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In this paper, we consider a simplified model of turbulence for large Reynolds numbers driven by a constant power energy input on large scales. In the statistical stationary regime, the behaviour of the kinetic energy is characterised by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-16 Roberto Benzi , Ilaria Castaldi , Federico Toschi , Jeannot Trampert

Direct numerical simulations are used to investigate the individual dynamics of large spherical particles suspended in a developed homogeneous turbulent flow. A definition of the direction of the particle motion relative to the surrounding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mamadou Cisse , Holger Homann , Jeremie Bec

This work reports an experimental characterisation of the flow properties in a homogeneous bubble swarm rising at high-Reynolds-numbers within a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow. Both the gas volume fraction {\alpha} and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Elise Almeras , Varghese Mathai , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

The large scale features of the solar wind are examined in order to predict small scale features of turbulence in unexplored regions of the heliosphere. The strategy is to examine how system size, or effective Reynolds number, varies, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Tulasi N. Parashar , Manuel Cuesta , William H. Matthaeus

We consider equilibrium statistics for high Reynolds number isotropic turbulence in an incompressible flow driven by steady forcing at the largest scale. Motivated by shell model observations, we develop a similarity theory for the inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mogens V. Melander , Bruce R. Fabijonas

Turbulence governed by the Navier-Stokes equations shows a tendency to evolve towards a state in which the nonlinearity is diminished. In fully developed turbulence this tendency can be measured by comparing the variance of the nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-16 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

The origin of strong magnetic fields in the Universe can be explained by amplifying weak seed fields via turbulent motions on small spatial scales and subsequently transporting the magnetic energy to larger scales. This process is known as…

We study streamwise turbulence intensity definitions using smooth- and rough-wall pipe flow measurements made in the Princeton Superpipe. Scaling of turbulence intensity with the bulk (and friction) Reynolds number is provided for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-15 Nils T. Basse

We find actual evidence, relying upon vorticity time series taken in a high Reynolds number atmospheric experiment, that to a very good approximation the surface boundary layer flow may be described, in a statistical sense and under certain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kholmyansky , L. Moriconi , A. Tsinober

We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to model the development of turbulence in a quantum fluid confined by a cuboid box potential, and forced by shaking along one axis. We observe the development of isotropic turbulence from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Tommy Z. Fischer , Ashton S. Bradley

We investigate the turbulence statistics in a {multiphase plume made of heavy particles (particle Reynolds number at terminal velocity is 450)}. Using refractive-index-matched stereoscopic particle image velocimetry, we measure the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-03 Ankur D. Bordoloi , Chris C. K. Lai , Laura K. Clark , Gerardo Veliz , Evan Variano

From a database of direct numerical simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, generated in periodic boxes of various sizes, we extract the spherically symmetric part of moments of velocity increments and first verify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Kartik P. Iyer , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , P. K. Yeung

Recent numerical results show that if a scalar is mixed by periodically forced turbulence, the average mixing rate is directly affected for forcing frequencies small compared to the integral turbulence frequency. We elucidate this by an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-04 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

Recent developments of the weak turbulence theory applied to internal waves exhibit a power-law solution of the kinetic energy equation close to the oceanic Garrett \& Munk spectrum, confirming weakly nonlinear wave interactions as a likely…

We study effects of kinetic helicity fluctuations in a turbulence with large-scale shear using two different approaches: the spectral tau-approximation and the second order correlation approximation (or first-order smoothing approximation).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The proposed universality of small scale turbulence is investigated for a set of measurements in a cryogenic free jet with a variation of the Reynolds number (Re) from 8500 to 10^6. The traditional analysis of the statistics of velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ch. Renner , J. Peinke , R. Friedrich , O. Chanal , B. Chabaud

We investigate various boundary conditions in two dimensional turbulence systematically in the context of conformal field theory. Keeping the conformal invariance, we can either change the shape of boundaries through finite conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-05 B. K. Chung , Soonkeon Nam , Q-Han Park , H. J. Shin

To understand the basic mechanism of the formation of magnetic flux concentrations, we determine by direct numerical simulations the turbulence contributions to the mean magnetic pressure in a strongly stratified isothermal layer with large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Axel Brandenburg , Koen Kemel , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

The Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence is investigated by means of high resolution numerical simulations. The main question addressed here is on whether RT phenomenology can be considered as a manifestation of universality of Navier--Stokes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

We develop exact field theoretic methods to treat turbulence when the effect of pressure is negligible. We find explicit forms of certain probability distributions, demonstrate that the breakdown of Galilean invariance is responsible for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Polyakov