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A reduced dynamical model is derived which describes the interaction of weak inertia-gravity waves with nonlinear vortical motion in the context of rotating shallow-water flow. The formal scaling assumptions are (i) that there is a…

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Drift instabilities contribute to the formation of edge turbulence and zonal flows, and thus the anomalous transport in tokamaks. Experiments often found micro-scale tur- bulence strongly coupled with large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

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Inhomogeneous drift-wave turbulence can be modeled as an effective plasma where drift waves act as quantumlike particles and the zonal-flow velocity serves as a collective field through which they interact. This effective plasma can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Hongxuan Zhu , Yao Zhou , D. E. Ruiz , I. Y. Dodin

The purpose of this article is numerical verification of the thory of weak turbulence. We performed numerical simulation of an ensemble of nonlinearly interacting free gravity waves (swell) by two different methods: solution of primordial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander O. Korotkevich , Andrei N. Pushkarev , Don Resio , Vladimir E. Zakharov

We demonstrate theoretically and numerically the zonal-flow/drift-wave feedback mechanism for the LH transition in an idealised model of plasma turbulence driven by a small scale instability. Zonal flows are generated by a secondary…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-17 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

Detailed computations of tokamak edge turbulence in three dimensional, globally consistent flux tube geometry show an inhibition of the standard scenario in which zonal ExB flows generated by the turbulence should lead to transport barrier…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Bruce D. Scott

The dynamic conformal transformation method has been generalized for the first time to numerically simulate the capillary wave turbulence of a liquid surface in the plane symmetric anisotropic geometry. The model is strongly nonlinear and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-20 Evgeny Kochurin

Zonal flows are well known to arise spontaneously out of turbulence. We show that for statistically averaged equations of the stochastically forced generalized Hasegawa-Mima model, steady-state zonal flows and inhomogeneous turbulence fit…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Jeffrey B. Parker , John A. Krommes

We derive a model equation describing electrostatic plasma turbulence in general (inhomogeneous and curved) magnetic fields by analysing the effect of curved geometry on the ion fluid polarization drift velocity. The derived nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

General problem of plasma turbulence can be formulated as advection of potential vorticity (PV), which handles flow self-organization, coupled to a number of other fields, whose gradients provide free energy sources. Therefore, focusing on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Özgür D. Gürcan

The complex interactions of localized vortices with waves is investigated using a model of point vortices in the presence of a transverse or longitudinal wave. This simple model shows a rich dynamical behavior including oscillations of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Xavier Leoncini , Alberto Verga

We study the dynamics of periodic wave trains in reaction-diffusion systems on the real line under large, fully nonlocalized modulations. We prove that solutions with nearby initial data converge, at an enhanced diffusive rate, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Joannis Alexopoulos , Björn de Rijk

In supersonic and hypersonic flows, the near-wall density variation due to wall cooling poses a challenge for accurately predicting the near-wall velocity and temperature profiles using classical eddy viscosity turbulence models.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-19 Zifei Yin

The paper considers dynamics in the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima equation, basic to several different phenomena. In each of them, the generation of poloidal/zonal flow is important. The paper suggests a possibility to generate such flows (which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-25 Alexander M. Balk

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

Zonal flows and turbulence spreading play important roles in magnetic fusion plasma confinement, yet their coupling mechanisms remain elusive. Using global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations, we show that turbulence spreading transports…

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We present turbulent properties of electrostatic drift waves in a nonuniform collisional plasma composed of magnetised electrons and ions in the presence of immobile dust particles. For this purpose, we derive a pair of nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 A. Kendl , P. K. Shukla

The purpose of this article is numerical verification of the theory of weak turbulence. We performed numerical simulation of an ensemble of nonlinearly interacting free gravity waves (swell) by two different methods: solution of primordial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-04 A. O. Korotkevich , A. Pushkarev , D. Resio , V. E. Zakharov

We argue that the physics of interacting Kelvin Waves (KWs) is highly non-trivial and cannot be understood on the basis of pure dimensional reasoning. A consistent theory of KW turbulence in superfluids should be based upon explicit…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-29 Jason Laurie , Victor S. L'vov , Sergey Nazarenko , Oleksii Rudenko