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physics.flu-dyn2026

The spatio-temporal statistical structure of the turbulent dissipation field and its stochastic representation as a Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos

Wandrille Ruffenach, Laurent Chevillard

The present article concerns the stochastic modeling of the turbulent dissipation field and in particular its temporal evolution. To do so, we will be calling for a random distribu…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 2 cited

A spatio-temporal random synthetic turbulent velocity field: The underlying Gaussian structure

Matthieu Chatelain, Júlia Domingues Lemos, Wandrille Ruffenach +5

We develop, simulate and extend an initial proposition by Chaves et al. concerning a random incompressible vector field able to reproduce key ingredients of three-dimensional turbu…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Convective regimes of internally heated steady thermal convection of temperature-dependent viscous fluid

Hisashi Okuda, Shin-ichi Takehiro, Stéphane Labrosse

We study dynamical regimes of thermal convection with temperature-dependent viscosity driven by homogeneous internal heating. Two-dimensional steady-state convective solutions with…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Droplet on a sugar fiber

Stéphane Dorbolo, Floriane Weyer, Alexandre Delory +2

The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force e…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Spontaneous stochasticity and the Armstrong-Vicol passive scalar

W. Ruffenach, E. Simonnet, N. Valade

Spontaneous stochasticity refers to the emergence of intrinsic randomness in deterministic systems under singular limits, a phenomenon conjectured to be fundamental in turbulence.…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Disentangling discrete and continuous spectra of tidally forced internal waves in shear flow

Yohei Onuki, Antoine Venaille

Generation of internal waves driven by barotropic tides over seafloor topography is a central issue in developing mixing and wave drag parameterizations for ocean circulation model…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

A toy model of turbulent shear flow using vortons

Wandrille Ruffenach, Lucas Fery, Bérengère Dubrulle

We introduce a novel toy model for shear flows, exploiting the spatial intermittency and the scale separation between large-scale flows and small-scale structures. The model is hig…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 3 cited

Does small-scale turbulence matter for ice growth in mixed-phase clouds?

G. Sarnitsky, G. Sardina, G. Svensson +3

Representing the glaciation of mixed-phase clouds in terms of the Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process is a challenge for many weather and climate models, which tend to overestimate…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 2 cited

Bubble dynamics in an inclined Hele-Shaw cell

Benjamin Monnet, J. John Soundar Jerome, Valérie Vidal +1

We report experimental results on the dynamics of large bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell subject to various inclination angles with respect to gravity. Low Reynolds number cases are stu…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Topology of shallow-water waves on the rotating sphere

Nicolas Perez, Armand Leclerc, Guillaume Laibe +1

Topological properties of the spectrum of shallow-water waves on a rotating spherical body are established. Particular attention is paid to its spectral flow, i.e. the modes whose…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 4 cited

Numerical simulations of a stochastic dynamics leading to cascades and loss of regularity: applications to fluid turbulence and generation of fractional Gaussian fields

Geoffrey Beck, Charles-Edouard Bréhier, Laurent Chevillard +2

Motivated by the modeling of the spatial structure of the velocity field of three-dimensional turbulent flows, and the phenomenology of cascade phenomena, a linear dynamics has bee…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 3 cited

Lagrangian irreversibility and energy exchanges in rotating-stratified turbulent flows

Sebastian Gallon, Alessandro Sozza, Fabio Feraco +2

Turbulence in stratified and rotating turbulent flows is characterized by an interplay between waves and eddies, resulting in continuous exchanges between potential and kinetic ene…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 4 cited

Statistics of inhomogeneous turbulence in large scale quasi-geostrophic dynamics

Anton Svirsky, Corentin Herbert, Anna Frishman

A remarkable feature of two-dimensional turbulence is the transfer of energy from small to large scales. This process can result in the self-organization of the flow into large, co…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 5 cited

Lagrangian supersaturation fluctuations at the cloud edge

J. Fries, G. Sardina, G. Svensson +2

Evaporation of cloud droplets accelerates when turbulence mixes dry air into the cloud, affecting droplet-size distributions in atmospheric clouds, combustion sprays, and jets of e…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 8 cited

Role of pressure in generation of intense velocity gradients in turbulent flows

Dhawal Buaria, Alain Pumir

We investigate the role of pressure, via its Hessian tensor , on amplification of vorticity and strain-rate and contrast it with other inviscid nonlinear mechanisms. Re…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 6 cited

Two-dimensional turbulence with local interactions: statistics of the condensate

Anton Svirsky, Corentin Herbert, Anna Frishman

Two-dimensional turbulence self-organizes through a process of energy accumulation at large scales, forming a coherent flow termed a condensate. We study the condensate in a model…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 24 cited

Inertia induces strong orientation fluctuations of non-spherical atmospheric particles

T. Bhowmick, J. Seesing, K. Gustavsson +5

The orientation of non-spherical particles in the atmosphere, such as volcanic ash and ice crystals, influences their residence times, and the radiative properties of the atmospher…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 3 cited

How dirt cones form on glaciers: field observation, laboratory experiments and modeling

Marceau Hénot, Vincent J. Langlois, Nicolas Plihon +1

Dirt cones are meter-scale structures encountered at the surface of glaciers, which consist of ice cones covered by a thin layer of ashes, sand or gravel, and which form naturally…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 5 cited

A playground for compressible natural convection with a nearly uniform density

Thierry Alboussiere, Jezabel Curbelo, Fabien Dubuffet +2

In the quest to understand the basic universal features of compressible convection, one would like to disentangle genuine consequences of compression from spatial variations of tra…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 2 cited

Superfluid drain vortex

Wandrille Ruffenach, Luca Galantucci, Carlo F. Barenghi

Drain vortices are among the most common vortices observed in everyday life, yet their physics is complex due to the competition of vorticity's transport and diffusion, and the pre…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 14 cited

Phoresis in cellular flows: from enhanced dispersion to blockage

Romain Volk, Michaël Bourgoin, Charles-Édouard Bréhier +1

In this article, we study numerically the dispersion of colloids in a two-dimensional cellular flow in the presence of an imposed mean salt gradient. Owing to the additional scalar…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 5 cited

Functional renormalisation group approach to shell models of turbulence

Côme Fontaine, Malo Tarpin, Freddy Bouchet +1

Shell models are simplified models of hydrodynamic turbulence, retaining only some essential features of the original equations, such as the non-linearity, symmetries and quadratic…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 5 cited

Fast and Furious dynamo action in the anisotropic dynamo

Franck Plunian, Thierry Alboussière

In the limit of large magnetic Reynolds numbers, it is shown that a smooth differential rotation can lead to fast dynamo action, provided that the electrical conductivity or magnet…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 3 cited

Breaking of internal waves parametrically excited by ageostrophic anticyclonic instability

Yohei Onuki, Sylvain Joubaud, Thierry Dauxois

A gradient-wind balanced flow with an elliptic streamline parametrically excites internal inertia-gravity waves through ageostrophic anticyclonic instability (AAI). This study nume…