Recent developments in theories of inhomogeneous and anisotropic turbulence

JB Marston, SM Tobias - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding inhomogeneous and anisotropic fluid flows requires mathematical and
computational tools that are tailored to such flows and distinct from methods used to …

Coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulence

J Jiménez - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
This article discusses the description of wall-bounded turbulence as a deterministic high-
dimensional dynamical system of interacting coherent structures, defined as eddies with …

Dynamo theories

F Rincon - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2019 - cambridge.org
These lecture notes are based on a tutorial given in 2017 at a plasma physics winter school
in Les Houches. Their aim is to provide a self-contained graduate-student level introduction …

The engine behind (wall) turbulence: perspectives on scale interactions

BJ McKeon - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Known structures and self-sustaining mechanisms of wall turbulence are reviewed and
explored in the context of the scale interactions implied by the nonlinear advective term in …

A statistical state dynamics approach to wall turbulence

BF Farrell, DF Gayme… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper reviews results obtained using statistical state dynamics (SSD) that demonstrate
the benefits of adopting this perspective for understanding turbulence in wall-bounded shear …

Transitional–turbulent spots and turbulent–turbulent spots in boundary layers

X Wu, P Moin, JM Wallace, J Skarda… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Two observations drawn from a thoroughly validated direct numerical simulation of the
canonical spatially develo**, zero-pressure gradient, smooth, flat-plate boundary layer are …

[BOOK][B] Zonal jets: Phenomenology, genesis, and physics

B Galperin, PL Read - 2019 - books.google.com
In recent decades, great progress has been made in our understanding of zonal jets across
many subjects-atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid …

Bispectral mode decomposition of nonlinear flows

OT Schmidt - Nonlinear dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Triadic interactions are the fundamental mechanism of energy transfer in fluid flows. This
work introduces bispectral mode decomposition as a direct means of educing flow structures …

Non-equilibrium three-dimensional boundary layers at moderate Reynolds numbers

A Lozano-Durán, MG Giometto, GI Park… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Non-equilibrium wall turbulence with mean-flow three-dimensionality is ubiquitous in
geophysical and engineering flows. Under these conditions, turbulence may experience a …

Causality of energy-containing eddies in wall turbulence

A Lozano-Durán, HJ Bae, MP Encinar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Turbulent flows in the presence of walls may be apprehended as a collection of momentum-
and energy-containing eddies (energy-eddies), whose sizes differ by many orders of …