Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows

A Alexakis, L Biferale - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows are characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid
invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are …

Incompressible rayleigh–taylor turbulence

G Boffetta, A Mazzino - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Basic fluid equations are the main ingredient in the development of theories of Rayleigh–
Taylor buoyancy-induced instability. Turbulence arises in the late stage of the instability …

Tuning heat transport via coherent structure manipulation: recent advances in thermal turbulence

KQ Xia, SD Huang, YC Xie, L Zhang - National Science Review, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tuning transport properties through the manipulation of elementary structures has achieved
great success in many areas, such as condensed matter physics. However, the ability to …

Electroconvection in a viscoelastic electrolyte

G Li, LA Archer, DL Koch - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Direct numerical simulations of a liquid electrolyte with polymer additives demonstrate that
viscoelasticity promotes an earlier transition from steady to unsteady electroconvective flow …

Effect of Prandtl number on heat transport enhancement in Rayleigh-Bénard convection under geometrical confinement

KL Chong, S Wagner, M Kaczorowski, O Shishkina… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
We study, using direct numerical simulations, the effect of geometrical confinement on heat
transport and flow structure in Rayleigh-Bénard convection in fluids with different Prandtl …

Polymers in fluid flows

R Benzi, ESC Ching - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The interaction of flexible polymers with fluid flows leads to a number of intriguing
phenomena observed in laboratory experiments, namely drag reduction, elastic turbulence …

The effect of viscoelasticity on the turbulent kinetic energy cascade

PC Valente, CB Da Silva, FT Pinho - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations of statistically steady homogeneous isotropic turbulence in
viscoelastic fluids described by the FENE-P model, such as those laden with polymers, are …

Experimental observation of the elastic range scaling in turbulent flow with polymer additives

YB Zhang, E Bodenschatz, H Xu, HD Xi - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
A minute amount of long-chain flexible polymer dissolved in a turbulent flow can drastically
change flow properties, such as reducing the drag and enhancing mixing. One fundamental …

Turbulent convection in emulsions: the Rayleigh–Bénard configuration

AM Bilondi, N Scapin, L Brandt… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
This study explores heat and turbulent modulation in three-dimensional multiphase
Rayleigh–Bénard convection using direct numerical simulations. Two immiscible fluids with …

Energy spectra in elasto-inertial turbulence

PC Valente, CB da Silva, FT Pinho - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations of statistically steady homogeneous isotropic turbulence in
viscoelastic fluids described by the FENE-P model are presented. Emphasis is given to large …