3 papers
physics.flu-dyn2026
Turbulence Without the Viscous Tilting of Vorticity
Amr Emam, Mostafa Kamal, Perry L. Johnson
Vortex stretching is a fundamental aspect of Navier-Stokes turbulence and is commonly understood in analogy to the stretching of infinitesimal material lines. However, the parallel…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Normality-based analysis of multiscale velocity gradients and energy transfer in direct and large-eddy simulations of isotropic turbulence
Rahul Arun, Mostafa Kamal, Tim Colonius +1
Symmetry-based analyses of multiscale velocity gradients highlight that strain self-amplification (SS) and vortex stretching (VS) drive forward energy transfer in turbulent flows.…
physics.flu-dyn2025
Artificial Bottleneck Effect in Large Eddy Simulations
Mostafa Kamal, Perry L. Johnson
In Navier-Stokes turbulence, a bottleneck effect in the energy cascade near the viscous cutoff causes an overshoot in the energy spectrum, or spectral bump, relative to Kolmogorov'…