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We investigate the locality of interactions in hydrodynamic turbulence using data from a direct numerical simulation on a grid of 1024^3 points; the flow is forced with the Taylor-Green vortex. An inertial range for the energy is obtained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Alexakis , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

This experimental study analyzes the relationship between the dimensionality of turbulence and the upscale or downscale nature of its energy transfers. We do so by forcing low-$Rm$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a confined channel,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-12 N. T. Baker , A. Pothérat , L. Davoust , F. Debray

We investigate the scale-locality of subgrid-scale (SGS) energy flux and inter-band energy transfers defined by the sharp spectral filter. We show by rigorous bounds, physical arguments and numerical simulations that the spectral SGS flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Hussein Aluie , Gregory L. Eyink

In a forced three-dimensional turbulent flow the scales larger than the forcing scale have been conjectured to reach a thermal equilibrium state forming a $k^2$ energy spectrum. In this work we examine the properties of these large scales…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-24 Alexandros Alexakis , Marc-Etienne Brachet

Many fluid-dynamical systems met in nature are quasi-two-dimensional: they are constrained to evolve in approximately two dimensions with little or no variation along the third direction. This has a drastic effect in the flow evolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-14 Alexandros Alexakis

We investigate the transfer of energy from large scales to small scales in fully developed forced three-dimensional MHD-turbulence by analyzing the results of direct numerical simulations in the absence of an externally imposed uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexandros Alexakis , Pablo D. Mininni , Annick Pouquet

The effect of large scales on the statistics and dynamics of turbulent fluctuations is studied using data from high resolution direct numerical simulations. Three different kinds of forcing, and spatial resolutions ranging from 256^3 to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

A robust energy transfer mechanism is found in nonlinear wave systems, which favours transfers towards modes interacting via non-resonant triads, applicable in meteorology, nonlinear optics and plasma wave turbulence. Transfer efficiency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-03 Miguel D. Bustamante , Brenda Quinn

Magnetic fields, compressibility and turbulence are important factors in many terrestrial and astrophysical processes. While energy dynamics, i.e. how energy is transferred within and between kinetic and magnetic reservoirs, has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith , Wolfram Schmidt , Andrew Christlieb

We study the transition from fluid at rest to turbulence in a rotating water cylinder. We show that the energy, injected at a given height, is transported by inertial wave packets through the fluid volume. These waves propagate at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Itamar Kolvin , Kobi Cohen , Yuval Vardi , Eran Sharon

This paper looks at the two-layer ocean model from a wave turbulence perspective. A symmetric form of the two-layer kinetic equation for Rossby waves is derived using canonical variables, allowing the turbulent cascade of energy between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Katie L Harper , Sergey V Nazarenko , Sergey B Medvedev , Colm Connaughton

We consider the evolution of a family of 2D dispersive turbulence models. The members of this family involve the nonlinear advection of a dynamically active scalar field, the locality of the streamfunction-scalar relation is denoted by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-20 Jai Sukhatme , Leslie M. Smith

The unit of nonlinear interaction in Navier-Stokes and the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations is a wavenumber triad ({\bf k,p,q}) satisfying ${\bf k+p+q=0}$. The expression for the combined energy transfer from two of these wavenumbers to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaurav Dar , Mahendra K. Verma , V. Eswaran

The study of the exchange of momentum and energy between wave components of the turbulent velocity field, the so-called triad interactions, offers a unique way of visualizing and describing turbulence. Most often, this study has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-11 Preben Buchhave , Mengjia Ren , Clara Marika Velte

Turbulence in a system of nonlinearly interacting waves is referred to as wave turbulence. It has been known since seminal work by Kolmogorov, that turbulent dynamics is controlled by a directional energy flux through the wavelength scales.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-07 L. V. Abdurakhimov , I. A. Remizov , A. A. Levchenko , G. V. Kolmakov , Y. V. Lvov

We investigate the scale-locality of cascades of conserved invariants at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers in the ``inertial-inductive range'' of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, where velocity and magnetic field increments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Hussein Aluie , Gregory L. Eyink

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

The energy cascade in turbulence, first statistically described by Richardson (1922) and Kolmogorov (1941), lacked connection to the underlying fluid dynamics. Recent numerical studies of Goto et al. (2017) and Yoneda et al. (2022) revealed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Afifah Maya Iknaningrum , Pen-Yuan Hsu , Tsuyoshi Yoneda , Hirofumi Notsu

The tendency of turbulent flows to produce fine-scale motions from large-scale energy injection is often viewed as a scale-wise cascade of kinetic energy driven by vorticity stretching. This has been recently evaluated by an exact,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-21 Perry L. Johnson

We derive and test a new heuristic theory for third-order structure functions that resolve the forcing scale in the scenario of simultaneous spectral energy transfer to both small and large scales, which can occur naturally in rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jin-Han Xie , Oliver Buhler