Designing turbulence with entangled vortices

W Shen, J Yao, Y Yang - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Matter entanglement is a common chaotic structure found in both quantum and classical
systems. For classical turbulence, viscous vortices are like sinews in fluid flows, storing and …

Hierarchy of coherent vortices in turbulence behind a cylinder

J Fujino, Y Motoori, S Goto - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
To draw concrete pictures of the hierarchy of multiscale coherent vortices in turbulence
behind a cylinder and to reveal their sustaining mechanism, we conduct direct numerical …

Role of internal structures within a vortex in helicity dynamics

W Shen, J Yao, F Hussain, Y Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Helicity, an invariant under ideal-fluid (Euler) evolution, has a topological interpretation in
terms of writhe and twist for a closed vortex tube, but accurately quantifying twist is …

[PDF][PDF] 涡量动力学: 对几个看点的反思

毛峰, 高安康, 吴介之 - 气动研究与试验, 2023 - researchgate.net
涡量动力学是横场的理论基础, 发展得比纵场理论成熟. 由于在这个领域已有若干专著和教科书,
本文只专注于涡量动力学几个值得进一步探讨的方面, 而且仅聚焦于无界流体中的有关理论 …

Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Clumping along the Equatorial Rings of SN1987A and Other Stars

MJ Wadas, WJ White, HJ LeFevre, CC Kuranz… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
An explanation for the origin and number of clumps along the equatorial ring of Supernova
1987A has eluded decades of research. Our linear analysis and hydrodynamic simulations …

Applications of the vortex-surface field to flow visualization, modelling and simulation

Y Yang, S Xiong, Z Lu - Flow, 2023 - cambridge.org
We review the progress on the applications of the vortex-surface field (VSF). The VSF
isosurface is a vortex surface consisting of vortex lines. Based on the generalized Helmholtz …

Evolution of two counter-rotating vortices in a stratified turbulent environment

Y Bin, XIA Yang, Y Yang, R Ni, Y Shi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We conduct direct numerical simulations and study the evolution of a pair of counter-rotating
vortices in a stratified and turbulent environment beyond the first vortex linking (which is due …

Lagrangian dynamics and regularity of the spin Euler equation

Z Meng, Y Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We derive the spin Euler equation for ideal flows by applying the spherical Clebsch
mapping. This equation is based on the spin vector, a unit vector field encoding vortex lines …

Topological transition and helicity conversion of vortex knots and links

W Shen, J Yao, F Hussain, Y Yang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Topological transition and helicity conversion of vortex torus knots and links are studied
using direct numerical simulations of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. We find …

Helicity dynamics in viscous vortex links

J Yao, W Shen, Y Yang, F Hussain - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of two slender Hopf-linked vortex rings at vortex Reynolds numbers ($
Re\equiv\varGamma/\nu,\mathrm {circulation/viscosity} $) $2000 $, $3000 $ and $4000 $ is …