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Gravity wave turbulence is studied experimentally in a large wave basin where irregular waves are generated unidirectionally. The role of the basin boundary conditions (absorbing or reflecting) and of the forcing properties are…

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

We examine and discuss the spatial evolution of the statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity wave fields, initialised with unidirectional spectral energy distributions, uniformly distributed phases and Rayleigh…

We report on an experimental study of the Faraday instability in a vibrated fluid layer situated over a permeable and rough substrate, consisting either of a flat solid plate or of woven meshes having different openings and wire diameters,…

We study the properties of energy flux in wave turbulence via the Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak (MMT) equation with a quadratic dispersion relation. One of our purposes is to resolve the inter-scale energy flux $P$ in the stationary state to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-02 Alexander Hrabski , Yulin Pan

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Schröttle , D. L. Suhas , N. Harnik , J. Sukhatme

The density fluctuations of quantum vortex lines are measured in a turbulent flow of superfluid He, at temperatures corresponding to superfluid fraction of 16%, 47% and 81%. The probe is a micro-fabricated second sound resonator that allows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Eric Woillez , Jérôme Valentin , Philippe-E Roche

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves problem in a domain $\Omega_t \subset \mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with substantial geometric features. Namely, we consider a variable bottom, smooth obstacles in the flow and a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Gary Moon

Recent X-ray imaging experiments have revealed that multiphase flow through porous media involves transient fluctuations in local occupancy, even under fixed macroscopic steady-state conditions where capillary forces dominate at the pore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alexandra Karabasova , Sajjad Foroughi , Martin J. Blunt , Branko Bijeljic

We develop a weakly nonlinear model to study the spatiotemporal manifestation and the dynamical behavior of surface waves in the presence of an underlying interfacial solitary wave in a two-layer fluid system. We show that interfacial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-29 Shixiao W. Jiang , Gregor Kovačič , Douglas Zhou

This investigation presents evidence of the relation between the dynamics of intense events in small-scale turbulence and the energy cascade. We use the generalised (H\"older) means to track the temporal evolution of intense events of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-18 Alberto Vela-Martín

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

We analyze motility-induced phase separation and bubbly phase separation in a two-dimensional lattice model of self-propelled particles. We compare systems where the dense (liquid) phase has slab and droplet geometries. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Liheng Yao , Robert L. Jack

A statistical relationship between magnetic reconnection, current sheets and intermittent turbulence in the solar wind is reported for the first time using in-situ measurements from the Wind spacecraft at 1 AU. We identify intermittency as…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. T. Osman , W. H. Matthaeus , J. T. Gosling , A. Greco , S. Servidio , B. Hnat , S. C. Chapman , T. D. Phan

We study stationary capillary-gravity waves in a two-dimensional body of water that rests above a flat ocean bed and below vacuum. This system is described by the Euler equations with a free surface. Our main result states that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mats Ehrnström , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

The scattering of inertia-gravity waves by large-scale geostrophic turbulence in a rapidly rotating, strongly stratified fluid leads to the diffusion of wave energy on the constant-frequency cone in wavenumber space. We derive the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Hossein Kafiabad , Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

We investigate the Lagrangian properties of homogeneous, stratified turbulence at different Brunt-V\"ais\"al\"a frequencies.We show increasing vertical confinement of trajectories with increasing stratification strength highlighting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-31 Arun Kumar Varanasi

We report a laboratory investigation of weak turbulence of water surface waves in the gravity-capillary crossover. By using time-space resolved profilometry and a bicoherence analysis, we observe that the nonlinear processes involve 3-wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 Quentin Aubourg , Nicolas Mordant

We have investigated the degree to which turbulence in the Very Local Interstellar Clouds resembles the highly-studied turbulence in the solar corona and the solar wind. The turbulence diagnostics for the Local Clouds are the absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

This is the second part of our work initiating the rigorous study of wave turbulence for water waves equations. We combine energy estimates, normal forms, and probabilistic and combinatorial arguments to complete the construction of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Yu Deng , Alexandru Ionescu , Fabio Pusateri