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Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that we review in this colloquium for the case of dry scalar active matter, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-20 Omer Granek , Yariv Kafri , Mehran Kardar , Sunghan Ro , Alexandre Solon , Julien Tailleur

The phenomenon of Taylor or shear-induced dispersion of a non-passive scalar field in a pulsatile pipe flow is investigated, accounting for the scalar field's influence on fluid density and transport coefficients. By employing multiple…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Prabakaran Rajamanickam , Adam D. Weiss

To study the impact of active systems on their surroundings, we introduce a model that couples an active nematic fluid to an isotropic substrate fluid via friction. We numerically show that as the active layer develops turbulence, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Gianmarco Spera , Julia M. Yeomans , Sumesh P. Thampi

Recently, Shete et al. [Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 024601 (2022)] explored the characteristics of passive scalars in the presence of a uniform mean gradient, mixed by stationary isotropic turbulence. They concluded that at high Reynolds and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Recent experiments demonstrate the importance of substrate curvature for actively forced fluid dynamics. Yet, the covariant formulation and analysis of continuum models for non-equilibrium flows on curved surfaces still poses theoretical…

We have recently proposed that the statistics of active fields (which affect the velocity field itself) in well-developed turbulence are also dominated by the Statistically Preserved Structures of auxiliary passive fields which are advected…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Emily S. C. Ching , Yoram Cohen , Thomas Gilbert , Itamar Procaccia

Polyakov has suggested that two dimensional turbulence might be described by a minimal model of conformal field theory. However, there are many minimal models satisfying the same physical inputs as Polyakov's solution (p,q)=(2,21).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 G. Ferretti , Z. Yang

We investigate experimentally the statistical properties of active and passive scalar fields in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in water, at $Ra\sim10^{10}$. Both the local concentration of fluorescence dye and the local…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Quan Zhou , Ke-Qing Xia

We present results from an ensemble of 50 runs of two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence with spatial resolution of 2048^2 grid points, and from an ensemble of 10 runs with 4096^2 grid points. All runs in each ensemble have random initial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Remarkably, even under negligible inertia, the addition of microstructural agents can generate chaotic flow fields. Such behavior can arise in polymer solutions, leading to elastic turbulence, or from active, self-driven particles, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Vedad Dzanic , Sumesh P. Thampi , Julia M. Yeomans

We investigate the energy cascade in wall-bounded turbulence by analysing the interscale transfer between streamwise and spanwise length scales in periodic channels. This transfer originates from the nonlinear interactions in the advective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-10 Joy Chen , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral

In this paper we analyze the transport of passive tracers by deterministic stationary incompressible flows which can be decomposed over an infinite number of spatial scales without separation between them. It appears that a low order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Houman Owhadi

The theory of stochastic differential equations is exploited to derive the Hopf's identities for a passive scalar advected by a Gaussian drift field delta-correlated in time. The result holds true both for compressible and incompressible…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Paolo Muratore Ginanneschi

We present simulations of coherent structures in compressible flows near the transition to turbulence using the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) method. The structures we find are remarkably consistent with experimental observations and…

In this paper, we study the development of anisotropy in strong MHD turbulence in the presence of a large scale magnetic field B 0 by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations. Our results show that the developed anisotropy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Sita Sundar , Mahendra K. Verma , Alexandros Alexakis , Anando G. Chatterjee

We discuss the linear hydrodynamic response of a two-dimensional active chiral compressible fluid with odd viscosity. The viscosity coefficient represents broken time-reversal and parity symmetries in the 2D fluid and characterizes the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura , David Andelman

We describe ideal incompressible hydrodynamics on the hyperbolic plane which is an infinite surface of constant negative curvature. We derive equations of motion, general symmetries and conservation laws, and then consider turbulence with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gregory Falkovich , Krzysztof Gawedzki

Large scale features of a randomly isotropically forced incompressible and unbounded rotating fluid are examined in perturbation theory. At first order in both the random force amplitude and the angular velocity we find two types of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Gaite , David Hochberg , Carmen Molina-Paris

We provide the leading behavior at large wavenumbers of the two-point correlation function of a scalar field passively advected by a turbulent flow. We first consider the Kraichnan model, in which the turbulent carrier flow is modeled by a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-29 Carlo Pagani , Léonie Canet

We derive the exact relation for the energy transfer in three-dimensional compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence. In the long-time limit, we obtain an exact law which expresses the scale-to-scale average energy flux rate in terms of two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-01 Supratik Banerjee , Nahuel Andres