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In space and astrophysical plasmas, violent events or instabilities inject energy into turbulent motions at large scales. Nonlinear interactions among the turbulent fluctuations drive a cascade of energy to small perpendicular scales at…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. L. Verniero , G. G. Howes

A new theory of coherent structure in wall turbulence is presented. The theory is the first to predict packets of hairpin vortices and other structure in turbulence, and their dynamics, based on an analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-04 A S Sharma , B J McKeon

We study the propagation of monochromatic surface waves on a turbulent flow. The flow is generated in a layer of liquid metal by an electromagnetic forcing. This forcing creates a quasi two-dimensional (2D) turbulence with strong vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-19 Pablo Gutiérrez , Sébastien Aumaitre

In classical inviscid fluids, antiparallel vortices perturbed by Kelvin waves exhibit the Crow instability, where the mutual interaction of the Kelvin modes renders them dynamically unstable. This results in the approach and reconnection of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-01 Srivatsa B. Prasad , Nick G. Parker , Andrew W. Baggaley

This experimental study analyzes the relationship between the dimensionality of turbulence and the upscale or downscale nature of its energy transfers. We do so by forcing low-$Rm$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a confined channel,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-12 N. T. Baker , A. Pothérat , L. Davoust , F. Debray

The ubiquitous turbulence in astrophysical plasmas is important for both magnetic reconnection and reconnection acceleration. We study the particle acceleration during fast 3D turbulent reconnection with reconnection-driven turbulence.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

The scale-invariant inverse energy cascade is a hallmark of 2D turbulence, with its theoretical energy spectrum observed in both direct numerical simulations (DNS) and laboratory experiments. Under this scale-invariance assumption, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Julie Meunier , Basile Gallet

We present experimental evidence for a double cascade of kinetic energy in a statistically stationary rotating turbulence experiment. Turbulence is generated by a set of vertical flaps which continuously injects velocity fluctuations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Antoine Campagne , Basile Gallet , Frédéric Moisy , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Under suitable forcing a fluid exhibits turbulence, with characteristics strongly affected by the fluid's confining geometry. Here we study two-dimensional quantum turbulence in a highly oblate Bose-Einstein condensate in an annular trap.…

The scattering of inertia-gravity waves by large-scale geostrophic turbulence in a rapidly rotating, strongly stratified fluid leads to the diffusion of wave energy on the constant-frequency cone in wavenumber space. We derive the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Hossein Kafiabad , Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

The flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a thin disc under the action of an azimuthal Lorentz force is studied experimentally. At small forcing, the Lorentz force is balanced by either viscosity or inertia, yielding quasi-Keplerian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Marlone Vernet , Michael Pereira , Stephan Fauve , Christophe Gissinger

The turbulence of capillary waves on the surface of a ferrofluid with a high permeability in a horizontal magnetic field is considered in the framework of a one-dimensional weakly nonlinear model. In the limit of a strong magnetic field,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-21 Evgeny A. Kochurin

The forward enstrophy cascade in two-dimensional quantum turbulence in a superfluid film connected to a thermal bath is investigated using a Fokker-Planck equation based on Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization. The steady-state cascade is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-08 Andrew Forrester , Han-ching Chu , Gary A. Williams

We demonstrate a direct one-to-one correspondence between nonlinear optical fields in defocusing Kerr media and wave functions in weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates or quantum fluids. Based on this correspondence, we propose the…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yosuke Minowa , Nobuhiko Yokoshi , Makoto Tsubota

We demonstrate an inverse energy cascade in a minimal model of forced 2D quantum vortex turbulence. We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a moving superfluid subject to forcing by a stationary grid of obstacle potentials, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-07 Matthew T. Reeves , Thomas P. Billam , Brian P. Anderson , Ashton S. Bradley

In a recent paper [T. Tanogami Phys. Rev. E 103, 023106 ] proposes a scenario for quantum turbulence where the energy spectrum at scales smaller than the inter-vortex distance is dominated by a quantum stress cascade, in opposition to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-14 Giorgio Krstulovic , Victor L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko

Recent numerical and observational studies revealed that spectra of magnetic and velocity fluctuations in MHD turbulence have different scaling indexes. This intriguing feature has been recently explained in the case of weak MHD turbulence,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-17 Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez , Yuxuan Wang

Previously, using an incompressible von K\'arm\'an-Howarth formalism, the behavior of cross-scale energy transfer in magnetic reconnection and turbulence was found to be essentially identical to each other, independent of an external…

Ultra-cold quantum turbulence is expected to decay through a cascade of Kelvin waves. These helical excitations couple vorticity to the quantum fluid causing long wavelength phonon fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein condensate. This…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-02 Scott A. Strong , Lincoln D. Carr

Turbulence is an out-of-equilibrium flow state that is characterised by nonzero net fluxes of kinetic energy between different scales of the flow. These fluxes play a crucial role in the formation of characteristic flow structures in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Youri H. Lemm , Xander M. de Wit , Rudie P. J. Kunnen