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Stratification can cause turbulence spectra to deviate from Kolmogorov's isotropic -5/3 power-law scaling in the universal equilibrium range at high Reynolds numbers. However, a consensus has not been reached with regard to the exact shape…

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Upper-ocean turbulent flows at horizontal length scales smaller than the deformation radius depart from geostrophic equilibrium and develop important vertical velocities, which are key to marine ecology and climatic processes. Due to their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-04 Michael Maalouly , Guillaume Lapeyre , Bastien Cozian , Gilmar Mompean , Stefano Berti

We investigate how inhomogeneity influences the $k^{-5/3}$ inertial range scaling of turbulent kinetic energy spectra (with $k$ the wavenumber). For weak statistical inhomogeneity, the energy spectrum can be described as an equilibrium…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-03 Ryo Araki , Wouter J. T. Bos

We review and discuss some different techniques for describing local dispersion properties in fluids. A recent Lagrangian diagnostics, based on the Finite Scale Lyapunov Exponent (FSLE), is presented and compared to the Finite Time Lyapunov…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boffetta , G. Lacorata , G. Redaelli , A. Vulpiani

The linear evolution of disturbances due to a ribbon vibrating at frequency $\omega_0$ in plane Poiseuille flow is computed by solving the associated initial boundary value problem in the Fourier-Laplace plane, followed by inversion. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-11 Usha Srinivasan , Rangachari Kidambi

High-frequency wave propagation in near-inertial wave shear has been considered fundamental in setting the spectral character of the oceanic internal wave continuum and for transporting energy to wave-breaking. We compare idealized ray…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Kurt L Polzin , Yuri V Lvov

In recent works we developed a model of balanced gas flow where the momentum equation possesses an additional mean field forcing term, which originates from the hard sphere interaction potential between the gas particles. We demonstrated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-20 Rafail V. Abramov

Herein,we numerically examine the relative dispersion of Lagrangian particle pairs in two-dimensional inverse energy-cascade turbulence. Behind the Richardson-Obukhov $t^3$ law of relative separation, we discover that the second-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-06 Tatsuro Kishi , Takeshi Matsumoto , Sadayoshi Toh

We explore methods for robust estimation of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). A Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) is introduced for measuring the spatial temperature fluctuation power spectrum from the EoR. The KDE…

Using previously developed method of two-dimensional Laplace transform we obtain the characteristic equations k(\omega) for electromagnetic waves in low-collision fully ionized plasma of a plane geometry. We apply here a new, different from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

We present a numerical study of two-particle dispersion from point-sources in 3D incompressible Homogeneous and Isotropic turbulence, at Reynolds number Re \simeq 300. Tracer particles are emitted in bunches from localized sources smaller…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Scatamacchia , L. Biferale , F. Toschi

The description of the turbulent spectrum of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind in the kinetic range of scales is not yet completely established. Here, we perform a statistical study of 100 spectra measured by the STAFF instrument on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 Olga Alexandrova , Catherine Lacombe , Andre Mangeney , Roland Grappin , Milan Maksimovic

Within the framework of dispersion theory, we study the the processes $e^+e^-\to \phi(2170) \to \phi \pi\pi(K\bar{K})$. The strong pion-pion final-state interactions, especially the $K\bar{K}$ coupled channel in the $S$-wave, are taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Yun-Hua Chen

In this work, the scaling statistics of the dissipation along Lagrangian trajectories are investigated by using fluid tracer particles obtained from a high resolution direct numerical simulation with $Re_{\lambda}=400$. Both the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. X. Huang , Francois G. Schmitt

A simple model which can explain the observed vertical distribution and size spectrum of atmospheric aerosol has been proposed. The model is based on a new physical hypothesis for the vertical mass exchange between the troposphere and the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mary Selvam , A. S. Ramachandra Murty , Bh. V. Ramanamurty

We report an experimental investigation of pair dispersions in turbulent thermal convection with initial separation r0 ranging from sub-Kolmogorov scale to scales in the inertial range. In the dissipative range of scales we observed for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-05 Rui Ni , Ke-Qing Xia

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature provides an important distance scale for the measurement of the expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical models of the BAO in the distribution of biased tracers of the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Tobias Baldauf , Vincent Desjacques

The Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectrum predicted by the Weak Turbulence Theory remains elusive for wave turbulence of flexural waves at the surface of an thin elastic plate. We report a direct measurement of the nonlinear timescale $T_{NL}$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Benjamin Miquel , Nicolas Mordant

The energy spectrum of the cosmic radiation in the range 10$^{19}$-2.4$\times$10$^{21}$ eV has been recently predicted showing a rich and distinctive staircase profile. In order to check the prediction, the spectra measured by running and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-19 Antonio Codino

We study the statistics of single particle Lagrangian velocity in a shell model of turbulence. We show that the small scale velocity fluctuations are intermittent, with scaling exponents connected to the Eulerian structure function scaling…

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