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We study wave turbulence in systems with two special properties: a large number of fields (large $N$) and a nonlinear interaction that is strongly local in momentum space. The first property allows us to find the kinetic equation at all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-27 Vladimir Rosenhaus , Daniel Schubring

Here we consider the problem of small oscillations of a rotating inviscid incompressible fluid. From a mathematical point of view, new exact solutions to the two-dimensional Poincar\'e-Sobolev equation in a class of domains including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-24 S. D. Troitskaya

The recent observation of gravitational waves, stimulates the question of the longtime evolution of the space-time fluctuations. Gravitational waves interact themselves through the nonlinear character of Einstein's equations of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Sergio Rica

Wave turbulence is the study of the long-time statistical behaviour of equations describing a set of weakly non-linear interacting waves. Such a theory, which has a natural asymptotic closure, allows us to probe the nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Sebastien Galtier

After the pioneering work of Garrett and Munk, the statistics of oceanic internal gravity waves has become a central subject of research in oceanography. The time evolution of the spectral energy of internal waves in the ocean can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Irene M. Gamba , Leslie M. Smith , Minh-Binh Tran

As presented in Annenkov & Shrira (2009), when a surface gravity wave field is subjected to an abrupt perturbation of external forcing, its spectrum evolves on a ``fast'' dynamic time scale of $O(\varepsilon^{-2})$, with $\varepsilon$ a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Ashleigh Simonis , Alexander Hrabski , Yulin Pan

Ocean turbulence plays a key role in shaping large-scale circulation, heat uptake, and biogeochemical processes. The kinetic energy (KE) wavenumber spectrum is a fundamental diagnostic, quantifying how KE is distributed across spatial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Ayantika Bhattacharjee , Spencer Jones , Dhruv Balwada , Shane Elipot , Manuel Gutierrez-Villanueva

Using the Langevin approach and the multiscale technique, a kinetic theory of the time and space nonlocal fluctuations in the collisional plasma is constructed. In local equilibrium a generalized version of the Callen-Welton theorem is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Belyi

Nonlinear interaction and breaking of internal ocean waves are responsible for much of the interior ocean mixing, affecting ocean carbon storage and the global overturning circulation. These interactions may affect the observed Garrett-Munk…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Golan Bel , Eli Tziperman

In this paper, we numerically study the wave turbulence of surface gravity waves in the framework of Euler equations of the free surface. The purpose is to understand the variation of the scaling of the spectra with wavenumber $k$ and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhou Zhang , Yulin Pan

A fundamental question in wave turbulence theory is to understand how the "wave kinetic equation" (WKE) describes the long-time dynamics of its associated nonlinear dispersive equation. Formal derivations in the physics literature date back…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

An analytical solution of the perturbed equations is obtained, which exists in all ergodic models of collisionless spherical stellar systems with a single length parameter. This solution corresponds to variations of this parameter, i.e.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-10 Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Ilia G. Shukhman

Rossby wave turbulence, as modelled by the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) equation, is nonlocal in scale. As a result, the formal stationary Kolmogorov-Zakharov solutions of the Rossby wave kinetic equation, which describe local cascades, are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-14 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

We report evaluations of a resonant kinetic equation that suggest the slow time evolution of the Garrett and Munk spectrum is {\em not}, in fact, slow. Instead nonlinear transfers lead to evolution time scales that are smaller than one wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-05 Yuri V. Lvov , Kurt L. Polzin , Naoto Yokoyama

Reduced fluid models for collisionless plasmas including electron inertia and finite Larmor radius corrections are derived for scales ranging from the ion to the electron gyroradii. Based either on pressure balance or on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , E. Tassi

Starting from a stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation on a lattice, the previous work [ST21] by the last two authors gave a derivation of the homogeneous 3-wave kinetic equation at the kinetic limit under very general assumptions: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Amirali Hannani , Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani , Minh-Binh Tran

The way in which kinetic energy is distributed over the multiplicity of inertial (intermediate) scales is a fundamental feature of turbulence. According to Kolmogorov's 1941 theory, on the basis of a dimensional analysis, the form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-21 Stefania Scarsoglio , Francesca De Santi , Daniela Tordella

The paper is devoted to the group analysis of equations of motion of two-dimensional uniformly stratified rotating fluids used as a basic model in geophysical fluid dynamics. It is shown that the nonlinear equations in question have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Nail H. Ibragimov , Ranis N. Ibragimov

A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field $\boldsymbol{B_0} = B_0 \hat{\boldsymbol{e}}_\|$. This regime is relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier

To investigate the formation mechanism of energy spectra of internal waves in the oceans, direct numerical simulations are performed. The simulations are based on the reduced dynamical equations of rotating stratified turbulence. In the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-10 Yuri V. Lvov , Naoto Yokoyama