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physics.flu-dyn2026

Magnetic Dynamo Driven by Inertial Waves

A. Mishra, G. Mamatsashvili, M. Le Bars +2

We demonstrate, by studying precession-driven flows, that inertial wave hydrodynamic turbulence can drive a robust magnetic dynamo action. Motivated by the stronger damping of larg…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Relative dispersion and eddy diffusivity in laboratory experiments of -plane turbulence

Daphné Lemasquerier, Matthew Burke, Benjamin Favier +2

We present the first experimental measures of relative dispersion and turbulent diffusion in rapidly-rotating turbulence in the zonostrophic regime, i.e., in the presence of instan…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 8 cited

Interaction between forced and natural convection in a thin cylindrical fluid layer at low Prandtl number

Florian Rein, Laure Carénini, Florian Fichot +2

Motivated by nuclear safety issues, we study the heat transfers in a thin cylindrical fluid layer with imposed fluxes at the bottom and top surfaces (not necessarily equal) and a f…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 16 cited

Effects of particle size and background rotation on the settling of particle clouds

Quentin Kriaa, Eliot Subra, Benjamin Favier +1

We experimentally investigate the behaviour of instantaneous localised releases of heavy particles falling as turbulent clouds in quiescent water, both with and without background…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 26 cited

Parametric instability and wave turbulence driven by tidal excitation of internal waves

Thomas Le Reun, Benjamin Favier, Michael Le Bars

We investigate the stability of stratified fluid layers undergoing homogeneous and periodic tidal deformation. We first introduce a local model which allows to study velocity and b…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 29 cited

The linear instability of the stratified plane Couette flow

Giulio Facchini, Benjamin Favier, Patrice Le Gal +2

We present the stability analysis of a plane Couette flow which is stably stratified in the vertical direction orthogonally to the horizontal shear. Interest in such a flow comes f…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 48 cited

Finite-size effects in parametric subharmonic instability

Baptiste Bourget, Hélène Scolan, Thierry Dauxois +3

The parametric subharmonic instability in stratified fluids depends on the frequency and the amplitude of the primary plane wave. In this paper, we present experimental and numeric…

physics.flu-dyn2013★ 25 cited

Spontaneous generation of inertial waves from boundary turbulence in a librating sphere

Alban Sauret, David Cébron, Michael Le Bars

In this work, we report the excitation of inertial waves in a librating sphere even for libration frequencies where these waves are not directly forced. This spontaneous generation…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 34 cited

Libration driven elliptical instability

David Cébron, Michael Le Bars, J. Noir +1

The elliptical instability is a generic instability which takes place in any rotating flow whose streamlines are elliptically deformed. Up to now, it has been widely studied in the…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 41 cited

The Universal Aspect Ratio of Vortices in Rotating Stratifi?ed Flows: Experiments and Observations

Oriane Aubert, Michael Le Bars, Patrice Le Gal +1

We validate a new law for the aspect ratio of vortices in a rotating, stratified flow, where and are the vertical half-height and horizontal length scale of the vo…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 42 cited

Fluid flows in a librating cylinder

Alban Sauret, David Cébron, Michael Le Bars +1

The flow in a cylinder driven by time harmonic oscillations of the rotation rate, called longitudinal librations, is investigated. Using a theoretical approach and axisymmetric num…