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Recent research has shed light on the role of coherent structures in forming layers when stably stratified turbulence is forced with horizontal shear (Lucas, Caulfield & Kerswell, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 832, 2017, pp. 409-437). Here we extend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Dan Lucas , C. P. Caulfield , Rich R. Kerswell

Formation of large-scale coherent structures in a turbulent convection via excitation of large-scale instability is studied. The redistribution of the turbulent heat flux due to non-uniform large-scale motions plays a crucial role in the…

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

A phase-space formulation of non-stationary nonlinear dynamics including both Hamiltonian (e.g., quantum-cosmological) and dissipative (e.g., dissipative laser) systems reveals an unexpected affinity between seemly different branches of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-30 Vladimir L. Kalashnikov , Sergey L. Cherkas

The article summarizes the studies of wave fields in structured non-equilibrium media describing by means of nonlocal hydrodynamic models. Due to the symmetry properties of models, we derived the invariant wave solutions satisfying…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-05 V. A. Danylenko , S. I. Skurativskyi

The detection of coherent structures is an important problem in fluid dynamics, particularly in geophysical applications. For instance, knowledge of how regions of fluid are isolated from each other allows prediction of the ultimate fate of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-28 Michael R. Allshouse , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this letter, we show that coherent structures are related to folds of horseshoes which are present in chaotic systems. We develop techniques that allow us to construct coherent structures by manipulating folds in three prototypical…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Troy Shinbrot , J. M. Ottino

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

The edge density and temperature of tokamak plasmas are strongly correlated with energy and particle confinement and their quantification is fundamental to understanding edge dynamics. These quantities exhibit behaviours ranging from sharp…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhilash Mathews , Jerry Hughes

A model of the thin shell expanding into a uniform ambient medium is developed. Density perturbations are described using equations with linear and quadratic terms, and the linear and the nonlinear solutions are compared. We follow the time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Wunsch , J. Palous

The paper addresses the bistability caused by spontaneous symmetry breaking bifurcation in a one-dimensional periodically corrugated nonlinear waveguide pumped by coherent light at normal incidence. The formation and the stability of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

The spatial organization of a passive scalar plume originating from a point source in a turbulent boundary layer is studied to understand its meandering characteristics. We focus shortly downstream of the isokinetic injection ($1.5\le…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 Isaiah E. Wall , Gokul Pathikonda

We find that hexagonal structures forming in semiconductor resonators can range from coherent patterns to arrangements of loosely bound spatial solitons, which can be individually switched. Such incoherent arrangements are stabilized by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Taranenko , C. O. Weiss , B. Schaepers

The modification of dominant coherent structures that extend through the log-region of a drag reduced turbulent boundary layer is studied via examination of two-point correlations from time-resolved particle-image-velocimetry. Measurements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-13 Yasaman Farsiani , Zeeshan Saeed , Balaji Jayaraman , Brian R. Elbing

We show that hydrodynamic theories of polar active matter generically possess inhomogeneous traveling solutions. We introduce a unifying dynamical-system framework to establish the shape of these intrinsically nonlinear patterns, and show…

The energy input and frequency shift of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) due to turbulence in tokamak edge plasmas are investigated in numerical two-fluid turbulence studies. Surprisingly, the turbulent GAM dispersion relation is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert Hager , Klaus Hallatschek

We study interfacial waves in a system of two horizontal layers of immiscible inviscid fluids involved into horizontal vibrational motion. We analyze the linear and nonlinear stability properties of the solitons in the system and consider…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Denis S. Goldobin , Kseniya V. Kovalevskaya , Dmitry V. Lyubimov

Coherent states provide a natural connection of quantum systems to their classical limit and are employed in various fields of physics. Here we derive general systematic expansions, with respect to quantum parameters, of expectation values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 John Schliemann

Spectra of the geometric collective model of atomic nuclei are analyzed to identify chaotic correlations among nonrotational states. The model has been previously shown to exhibit a high degree of variability of regular and chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 Pavel Stransky , Petr Hruska , Pavel Cejnar

The correlation buildup and the formation dynamics of the shell structure in a spherically confined one-component plasma are studied. Using Langevin dynamics simulations the relaxation processes and characteristic time scales and their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Kaehlert , M. Bonitz

Dynamic Complexity is a phenomenon exhibited by a nonlinearly interacting system within which multitudes of different sizes of large scale coherent structures emerge, resulting in a globally nonlinear stochastic behavior vastly different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tom Chang , Cheng-chin Wu , Marius Echim , Herve Lamy , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist , Debora Sijacki