Experimental evidence of random shock-wave intermittency

G Ricard, E Falcon - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We report the experimental observation of intermittency in a regime dominated by random
shock waves on the surface of a fluid. We achieved such a nondispersive surface-wave field …

[HTML][HTML] Precession resonance of Rossby wave triads and the generation of low-frequency atmospheric oscillations

B Raphaldini, PS Peixoto, ASW Teruya, CFM Raupp… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere is characterized by a wide spectrum of oscillations,
ranging from hourly to interdecadal and beyond. The low-frequency component of the …

Self-similar subgrid-scale models for inertial range turbulence and accurate measurements of intermittency

L Biferale, F Bonaccorso, M Buzzicotti, KP Iyer - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
A class of spectral subgrid models based on a self-similar and reversible closure is studied
with the aim to minimize the impact of subgrid scales on the inertial range of fully developed …

Universal functions for Burgers turbulence

S Alam, PK Sahu, MK Verma - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
For the steady state of Burgers turbulence, Saffman [in Topics in Nonlinear Physics
(Springer, Berlin, 1968), pp. 485–614] derived analytical expressions for the second-order …

A new mechanism for Maunder-like solar minima: Phase synchronization dynamics in a simple nonlinear oscillator of magnetohydrodynamic Rossby waves

B Raphaldini, E Medeiros, CFM Raupp… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The long-term solar cycle variability and Grand solar minima remain open questions from a
theoretical point of view. Recently, a growing basis of evidence points out to the role of the …

Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water

J Thomas, L Ding - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study the inverse flux of waves in one of the simplest geophysical fluid dynamics models:
one-dimensional rotating shallow water equations. Based on direct numerical integration of …

Geophysical turbulence dominated by inertia–gravity waves

J Thomas, R Yamada - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Recent evidence from both oceanic observations and global-scale ocean model simulations
indicate the existence of regions where low-mode internal tidal energy dominates over that …

Poles, shocks, and tygers: The time-reversible Burgers equation

A Das, P Dutta, V Shukla - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We construct a formally time-reversible, one-dimensional forced Burgers equation by
imposing a global constraint of energy conservation, wherein the constant viscosity is …

[HTML][HTML] Single-scale two-dimensional-three-component generalized-Beltrami-flow solutions of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

J Chai, T Wu, L Fang - Physics Letters A, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Generalized-Beltrami-flow (GBF) solutions, which are exact solutions of
incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), are still rare. Most existing GBF solutions …

Dynamically relevant recurrent flows obtained via a nonlinear recurrence function from two-dimensional turbulence

EM Redfern, AL Lazer, D Lucas - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
This paper demonstrates the efficient extraction of unstable recurrent flows from two-
dimensional turbulence by using nonlinear triads to diagnose recurrence in direct numerical …