Variable energy flux in turbulence

MK Verma - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In three-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence forced at large length scales, a constant
energy flux Π u flows from large scales to intermediate scales, and then to small scales. It is …

An overview of the statistical properties of two-dimensional turbulence in fluids with particles, conducting fluids, fluids with polymer additives, binary-fluid mixtures, and …

R Pandit, D Banerjee, A Bhatnagar, M Brachet… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present an overview of the statistical properties of turbulence in two-dimensional (2D)
fluids. After a brief recapitulation of well-known results for statistically homogeneous and …

Scaling and intermittency in turbulent flows of elastoviscoplastic fluids

MS Abdelgawad, I Cannon, ME Rosti - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Non-Newtonian fluids have a viscosity that varies with applied stress. Elastoviscoplastic
fluids, the elastic, viscous and plastic properties of which are interconnected in a non-trivial …

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent viscoelastic jets

MC Guimarães, N Pimentel, FT Pinho… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of spatially evolving turbulent planar jets of viscoelastic
fluids described by the FENE-P model, such as those consisting of a Newtonian fluid solvent …

Large is different: nonmonotonic behavior of elastic range scaling in polymeric turbulence at large Reynolds and Deborah numbers

ME Rosti, P Perlekar, D Mitra - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
We use direct numerical simulations to study homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flows of
dilute polymer solutions at high Reynolds and Deborah numbers. We find that for small …

Liquid velocity fluctuations and energy spectra in three-dimensional buoyancy-driven bubbly flows

V Pandey, R Ramadugu, P Perlekar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Liquid velocity fluctuations and energy spectra in three-dimensional buoyancy-driven
bubbly flows Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2020), vol. 884, R6, doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.991 journals.cambridge.org/rapids …

Scaling relations in elastic turbulence

V Steinberg - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We report the scaling relations between the exponents of the power-law decays of kinetic
and elastic energies, pressure, as well as torque fluctuations in elastic turbulence (ET). The …

Effect of polymer-stress diffusion in the numerical simulation of elastic turbulence

A Gupta, D Vincenzi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Elastic turbulence is a chaotic regime that emerges in polymer solutions at low Reynolds
numbers. A common way to ensure stability in numerical simulations of polymer solutions is …

Intermittency in the not-so-smooth elastic turbulence

RK Singh, P Perlekar, D Mitra, ME Rosti - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Elastic turbulence is the chaotic fluid motion resulting from elastic instabilities due to the
addition of polymers in small concentrations at very small Reynolds (Re) numbers. Our …

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 …