scholarly journals The direct enstrophy cascade of two-dimensional soap film flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 055105 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Rivera ◽  
H. Aluie ◽  
R. E. Ecke
1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2167-2177 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Vorobieff ◽  
M. Rivera ◽  
R. E. Ecke
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2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. eabc6234
Author(s):  
Alexandre Vilquin ◽  
Julie Jagielka ◽  
Simeon Djambov ◽  
Hugo Herouard ◽  
Patrick Fisher ◽  
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The friction f is the property of wall-bounded flows that sets the pumping cost of a pipeline, the draining capacity of a river, and other variables of practical relevance. For highly turbulent rough-walled pipe flows, f depends solely on the roughness length scale r, and the f − r relation may be expressed by the Strickler empirical scaling f ∝ r1/3. Here, we show experimentally that for soap film flows that are the two-dimensional (2D) equivalent of highly turbulent rough-walled pipe flows, f ∝ r and the f − r relation is not the same in 2D as in 3D. Our findings are beyond the purview of the standard theory of friction but consistent with a competing theory in which f is linked to the turbulent spectrum via the spectral exponent α: In 3D, α = 5/3 and the theory yields f ∝ r1/3; in 2D, α = 3 and the theory yields f ∝ r.


Author(s):  
David Lovett ◽  
John Tilley
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1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. S2-S2 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. D. Weidman ◽  
V. O. Afenchenko ◽  
A. B. Ezersky ◽  
S. V. Kiyashko ◽  
M. I. Rabinovich

2010 ◽  
Vol 656 ◽  
pp. 448-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREAS VALLGREN ◽  
ERIK LINDBORG

High-resolution simulations of forced quasi-geostrophic (QG) turbulence reveal that Charney isotropy develops under a wide range of conditions, and constitutes a preferred state also in β-plane and freely decaying turbulence. There is a clear analogy between two-dimensional and QG turbulence, with a direct enstrophy cascade that is governed by the prediction of Kraichnan (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 47, 1971, p. 525) and an inverse energy cascade following the classic k−5/3 scaling. Furthermore, we find that Charney's prediction of equipartition between the potential and kinetic energy in each of the two horizontal velocity components is approximately fulfilled in the inertial ranges.


2001 ◽  
Vol 442 ◽  
pp. 387-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN-MARC CHOMAZ

Nearly two decades ago, Couder (1981) and Gharib & Derango (1989) used soap films to perform classical hydrodynamics experiments on two-dimensional flows. Recently soap films have received renewed interest and experimental investigations published in the past few years call for a proper analysis of soap film dynamics. In the present paper, we derive the leading-order approximation for the dynamics of a flat soap film under the sole assumption that the typical length scale of the flow parallel to the film surface is large compared to the film thickness. The evolution equations governing the leading-order film thickness, two-dimensional velocities (locally averaged across the film thickness), average surfactant concentration in the interstitial liquid, and surface surfactant concentration are given and compared to similar results from the literature. Then we show that a sufficient condition for the film velocity distribution to comply with the Navier–Stokes equations is that the typical flow velocity be small compared to the Marangoni elastic wave velocity. In that case the thickness variations are slaved to the velocity field in a very specific way that seems consistent with recent experimental observations. When fluid velocities are of the order of the elastic wave speed, we show that the dynamics are generally very specific to a soap film except if the fluid viscosity and the surfactant solubility are neglected. In that case, the compressible Euler equations are recovered and the soap film behaves like a two-dimensional gas with an unusual ratio of specific heat capacities equal to unity.


1999 ◽  
Vol 83 (17) ◽  
pp. 3418-3421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Paret ◽  
Marie-Caroline Jullien ◽  
Patrick Tabeling

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