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In a series of recent works it was proposed that shell models of turbulence exhibit inertial range scaling exponents that depend on the nature of the dissipative mechanism. If true, and if one could imply a similar phenomenon to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia , Damien Vandembroucq

The role of supersonic turbulence in structuring the interstellar medium (ISM) remains an unsettled question. Here, this problem is investigated using a newexact law of compressible isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence, which involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-14 Renaud Ferrand , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui , Christoph Federrath

In this work we develop a theoretical framework for the localization of flow in the steadily flowing regime of sheared disordered solids with inertial dynamics on a microscopic scale. To this aim we perform rheology studies at fixed shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-11 Vishwas V Vasisht , Magali Le Goff , Kirsten Martens , Jean-Louis Barrat

We show that non-axisymmetric, non-helical perturbations in an unstratified shear flow produce a shear-plane averaged electromotive force (EMF) proportional to a spatially dependent kinetic helicity. This new "shear-driven $\alpha$-effect"…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-07 F. Ebrahimi , E. G. Blackman

The effect of magnetic shear and shear flow on local gravitationally induced instabilities is investigated. A simple model is constructed allowing for an arbitrary entropy gradient and a shear plasma flow in the Boussinesq approximation. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gregory G. Howes , Steven C. Cowley , James C. McWilliams

The effect of oscillatory shear flows on turbulent transport of passive scalar fields is studied by numerical computations based on the results provided by E. Kim [\emph{Physics of Plasmas}, {\bf 13}, 022308, 2006]. Turbulent diffusion is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. P. L. Newton , E. Kim

The shear-current effect in a nonrotating homogeneous turbulent convection with a large-scale constant shear is studied. The large-scale velocity shear causes anisotropy of turbulent convection, which produces the mean electromotive force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Rogachevskii , N. Kleeorin

Recent experiments and simulations have shown that unsteady turbulent flows, before reaching a dynamic equilibrium state, display a universal behaviour. We show that the observed universal non-equilibrium scaling can be explained using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

We study the two-dimensional (2D) shear flow of amorphous solids within variants of an elastoplastic model, paying particular attention to spatial correlations and time fluctuations of, e.g., local stresses. The model is based on the local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-27 Alexandre Nicolas , Kirsten Martens , Lydéric Bocquet , Jean-Louis Barrat

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior of a compressible Lennard-Jones fluid in simple shear flow in a two-dimensional nanochannel. The system is equilibrated in the fluid phase close to the triple point at which gas,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-31 Madhu Priya , Yitzhak Rabin

A combination of methods originating from non-stationary timeseries analysis is applied to two datasets of near surface turbulence in order to gain insights on the non-stationary enhancement mechanism of intermittent turbulence in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nikki Vercauteren , Vyacheslav Boyko , Amandine Kaiser , Danijel Belušić

The traditional approach in the study of hydrodynamic stability of stratified fluids includes the stick boundary conditions between layers. However, this rule may be violated in polymer systems and as a consequence various instabilities may…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-10 Stanislav Patlazhan

We study a large-scale instability in a sheared nonhelical turbulence that causes generation of large-scale vorticity. Three types of the background large-scale flows are considered, i.e., the Couette and Poiseuille flows in a small-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Elperin , I. Golubev , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We have extended our study of the competition between the drive and stabilization of plasma microinstabilities by sheared flow to include electromagnetic effects at low plasma $\beta$ (the ratio of plasma to magnetic pressure). The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. D. J. Cole , S. L. Newton , S. C. Cowley , N. F. Loureiro , D. Dickinson , C. Roach , J. W. Connor

Fusion rules in turbulence address the asymptotic properties of many-point correlation functions when some of the coordinates are very close to each other. Here we put to experimental test some non-trivial consequences of the fusion rules…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Emily S. C. Ching , Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia

Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues. Despite occurring in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Ricard Alert , Jaume Casademunt , Jean-François Joanny

We demonstrate an unexpected connection between isotropic turbulence and wall-bounded shear flows. We perform direct numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence forced at large scales at moderate Reynolds numbers and observe sudden…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-25 Moritz Linkmann , Alexander Morozov

A model based on two-point closure theory of turbulence is proposed and applied to study the Reynolds number dependency of the scalar flux spectra in homogeneous shear flow with a cross-stream uniform scalar gradient. For the cross-stream…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-12-19 Wouter J. T. Bos , Jean-Pierre Bertoglio

Understanding the origin and structure of mean magnetic fields in astrophysical conditions is a major challenge. Shear flows often coexist in such astrophysical conditions and the role of flow shear on dynamo mechanism is only beginning to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Shishir Biswas , Rajaraman Ganesh

In this Part 2 we study further experimental properties of two-layer exchange flows in a stratified inclined duct (SID), which are turbulent, strongly-stratified, shear-driven, and continuously-forced. We analyse the same state-of-the-art…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Adrien Lefauve , P. F. Linden