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Modeling the intermittent behavior of turbulent energy dissipation processes both in space and time is often a relevant problem when dealing with phenomena occurring in high Reynolds number flows, especially in astrophysical and space…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Lepreti , Vincenzo Carbone , Pierluigi Veltri

In incompressible and periodic statistically stationary turbulence, exchanges of turbulent energy across scales and space are characterised by very intense and intermittent spatio-temporal fluctuations around zero of the time-derivative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Tatsuya Yasuda , John Christos Vassilicos

Wind turbines operate in the atmospheric boundary layer, where they are exposed to the turbulent atmospheric flows. As the response time of wind turbine is typically in the range of seconds, they are affected by the small scale intermittent…

We report new measurements of turbulent mixing of temperature fluctuations in a low temperature helium gas experiment, spanning a range of microscale Reynolds number, $R_{\lambda}$, from 100 to 650. The exponents $\xi_{n}$ of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Moisy , H. Willaime , J. S. Andersen , P. Tabeling

We present an analysis of data stemming from numerical simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence up to grid resolution of 1536^3 points and up to Taylor Reynolds number of 1200. The initial conditions are such that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

The two-point correlation function of the energy dissipation, obtained from a one-point time record of an atmospheric boundary layer, reveals a rigorous power-law scaling with intermittency exponent mu=0.20 over almost the entire inertial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Cleve , M. Greiner , K. R. Sreenivasan

By analyzing hot-wire velocity data taken in an open channel flow, an unambiguous definition of surface-layer thickness is here provided in terms of the cross-over scale between backward and forward energy fluxes. It is shown that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-18 Guido Troiani , Francesco Cioffi , Angelo Olivieri , Carlo Massimo Casciola

Fundamental quantities of turbulent flows, such as the dissipation constant $C_\varepsilon$ and the intermittency factor $\mu$, are examined in relation to each other for a broader class of non-ideal turbulent flows. In the context of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 F. Schmitt , A. Fuchs , J. Peinke , M. Obligado

The intermittency of turbulent superfluid helium is explored systematically in a steady wake flow from 1.28 K up to T>2.18K using a local anemometer. This temperature range spans relative densities of superfluid from 96% down to 0%,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Eléonore Rusaouen , Benoît Chabaud , Julien Salort , Philippe-E Roche

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez , Steven M. Tobias

We discuss continuous cascade models and their potential for modelling the energy dissipation in a turbulent flow. Continuous cascade processes, expressed in terms of stochastic integrals with respect to L\'evy bases, are examples of ambit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-07 Emil Hedevang , Jürgen Schmiegel

In the decay region around the centreline of three qualitatively different turbulent plane wakes, the turbulence is non-homogeneous and two-point turbulent diffusion counteracts the turbulence cascade all the way down to scales smaller than…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Ernesto Fuentes Noriega , John Christos Vassilicos

Energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is known to be highly intermittent in space, being concentrated in sheet-like coherent structures. Much less is known about intermittency in time, another fundamental aspect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Stanislav Boldyrev

We examine the steady state of turbulent flows in thin layers using direct numerical simulations. It is shown that when the layer thickness is smaller than a critical height, an inverse cascade arises which leads to the formation of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-14 Adrian van Kan , Alexandros Alexakis

The nonequilibrium dissipation behaviour discovered for decaying fractal square grid-generated turbulence is experimentally investigated using hot-wire anemometry in a wind tunnel. The previous results are consolidated and benchmarked with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-25 Pedro C. Valente

Previous analysis of a Paris turbulence experiment \cite{zoc94,tab95} shows a transition at the Taylor Reynolds number $\rel \approx 700$. Here correlation function data is analyzed which gives further evidence for this transition. It is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Emsellem , L. Kadanoff , D. Lohse , P. Tabeling , J. Wang

Within the framework of random multiplicative energy cascade models of fully developed turbulence, expressions for two-point correlators and cumulants are derived, taking into account a proper conversion from an ultrametric to an Euclidean…

The Reynolds number dependence of the statistics of energy dissipation is investigated in a shell model of fully developed turbulence. The results are in agreement with a model which accounts for fluctuations of the dissipative scale with…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Boffetta , A. Celani , D. Roagna

We address the experimentally observed non-Gaussian fluctuations for the energy injected into a closed turbulent flow at fixed Reynolds number. We propose that the power fluctuations mirror the internal kinetic energy fluctuations. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Portelli , P. C. W. Holdsworth , J. -F. Pinton
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