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Observations of quantum turbulence in pure superfluid 4He in a rotating container are reported. New techniques of large-scale forcing (rotational oscillations of the cubic container) and detecting (monitoring ion transport along the axis of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-25 P. M. Walmsley , A. I. Golov

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 study the disordered, multi-spiral solutions of two-dimensional homogeneous oscillatory media for parameter values at which the single spiral/vortex solution is fully stable. In the framework of the complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGLE)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carolina Brito , Igor S. Aranson , Hugues Chate

Partially coherent light is abundant in many physical systems, and its propagation properties are well understood. Here we extend current theory of propagation of partially coherent light beams to the field of coherent diffusion. Based on a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 Ronen Chriki , Slava Smartsev , David Eger , Ofer Firstenberg , Nir Davidson

In the paper by Khomenko et al. [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{91}, 180504 (2015)] the authors, analyzing numerically the steady counterflowing helium in inhomogeneous channel flow, concluded that the production term $\mathcal{P}$ in the Vinen…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Sergey K. Nemirovskii

A new rotational flamelet model with inward swirling flow through a stretched vortex tube is developed for sub-grid modeling to be coupled with the resolved flow for turbulent combustion. The model has critical new features compared to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-23 William A. Sirignano

A microscopic, driven lattice gas model is proposed for the dynamics and spatio-temporal fluctuations of the precursor film observed in spreading experiments. Matter is transported both by holes and particles, and the distribution of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas B. Abraham , Rodolfo Cuerno , Esteban Moro

Optical propagation and vortices in nonlinear media have been intensively studied in modern optical physics. In this paper, we establish constraints regarding the propagation constant and provide an existence theory and numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Tianyi Zhang , Luciano Medina , Zihan Zhang

A granular gas composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks in the homogeneous cooling state is considered. Some of the particles are labeled and their number density exhibits a time-independent linear profile along a given direction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

The density fluctuations of quantum vortex lines are measured in a turbulent flow of superfluid He, at temperatures corresponding to superfluid fraction of 16%, 47% and 81%. The probe is a micro-fabricated second sound resonator that allows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Eric Woillez , Jérôme Valentin , Philippe-E Roche

Two alternative Vinen's evolution equations for the vortex line density L in counterflow superfluid turbulence, are physically admissible and lead to analogous results in steady states. In Phys. Rev. B, 69, 094513 (2004) the most used of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-26 Michele Sciacca , Maria Stella Mongiovì , David Jou

Convection and turbulence in stellar atmospheres have a significant effect on the emergent flux from late-type stars. The theoretical advancements in convection modelling over recent years have proved challenging for the observers to obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Barry Smalley

Superfluid turbulence, often referred to as quantum turbulence, is a fascinating phenomenon for which a satisfactory theoretical framework is lacking. Holographic duality provides a systematic new approach to studying quantum turbulence by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-20 Allan Adams , Paul M. Chesler , Hong Liu

Almost all studies of vortex states in helium II have been concerned with either ordered vortex lattices or disordered vortex tangles. This work studies numerically what happens in the presence of both rotation (which induces order) and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 Makoto Tsubota , Tsunehiko Araki , Carlo. F. Barenghi

We study spatially localized optical vortices created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light with a phase dislocation in a biased photorefractive crystal. In a contrast to the decay of coherent self-trapped vortex beams due to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristian Motzek , Yuri S. Kivshar , Ming-Feng Shih , Grover A. Swartzlander

When vortex rings collide head-on at high enough Reynolds numbers, they ultimately annihilate through a violent interaction which breaks down their cores into a turbulent cloud. We experimentally show that this very strong interaction,…

The understanding of turbulent flows is one of the biggest current challenges in physics, as no first-principles theory exists to explain their observed spatio-temporal intermittency. Turbulent flows may be regarded as an intricate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Juan Ignacio Polanco , Nicolás P. Müller , Giorgio Krstulovic

Local regions of anomalous particle dispersion, and intermittent events that occur in turbulent flows can greatly influence the global statistical description of the flow. These local behaviors can be identified and analyzed by comparing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-26 J. Pratt , A. Busse , W. -C. Mueller , S. C. Chapman , N. W. Watkins

We have simulated the decay of thermal counterflow quantum turbulence from a statistically steady state at T=1.9[K], with the assumption that the normal fluid is at rest during the decay. The results are consistent with the predictions of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Mineda , M. Tsubota , W. F. Vinen

We carry out an in-depth analysis of a recently introduced vortex gas model of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. Direct numerical simulations are used to provide a concrete physical interpretation of one of the model's constituent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 L. Moriconi , R. M. Pereira , V. J. Valadão