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Turbulent-laminar patterns are ubiquitous near transition in wall-bounded shear flows. Despite recent progress in describing their dynamics in analogy to non-equilibrium phase transitions, there is no theory explaining their emergence.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Paul Ritter , Fernando Mellibovsky , Marc Avila

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

This article presents a modelling of the formation of spanwise vorticity in the turbulent streaks of the oblique bands and spots of transitional plane Couette flow. A functional model is designed to mimic the coherent flow in the streaks.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-10 Joran Rolland

We study waves in a chain of dispersively coupled phase oscillators. Two approaches -- a quasi-continuous approximation and an iterative numerical solution of the lattice equation -- allow us to characterize different types of traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-10-17 Karsten Ahnert , Arkardy Pikovsky

The swirling flow in a Francis type hydropower turbine is known to be susceptible to the formation of a large helical structure, commonly referred to as a vortex rope. This vortex rope can be interpreted as an unstable mode associated with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Artur Gesla , Eunok Yim

The structure of spiral waves is investigated in super-excitable reaction-diffusion systems where the local dynamics exhibits multi-looped phase space trajectories. It is shown that such systems support stable spiral waves with broken…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrei Goryachev , Raymond Kapral

In this work we investigate symmetry breaking in the presence of a turbulent environment. The transition from a symmetric state to a symmetry-breaking state is demonstrated using two examples: (i) the transition of a two-dimensional flow to…

The cascade-shell model of turbulence with six real variables originated by Gledzer is studied numerically using Mathematica 5.1. Periodic, doubly-periodic and chaotic solutions and the routes to chaos via both frequency-locking and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Umeki

Many shear flows follow a route to turbulence that has striking similarities to bifurcation scenarios in low-dimensional dynamical systems. Among the bifurcations that appear, crisis bifurcations are important because they cause global…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-12 Stefan Zammert , Bruno Eckhardt

Flows in fluid layers are ubiquitous in industry, geophysics and astrophysics. Large-scale flows in thin layers can be considered two-dimensional (2d) with bottom friction added. Here we find that the properties of such flows depend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-24 Gregory Falkovich , Natalia Vladimirova

This study performs a large-eddy simulation of turbulent separated and reattached flow in an enlarged annular pipe. A vortex ring is periodically shed from the sudden expansion part. A longitudinal vortex occurs around the vortex ring,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Hideki Yanaoka , Naoto Yamada

This paper studies the structural implications of constant vorticity for steady three-dimensional internal water waves. It is known that in many physical regimes, water waves beneath vacuum that have constant vorticity are necessarily two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Robin Ming Chen , Lili Fan , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

Oceanic turbulence influences the transport and mixing of freshwater, heat, nutrients, and other biogeochemical tracers. It also has broader implications for oceanic and atmospheric circulations. Tides contribute substantially to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-01 H. M. Aravind , Pranav Puthan , Sutanu Sarkar , Sophia Merrifield , Eric Terrill

The transitional and well-developed regimes of turbulent shear flows exhibit a variety of remarkable scaling laws that are only now beginning to be systematically studied and understood. In the first part of this article, we summarize…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-04 Nigel Goldenfeld , Hong-Yan Shih

We study a Rock-Paper-Scissors model for competing populations that exhibits travelling waves in one spatial dimension and spiral waves in two spatial dimensions. A characteristic feature of the model is the presence of a robust…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-14 Cris R. Hasan , Hinke M. Osinga , Claire M. Postlethwaite , Alastair M. Rucklidge

Turbulence sustains out-of-equilibrium energy fluxes shaped by conservation laws. Three-dimensional flows conserve energy and sign-indefinite helicity, both being transferred to small scales. Yet in 3D rotating turbulence, energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sébastien Gomé , Anna Frishman

In this paper we reveal the existence of a large family of new, nontrivial and smooth traveling waves for the 2D Euler equation at an arbitrarily small distance from the Couette flow in $H^s$, with $s<3/2$, at the level of the vorticity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Ángel Castro , Daniel Lear

The effect of temporal modulation on traveling waves in the flows in two distinct systems of rotating cylinders, both with broken azimuthal symmetry, has been investigated. It is shown that by modulating the control parameter at twice the…

Turbulent flows driven by a vertically invariant body force were proven to become exactly two-dimensional above a critical rotation rate, using upper bound theory. This transition in dimensionality of a turbulent flow has key consequences…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

Wilton ripples are a type of periodic traveling wave solution of the full water wave problem incorporating the effects of surface tension. They are characterized by a resonance phenomenon that alters the order at which the resonant harmonic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-10 Olga Trichtchenko , Bernard Deconinck , Jon Wilkening