Quasi-two-dimensional turbulence

A Alexakis - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
Many fluid-dynamical systems met in nature are quasi-two-dimensional: they are
constrained to evolve in approximately two dimensions with little or no variation along the …

Critical transition in fast-rotating turbulence within highly elongated domains

A van Kan, A Alexakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We study rapidly rotating turbulent flows in a highly elongated domain using an asymptotic
expansion at simultaneously low Rossby number, a transition is observed from a state …

Fluctuation-induced transitions in anisotropic two-dimensional turbulence

L Xu, A van Kan, C Liu, E Knobloch - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Two-dimensional (2D) turbulence features an inverse energy cascade that produces large-
scale flow structures such as large-scale vortices (LSVs) and unidirectional jets. We …

Flow state transition induced by emergence of orbiting satellite eddies in two-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection

ZY Gao, X Tao, SD Huang, Y Bao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We report a numerical investigation of a previously noticed but less explored flow state
transition in two-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection. The simulations are …

Spontaneous suppression of inverse energy cascade in instability-driven 2-D turbulence

A van Kan, B Favier, K Julien… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Instabilities of fluid flows often generate turbulence. Using extensive direct numerical
simulations, we study two-dimensional turbulence driven by a wavenumber-localised …

Bistability of the large-scale dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional turbulence

XM De Wit, A Van Kan, A Alexakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
In many geophysical and astrophysical flows, suppression of fluctuations along one
direction of the flow drives a quasi-two-dimensional upscale flux of kinetic energy, leading to …

Energy cascades in rapidly rotating and stratified turbulence within elongated domains

A van Kan, A Alexakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We study forced, rapidly rotating and stably stratified turbulence in an elongated domain
using an asymptotic expansion at simultaneously low Rossby number) the flow becomes …

Phase transitions in anisotropic turbulence

A van Kan - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulence is a widely observed state of fluid flows, characterized by complex, nonlinear
interactions between motions across a broad spectrum of length and time scales. While …

Mitigation of rare events in multistable systems driven by correlated noise

K Mamis, M Farazmand - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We consider rare transitions induced by colored noise excitation in multistable systems. We
show that undesirable transitions can be mitigated by a simple time-delay feedback control if …

Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence

XM de Wit, AJA Guzmán, HJH Clercx… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Using direct numerical simulations of rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection, we explore the
transitions between turbulent states from a three-dimensional (3-D) flow state towards a …