Intermittent turbulence in a many-body system

2019/01/31 by Guram Gogia, Wentao Yu, Justin C. Burton
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Dynamics (music) #Energy (signal processing) #Flow (mathematics) #K-epsilon turbulence model #K-omega turbulence model #Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies #Micro and Nano Robotics #Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows #Stochastic modelling #Turbulence #Turbulence kinetic energy #cond-mat.soft #nlin.AO

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.023250

published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023250 (2020)

arxiv created 2020/01/15 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/29 · openalex created_date 2020/06/05 · arxiv updated 2020/07/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This paper shows that stochastic driving and localized disorder are sufficient to give rise to intermittent cascades between distinct energy scales. The dynamics closely resemble transitional turbulence in a pipe flow and can be modeled using stochastic predator-prey equations.

Citations

• Scaling of the Turbulence Transition Threshold in a Pipe
• The Principle of Similitude
• The Onset of Turbulence in Pipe Flow
• Predator-Prey Cycles from Resonant Amplification of Demographic Stochasticity
• Turbulence Transition in Pipe Flow