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We inquire about the properties of 2d Navier-Stokes turbulence simultaneously forced at small and large scales. The background motivation comes by observational results on atmospheric turbulence. We show that the velocity field is amenable…

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We study the statistics of the vorticity field in two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence with a linear Ekman friction. We show that the small-scale vorticity fluctuations are intermittent, as conjectured by Nam et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boffetta , A. Celani , S. Musacchio , M. Vergassola

We study the dual cascade scenario for two-dimensional turbulence driven by a spectrally localized forcing applied over a finite wavenumber range $[k_\min,k_\max]$ (with $k_\min > 0$) such that the respective energy and enstrophy injection…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chuong V. Tran , John C. Bowman

We discuss the phenomenology of the split energy cascade in a three-dimensional thin fluid layer by mean of high resolution numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. We observe the presence of both an inverse energy cascade at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-11 Stefano Musacchio , Guido Boffetta

The appearance of sharp vorticity gradients in two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence and their influence on the turbulent spectra is considered. We have developed the analog of the vortex line representation as a transformation to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Kuznetsov , V. Naulin , A. H. Nielsen , J. Juul Rasmussen

Using complementary numerical approaches at high resolution, we study the late-time behaviour of an inviscid, incompressible two-dimensional flow on the surface of a sphere. Starting from a random initial vorticity field comprised of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-08 David G. Dritschel , Wanming Qi , J. B. Marston

We present results for the equilibrium statistics and dynamic evolution of moderately large ($n = {\mathcal{O}}(10^2 - 10^3)$) numbers of interacting point vortices on the unit sphere under the constraint of zero mean angular momentum. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-28 David G. Dritschel , Marcello Lucia , Andrew C. Poje

In this paper, the scaling property of the inverse energy cascade and forward enstrophy cascade of the vorticity filed $\omega(x,y)$ in two-dimensional (2D) turbulence is analyzed. This is accomplished by applying a Hilbert-based technique,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-20 H. S. Tan , Y. X. Huang , Jianping Meng

We consider the statistical description of steady state fully developed incompressible fluid turbulence at the inertial range of scales in any number of spatial dimensions. We show that turbulence statistics is scale but not conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Yaron Oz

We present a statistical analysis of the two-point vorticity probability density of the vorticity field generated in the inverse cascade of stationary two-dimensional turbulence.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-12 R. Friedrich , M. Voßkuhle , O. Kamps , M. Wilczek

We study the intermittency properties of the energy and helicity cascades in two 1536^3 direct numerical simulations of helical rotating turbulence. Symmetric and anti-symmetric velocity increments are examined, as well as probability…

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

Statistical characteristics of the Kraichnan direct cascade for two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence are numerically studied (with spatial resolution $8192\times 8192$) in the presence of pumping and viscous-like damping. It is shown…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 E. A. Kuznetsov , E. V. Sereshchenko

We study the direct enstrophy cascade at small spatial scales in statistically stationary forced-dissipated 2D Navier-Stokes equations subject to the Coriolis force in the $\beta$-plane approximation. We provide sufficient conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Yuri Cacchiò , Amirali Hannani , Gigliola Staffilani

We present results from a systematic numerical study of structural properties of an unforced, incompressible, homogeneous, and isotropic three-dimensional turbulent fluid with an initial energy spectrum that develops a cascade of kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chirag Kalelkar

The statistical features of homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional stochastic turbulence are discussed. We derive some rigorous bounds for the mean value of the bulk energy dissipation rate $\mathbb{E} [\varepsilon ]$ and enstrophy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anuj Kumar , Ali Pakzad

As a minimal mathematical model generating cascade analogous to that of the Navier-Stokes turbulence in the inertial range, we propose a one-dimensional partial-differential-equation model that conserves the integral of the squared…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-11 Takeshi Matsumoto , Takashi Sakajo

In this paper, we present an overview of concepts and data concerning inverse cascades of excitation towards scales larger than the forcing scale in a variety of contexts, from two-dimensional fluids and wave turbulence, to geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Annick Pouquet , Raffaele Marino , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg

We study conformal invariance of vorticity clusters in weakly compressible two-dimensional turbulence at low Mach numbers. On the basis of very high resolution direct numerical simulation we demonstrate the scaling invariance of the inverse…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-19 Leonardo Puggioni , Alexei G. Kritsuk , Stefano Musacchio , Guido Boffetta

We report on simulations of two-dimensional turbulence in the inverse energy cascade regime. Focusing on the statistics of Lagrangian tracer particles, scaling behavior of the probability density functions of velocity fluctuations is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Kamps , Rudolf Friedrich

We present results of high-resolution numerical simulations of compressible 2D turbulence forced at intermediate spatial scales with a solenoidal white-in-time external acceleration. A case with an isothermal equation of state, low energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-27 Alexei G. Kritsuk