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Scaling laws for turbulent thermomagnetic convection of a high-Pr fluid in a square cavity are obtained through direct numerical simulations and formulated via theoretical arguments informed by the numerical data. A regime consistent with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Paolo Capobianchi

We use recent developments in the theory of finite-time dynamical systems to objectively locate the material boundaries of coherent vortices in two-dimensional Navier--Stokes turbulence. We show that these boundaries are optimal in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Mohammad Farazmand , George Haller

We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is highly sparse, focusing exclusively on the most intense…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-18 Wandrille Ruffenach , Lucas Fery , Bérengère Dubrulle

Turbulence is a complex system exhibiting both universal statistical features and prominent coherent structures. We model turbulence using coherent vortices distributed within a multi-scale statistical framework, termed `woven turbulence'.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Zishuo Han , Weiyu Shen , Yue Yang

The temporal evolution of the fluid circulation generated by a buoyancy force when two-dimensional (2D) arrays of 2D thermals are released into a quiescent incompressible fluid is studied through the results of numerous lattice Boltzmann…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Stansell , R. V. R. Pandya

In this paper, we are interested in the long-time behaviour of stochastic systems of n interacting vortices: the position in R2 of each vortex evolves according to a Brownian motion and a drift summing the influences of the other vortices…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Joaquin Fontbona , Benjamin Jourdain

The emergence of coherent rotating structures is a phenomenon characteristic of both classical and quantum 2D turbulence. In this work we show theoretically that the coherent vortex structures that emerge in decaying 2D quantum turbulence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-06 Matthew T. Reeves , Thomas P. Billam , Brian P. Anderson , Ashton S. Bradley

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

Turbulence follows a few well-known organizational principles, rooted in conservation laws. One such principle states that a system conserving two sign-definite invariants self-organizes into large-scale structures. Ordinary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Sébastien Gomé , Anna Frishman

We combine a DEM simulation with a stochastic process to model the movement of spherical particles in a turbulent channel flow. With this model we investigate the mixing properties of two species of particles flowing through the channel. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-20 Thomas Burgener , Dirk Kadau , Hans J. Herrmann

Coherent structures such as jets and vortices appear in two-dimensional (2D) turbulence. To gain insight into both numerical simulation and equilibrium statistical mechanical descriptions of 2D Euler flows, the Euler equation with added…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-28 Wanming Qi , J. B. Marston

The present work discusses about a possible physical interpretation of the occurrence of turbulence in a dynamic fluid with mathematical modeling and computer simulation. Here turbulence is defined to be a phenomenon of random velocity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaushik Majumdar

Numerical calculations of Helium-II hydrodynamics show that a dense tangle of superfluid vortices induces in an initially stationary normal fluid a highly dissipative, complex, vortical flow pattern ("turbulence") with a -2.2 energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Demosthenes Kivotides

We use molecular dynamics simulation results on viscous binary Lennard-Jones mixtures to examine the correlation between the potential energy and the virial. In accord with a recent proposal [U. R. Pedersen et. al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-08 D. Coslovich , C. M. Roland

We study the motion of vortices in the conserved and non-conserved phase-ordering models. We give an analytical method for computing the speed and position distribution functions for pairs of annihilating point vortices based on heuristic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Hai Qian , Gene F. Mazenko

We derive quantitative propagation of chaos in the sense of relative entropy for the 2D viscous vortex model with general circulations, approximating the vorticity formulation of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation on the whole Euclidean space.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Xuanrui Feng , Zhenfu Wang

The evolution of a turbulent tangle of quantum vortices in presence of finite-size active particles is studied by means of numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Particles are modeled as potentials depleting the superfluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic

The dynamics of the forward vortex cascade in 2D turbulence in a superfluid film is investigated using analytic techniques. The cascade is formed by injecting pairs with the same initial separation (the stirring scale) at a constant rate.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrew Forrester , Gary A. Williams

We show that the fluctuations of the partial current in two dimensional diffusive systems are dominated by vortices leading to a different scaling from the one predicted by the hydrodynamic large deviation theory. This is supported by exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Bodineau , B. Derrida , J. Lebowitz

The theory describing the evolution of inhomogeneous vortex tangle at zero temperature is developed on the bases of kinetics of merging and splitting vortex loops. Vortex loops composing the vortex tangle can move as a whole with some drift…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergey K. Nemirovskii