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Vortex filaments are highly rotating localized structures of fluids that admits several types of excitation. Here, we study them by using numerical simulations of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We first…

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A new dispersion equation is obtained for a non-equilibrium medium with an exponential relaxation model of a vibrationally excited gas. We have researched the dependencies of the pump source and the heat removal on the medium thermodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-10 S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Khoperskov

We study a turbulence closure model in which the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ of the velocity field represents the turbulence diffusivity. We investigate the energy spectrum of the model by applying Pao's energy transfer theory.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Feifei Xu

In this paper we investigate spectral stability of traveling wave solutions to 1-$D$ quantum hydrodynamics system with nonlinear viscosity in the $(\rho,u)$, that is, density and velocity, variables. We derive a sufficient condition for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Corrado Lattanzio , Delyan Zhelyazov

We investigate the energy transfer from the mean profile to velocity fluctuations in channel flow by calculating nonlinear optimal disturbances,i.e. the initial condition of a given finite energy that achieves the highest possible energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-25 Dario Klingenberg , Rich R. Kerswell

Numerical simulations have revealed a new type of turbulence of unidirectional waves in a plasma that is perpendicularly structured (Magyar et al. 2017), named uniturbulence. For this new type of turbulence, the transverse structuring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Tom Van Doorsselaere , Bo Li , Marcel Goossens , Bogdan Hnat , Norbert Magyar

We present a method for studying the evolution of plasma turbulence by tracking dispersion relations in the energy spectrum in the wavenumber-frequency domain. We apply hybrid plasma simulations in a simplified two-dimensional geometry to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 H. Comişel , D. Verscharen , Y. Narita , U. Motschmann

To model isotropic homogeneous quantum turbulence in superfluid helium, we have performed Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of two fluids (the normal fluid and the superfluid) coupled by mutual friction. We have found evidence of strong…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Philippe-Emmanuel P. -E. Roche , Carlo F. Barenghi , Emmanuel Lévêque

Practical results gained from statistical theories of turbulence usually appear in the form of an inertial range energy spectrum $\mathcal{E}(k)\sim k^{-q}$ and a cut-off wave-number $k_{c}$. For example, the values $q=5/3$ and $\ell…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-28 John D. Gibbon , Dario Vincenzi

The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in experiments on a vibrating plate. The…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-07 Arezki Boudaoud , Olivier Cadot , Benoît Odille , Cyril Touzé

The existence of only a few bubbles could drastically reduce the acoustic wave speed in a liquid. Wood's equation models the linear sound speed, while the speed of an ideal shock waves is derived as a function of the pressure ratio across…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-22 Siew-Wan Ohl , Juan Manuel Rossello , Daniel Fuster , Claus-Dieter Ohl

We study the energy transfer properties of three dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence where the non-linear transfer is altered in a way that helicity is made sign-definite, say positive. In this framework, known as homochiral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-01 Antoine Briard , Luca Biferale , Thomas Gomez

Large-scale simulations of the wave equation in electromagnetism, seismology, and acoustics, can be solved efficiently by finite difference methods. The accuracy of these numerical solutions usually depends on the minimization of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Gianmarco Pinton

We present a simplified model for linearized perturbations in a fluid with both differential rotation and differential vorticity. Without the latter the model reduces to the classical Shearing Sheet used in the description of spiral density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michel Tagger

We consider a class of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations which are Hamiltonian and are perturbations of linear dispersive equations. The unperturbed dynamical system has a bound state, a spatially localized and time periodic solution. We…

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We present a numerical and theoretical investigation of nonlinear spectral energy cascade of decaying finite-amplitude planar acoustic waves in a single-component ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure (STP). We analyze various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Prateek Gupta , Carlo Scalo

We study numerically nonuniform quantum turbulence of coflow in a square channel by the vortex filament model. Coflow means that superfluid velocity $\bm{v}_s$ and normal fluid velocity $\bm{v}_n$ flow in the same direction. Quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 S. Ikawa , M. Tsubota

Inhomogeneous plasmas filaments instabilities are investigated by using the techniques of classical differential geometry of curves where Frenet torsion and curvature describe completely the motion of curves. In our case the Frenet frame…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garcia de Andrade

A century-long argument made by Lord Kelvin that all swimming objects have an effective Mach number of 3, corresponding to the Kelvin angle of 19.5 degree for ship waves, has been recently challenged with the conclusion that the Kelvin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Xihang Shi , Xiao Lin , Fei Gao , Hongyi Xu , Zhaoju Yang , Baile Zhang

We analyze plasma heating in weakly collisional kinetic Alfv\'en wave (KAW) turbulence using high resolution gyrokinetic simulations spanning the range of scales between the ion and the electron gyroradii. Real space structures that have a…

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