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We consider enstrophy dissipation in two-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stokes flows and focus on how this quantity behaves in thelimit of vanishing viscosity. After recalling a number of a priori estimates providing lower and upper bounds on this…
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In Kolmogorov's phenomenological theory of turbulence, the energy spectrum in the inertial range scales with the wave number $k$ as $k^{-5/3}$ and extends up to a dissipation wave number $k_\nu$, which is given in terms of the energy…
Consideration of various hydrodynamic phenomena involves the study of the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations, what is hard enough for analytical and numerical investigations since already in three-dimensional (3D) case it is a challenging task…
Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow…
We formulate a scaling theory for the long-time diffusive motion in a space occluded by a high density of moving obstacles in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. Our tracers diffuse anomalously over many decades in time, before reaching a diffusive…
Direct Numerical Simulation is performed of the forced Navier-Stokes equation in four spatial dimensions. Well equilibrated, long time runs at sufficient resolution were obtained to reliably measure spectral quantities, the velocity…
We study a model of fully developed turbulence of a compressible fluid, based on the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation, by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. In this approach, scaling properties are related to the fixed…
We seek to understand the kinetic energy spectrum in the dissipation range of fully developed turbulence. The data are obtained by direct numerical simulations (DNS) of forced Navier-Stokes equations in a periodic domain, for Taylor-scale…
We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid in a three-dimensional domain, rotating about a vertical axis and driven by a vertically invariant horizontal body-force. This system admits vertically invariant solutions that satisfy the 2D…
We study the chaoticity and the predictability of a turbulent flow on the basis of high-resolution direct numerical simulations at different Reynolds numbers. We find that the Lyapunov exponent of turbulence, which measures the exponential…
Turbulent flows present rich dynamics originating from non-trivial energy fluxes across scales, non-stationary forcings and geometrical constraints. This complexity manifests in non-hyperbolic chaos, randomness, state-dependent persistence…
We present a statistical analysis of the behavior of the kinetic energy spectrum in the dissipative range of scales of fully developed three-dimensional turbulence. We analyze spectra recorded in experiments of grid turbulence generated in…
Freely decaying two-dimensional Navier--Stokes turbulence is studied. The conservation of vorticity by advective nonlinearities renders a class of Casimirs that decays under viscous effects. A rigorous constraint on the palinstrophy…
In this paper we study a well-known three--dimensional turbulence model, the filtered Clark model, or Clark-alpha model. This is Large Eddy Simulation (LES) tensor-diffusivity model of turbulent flows with an additional spatial filter of…
We introduce an analogue to Kato's Criterion regarding the inviscid convergence of stochastic Navier-Stokes flows to the strong solution of the deterministic Euler equation. Our assumptions cover additive, multiplicative and transport type…
The correlation between inertial range velocity fluctuations and energy dissipation in fully developed turbulence is studied using high resolution direct numerical simulation. Runs with microscale Reynolds number up to ${\cal R}_{\lambda}…
We study the statistical properties of stationary, isotropic and homogeneous turbulence in two-dimensional (2D) flows, focusing on the direct cascade, that is on wave-numbers large compared to the integral scale, where both energy and…
We use recent developments in the theory of finite-time dynamical systems to objectively locate the material boundaries of coherent vortices in two-dimensional Navier--Stokes turbulence. We show that these boundaries are optimal in the…