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We develop the formulation of turbulence in terms of the functional integral over the phase space configurations of the vortex cells. The phase space consists of Clebsch coordinates at the surface of the vortex cells plus the Lagrange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 A. A. Migdal

We perform a detailed analytical and numerical study of the dynamics of perturbations (vortex/aperiodic mode, Rossby and spiral-density waves) in 2D compressible disks with a Keplerian law of rotation. We draw attention to the process of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bodo , G. Chagelishvili , G. Murante , A. Tevzadze , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari

In this paper we numerically study the behavior of the density power spectrum in turbulent thermally bistable flows. We analyze a set of five three-dimensional simulations where turbulence is randomly driven in Fourier space at a fixed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Adriana Gazol , Jongsoo Kim

The cross-spectral density of coherent Gaussian vortex beams propagating through weak oceanic turbulence is derived from extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and Nikishov spectrum. The evolution of a coherent superposition field composed of…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-02 Hantao Wang , Huajun Zhang , Mingyuan Ren , Jiandong Cai , Yu Zhang

We extend the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability to an expanding background. We study the evolution of a non-viscous irrotational fluid and find that for wavelengths much smaller than the Hubble scale small perturbations of the fluid are unstable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Karim A. Malik , David R. Matravers

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to model the development of turbulence in a quantum fluid confined by a cuboid box potential, and forced by shaking along one axis. We observe the development of isotropic turbulence from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-12 Tommy Z. Fischer , Ashton S. Bradley

The inertial-range properties of quasi-stationary hydrodynamic turbulence under solid-body rotation are studied via high-resolution direct numerical simulations. For strong rotation the nonlinear energy cascade exhibits depletion and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wolf-Christian Mueller , Mark Thiele

Three-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations are performed to investigate properties of the downstream turbulence generated by the interaction between a relativistic shock wave and multiple clumps. We analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-24 Kanji Morikawa , Yutaka Ohira , Takumi Ohmura

Invariance properties of physical systems govern their behavior: energy conservation in turbulence drives a wide distribution of energy among modes, observed in geophysical or astrophysical flows. In ideal hydrodynamics, the role of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni

Superfluid helium consists of two inter-penetrating fluids, a viscous normal fluid and an inviscid superfluid, coupled by a mutual friction. We develop a two-fluid shell model to study superfluid turbulence. We investigate the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. H. Wacks , C. F. Barenghi

We present results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in magnetized, collisionless, and relativistic pair plasma. We find that fluctuations are consistent with the classical $k_\perp^{-5/3}$ magnetic energy spectrum at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Mitchell C. Begelman

It is shown: 1) that in two-dimensional, incompressible, viscous flows the vorticity-area distribution evolves according to an advection-diffusion equation with a negative, time dependent diffusion coefficient and 2) how to use the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 H. W. Capel , R. A. Pasmanter

In this work, we analyze the evolution of four vortex configurations, namely, dipole, plasma, cluster, and lattice, using the two-dimensional mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation, focusing on their dynamical decay and approach to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-02 Shawan K. Jha , Makoto Tsubota , Pankaj K. Mishra

In the context of a dynamical Ginzburg-Landau model it is shown numerically that under the influence of a homogeneous external current J the vortex drifts against the current with velocity $V= -J$ in agreement to earlier analytical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Stratopoulos

In this paper, using Pao's conjecture [Y.-H. Pao, Phys. Fluids 11, 1371 (1968)], we derive expressions for the spectra and fluxes of kinetic energy and enstrophy for two-dimensional (2D) forced turbulence that extend beyond the inertial…

In turbulent flows, energy flux refers to the transfer of kinetic energy across different scales of motion, a concept that is a cornerstone of turbulence theory. The direction of net energy flux is prescribed by the dimensionality of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 Xinyu Si , Filippo De Lillo , Guido Boffetta , Lei Fang

In this work, we construct traveling wave solutions to the two-phase Euler equations, featuring a vortex sheet at the interface between the two phases. The inner phase exhibits a uniform vorticity distribution and may represent a vacuum,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 David Meyer , Christian Seis

We propose a simple model for the evolution of an inviscid vortex sheet in a potential flow in a channel with parallel walls. This model is obtained by augmenting the Birkhoff-Rott equation with a potential field representing the effect of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Bartosz Protas

Vorticity plays a prominent role in the dynamics of incompressible viscous flows. In two-dimensional freely decaying turbulence, after a short transient period, evolution is essentially driven by interactions of viscous vortices, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Thierry Gallay , Yasunori Maekawa