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The random Fourier method (RFM) is widely employed for synthetic turbulence due to its mathematical clarity and simplicity. However, deviations remain between prescribed inputs and synthetic results, and the origin of these errors has not…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Hongyuan Lin , Yi Liu , Shizhao Wang , Chun-Hian Lee

The kinetic theory of soliton gases (SG) is used to develop a solvable model for wave-mean field interaction in integrable turbulence. The waves are stochastic soliton ensembles that scatter off a critically dense SG or soliton condensate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-18 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer

We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of internal waves excited by turbulent convection in a self-consistent, Boussinesq and Cartesian model of convective--stably-stratified fluids. We demonstrate that in the limit of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Louis-Alexandre Couston , Daniel Lecoanet , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

We study the spectral energy transfer due to wave-triad interactions in the Garrett-Munk spectrum of internal gravity waves (IGWs) based on a numerical evaluation of the collision integral in the wave kinetic equation. Our numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yue Wu , Yulin Pan

Weak Wave Turbulence is a powerful theory to predict statistical observables of diverse relevant physical phenomena, such as ocean waves, magnetohydrodynamics and nonlinear optics. The theory is based upon an asymptotic closure permitted in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sergio Chibbaro , Christophe Josserand

We consider a full set of harmonics for the Stokes wave in deep water in the absence of viscosity, and examine the role that higher harmonics play in modifying the classical Benjamin-Feir instability. Using a representation of the wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-26 Shahrdad G. Sajjadi , David L. Ross

The problem of internal gravity waves generation by a point source moving in a stratified medium varying with respect to all spatial variables and time is considered. The fact that the characteristic horizontal scales of density variation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov , Vasily A. Vakorin

Ocean motions at frequencies of the internal wave band are generally associated with freely propagating waves that are supported by stable vertical stratification in density. Previous analyses of yearlong current observations from the Bay…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Hans van Haren , Leo Maas

The emission of gravitational waves is studied for a system of massive objects interacting on hyperbolic orbits within the quadrupole approximation following the work of Capozziello et al. Here we focus on the derivation of an analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-13 Lorenzo De Vittori , Philippe Jetzer , Antoine Klein

The interplay among the spectrum, geometry and magnetic field in tubular neighbourhoods of curves in Euclidean spaces is investigated in the limit when the cross section shrinks to a point. Proving a norm resolvent convergence, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 David Krejcirik , Nicolas Raymond

Across the stable density stratification of the abyssal ocean, deep dense water is slowly propelled upward by sustained, though irregular, turbulent mixing. The resulting mean upwelling determines large-scale oceanic circulation properties…

The amplitude equation for an unstable electrostatic wave is analyzed using an expansion in the mode amplitude $A(t)$. In the limit of weak instability, i.e. $\gamma\to 0^+$ where $\gamma$ is the linear growth rate, the nonlinear…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 John David Crawford , Anandhan Jayaraman

Though highly impacting our lives, rotating turbulent flows are not well understood. These anisotropic three-dimensional disordered flows are governed by different nonlinear processes, each of which can be dominant in a different range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Omri Shaltiel , Omri Gat , Eran Sharon

The spectrum of thermal gravitational waves is obtained by including the high frequency thermal gravitons created from extra-dimensional effect and is a new feature of the spectrum. The amplitude and spectral energy density of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 Basem Ghayour , P K Suresh

Since the advent of satellite altimetry, our perception of the oceanic circulation has brought into focus the pervasiveness of mesoscale eddies that have typical scales of tens to hundreds of kilometers [5], are the ocean's analogue of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Benjamin A. Storer , Michele Buzzicotti , Hemant Khatri , Stephen M. Griffies , Hussein Aluie

We investigate experimentally stratified turbulence forced by waves. Stratified turbulence is present in oceans and it is expected to be dominated by nonlinear interaction of internal gravity waves as described by the Garrett & Munk…

Formation of turbulence of capillary waves is studied in laboratory experiments. The spectra show multiple exponentially decreasing harmonics of the parametrically excited wave which nonlinearly broaden with the increase in forcing.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-26 H. Xia , M. Shats , H. Punzmann

In this work, we study a three-wave kinetic equation with resonance broadening arising from the theory of stratified ocean flows. Unlike Gamba-Smith-Tran(On the wave turbulence theory for stratified flows in the ocean, Math. Models Methods…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Young Ho Kim , Yuri V. Lvov , Leslie M. Smith , Minh-Binh Tran

We revisit the production of gravitational waves from unstable domain walls analyzing their spectrum by the use of field theoretic lattice simulations with grid size $1024^3$, which is larger than the previous study. We have recognized that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

We discover an instability mechanism in suspensions of self-propelled particles that does not involve active stress. Instead, it is driven by a subtle interplay of inertia, swimmer motility, and concentration fluctuations, through a crucial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Purnima Jain , Navdeep Rana , Sriram Ramaswamy , Prasad Perlekar