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The fluctuations of turbulence intensity in a pipe flow around the critical Reynolds number is difficult to study but important because they are related to turbulent-laminar transitions. We here propose a rare-event sampling method to study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-08 Takahiro Nemoto , Alexandros Alexakis

A low-dimensional model of large Prandtl-number ($P$) Rayleigh B\'{e}nard convection is constructed using some of the important modes of pseudospectral direct numerical simulations. A detailed bifurcation analysis of the low-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-12 Supriyo Paul , Pankaj Wahi , Mahendra K. Verma

The stability problem of MHD Taylor-Couette flows with toroidal magnetic fields is considered in dependence on the magnetic Prandtl number. Only the most uniform (but not current-free) field with B\_in = B\_out has been considered. For high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-22 M. Gellert , G. Ruediger

Horizontally extended turbulent convection, termed mesoscale convection in natural systems, remains a challenge to investigate in both experiments and simulations. This is particularly so for very low molecular Prandtl numbers as in stellar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Ambrish Pandey , Dmitry Krasnov , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , Jörg Schumacher

We experimentally study the turbulent flow between two coaxial and independently rotating cylinders. We determined the scaling of the torque with Reynolds numbers at various angular velocity ratios (Rotation numbers), and the behaviour of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-08 Florent Ravelet , Rene Delfos , Jerry Westerweel

A calculational approach in fluid turbulence is presented. Use is made of the attracting nature of the fluid-dynamic dynamical system. An approximate approach is offerred that effectively propagates the statistics in time. Loss of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edsel A. Ammons

An earlier four-loop calculation of the fluctuation pressure of a fluid membrane between two infinite walls is extended to five loops. Variational perturbation theory is used to extract the hard-wall limit from perturbative results obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kastening

The frequency spectra of the entropy and kinetic energy along with the power spectrum of the thermal flux are computed from direct numerical simulations for turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection with uniform rotation about a vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-11 Hirdesh K. Pharasi , Krishna Kumar , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

The field theoretic renormalization group is applied to the stochastic Navier--Stokes equation that describes fully developed fluid turbulence. The complete two-loop calculation of the renormalization constant, the beta function and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ts. Adzhemyan , N. V. Antonov , M. V. Kompaniets , A. N. Vasil'ev

This study makes the first attempt to use the 2/3-order fractional Laplacian modeling of enhanced diffusing movements of random turbulent particle resulting from nonlinear inertial interactions. A combined effect of the inertial…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen Chen

The modeling of turbulence, whether it be numerical or analytical, is a difficult challenge. Turbulence is amenable to analysis with linear theory if it is subject to rapid distortions, i.e., motions occurring on a time scale that is short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Bryan M. Johnson

We study turbulent flows in pressure-driven ducts with square cross-section through direct numerical simulation in a wide enough range of Reynolds number to reach flow conditions which are representative of fully developed turbulence.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Pirozzoli , D. Modesti , P. Orlandi , F. Grasso

The macroscopic study of hydrodynamic turbulence is equivalent, at an abstract level, to the microscopic study of a heat flow for a suitable mechanical system. Turbulent fluctuations (intermittency) then correspond to thermal fluctuations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Ruelle

To study the Reynolds stresses which describe turbulent momentum transport from turbulence affected by large-scale shear and rotation. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are used to study turbulent transport under the influences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 J. E. Snellman , P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , A. J. Liljeström

We calculate the two-loop corrections in primordial power spectrum in models of single field inflation incorporating an intermediate USR phase employed for PBHs formation. Among the total eleven one-particle irreducible Feynman diagrams, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-16 Hassan Firouzjahi

Forced turbulence simulations are used to determine the turbulent kinematic viscosity, nu_t, from the decay rate of a large scale velocity field. Likewise, the turbulent magnetic diffusivity, eta_t, is determined from the decay of a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Yousef , A. Brandenburg , G. Rüdiger

Elasto-inertial turbulence is a new state of turbulence found in flows with polymer additives . The dynamics of turbulence generated and controlled by such additives is investigated from the perspective of the coupling between polymer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yves Dubief , Vincent E. Terrapon , Julio Soria

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-09 G. Boffetta , S. Musacchio

Power spectrum of the distributed chaos can be represented by a weighted superposition of the exponential functions which is converged to a stretched exponential $\propto \exp-(k/k_{\beta})^{\beta }$. An asymptotic theory has been developed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-12 A. Bershadskii

The behaviour of the turbulent Prandtl number ($Pr_t$) for buoyancy-affected flows near a vertical surface is investigated as an extension study of {Gibson \& Leslie, \emph{Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer}, Vol. 11, pp. 73-84 (1984)}. By…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Xiaowei Xu , Andrew S. H. Ooi , Richard D. Sandberg