hydrodynamics (HD) turbulence, the incompressible energy cascade rate $\varepsilon$ is computed. Under this current theoretical framework, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Nahuel Andrés , Supratik Banerjee

The distributed chaos driven by Levich-Tsinober (helicity) integral: $I=\int \langle h({\bf x},t)~h({\bf x}+{\bf r}, t)\rangle d{\bf r}$ has been studied. It is shown that the helical distributed chaos can be considered as basis for complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-07 A. Bershadskii

A phenomenological turbulence model in which the energy spectrum obeys a nonlinear diffusion equation is presented. This equation respects the scaling properties of the original Navier-Stokes equations and it has the Kolmogorov -5/3 cascade…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko

In three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence forced at large length scales, a constant energy flux $ \Pi_u $ flows from large scales to intermediate scales, and then to small scales. It is well known that for multiscale energy injection and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mahendra K. Verma

We investigate the effect of a dispersed bubble phase on forced homogeneous and isotropic turbulence using high-resolution high-performance simulations based on the lattice Boltzmann method. While the classical Kolmogorov energy cascade is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-29 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Aritra Mukherjee , Luca Brandt