2,251 research outputs found
Monograph on prospective developments in oceanology
Excerpts from a chapter of a monograph, Oceanology in the Year 2000, which has been prepared for publication at the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oceanology, is presented. The author of this chapter is A. S. Morin, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and director of the oceanology institute. The monograph is said to be the collective work of a group of specialists. Monin views prospective developments of oceanology and oceanology related research and development, technology and expedition research
Monopole Decay in a Variable External Field
The rate of monopole decay into a dyon and an electron in an inhomogeneous
external electric field is calculated by semiclassical methods. Comparison is
made to an earlier result where this quantity was calculated for a constant
field. Experimental and cosmological tests are suggested.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures. v2: typos removed, list of references update
Structural Studies of Decaying Fluid Turbulence: Effect of Initial Conditions
We present results from a systematic numerical study of structural properties
of an unforced, incompressible, homogeneous, and isotropic three-dimensional
turbulent fluid with an initial energy spectrum that develops a cascade of
kinetic energy to large wavenumbers. The results are compared with those from a
recently studied set of power-law initial energy spectra [C. Kalelkar and R.
Pandit, Phys. Rev. E, {\bf 69}, 046304 (2004)] which do not exhibit such a
cascade. Differences are exhibited in plots of vorticity isosurfaces, the
temporal evolution of the kinetic energy-dissipation rate, and the rates of
production of the mean enstrophy along the principal axes of the strain-rate
tensor. A crossover between non-`cascade-type' and `cascade-type' behaviour is
shown numerically for a specific set of initial energy spectra.Comment: 9 pages, 27 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Freely Decaying Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
We study the evolution of magnetic fields in freely decaying
magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. By quasi-linearizing the Navier-Stokes
equation, we solve analytically the induction equation in quasi-normal
approximation. We find that, if the magnetic field is not helical, the magnetic
energy and correlation length evolve in time respectively as E_B \propto
t^{-2(1+p)/(3+p)} and \xi_B \propto t^{2/(3+p)}, where p is the index of
initial power-law spectrum. In the helical case, the magnetic helicity is an
almost conserved quantity and forces the magnetic energy and correlation length
to scale as E_B \propto (log t)^{1/3} t^{-2/3} and \xi_B \propto (log t)^{-1/3}
t^{2/3}.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in PR
Statistics of Pressure Fluctuations in Decaying, Isotropic Turbulence
We present results from a systematic direct-numerical simulation study of
pressure fluctuations in an unforced, incompressible, homogeneous, and
isotropic, three-dimensional turbulent fluid. At cascade completion,
isosurfaces of low pressure are found to be organised as slender filaments,
whereas the predominant isostructures appear sheet-like. We exhibit several new
results, including plots of probability distributions of the spatial
pressure-difference, the pressure-gradient norm, and the eigenvalues of the
pressure-hessian tensor. Plots of the temporal evolution of the mean
pressure-gradient norm, and the mean eigenvalues of the pressure-hessian tensor
are also exhibited. We find the statistically preferred orientations between
the eigenvectors of the pressure-hessian tensor, the pressure-gradient, the
eigenvectors of the strain-rate tensor, the vorticity, and the velocity.
Statistical properties of the non-local part of the pressure-hessian tensor are
also exhibited, for the first time. We present numerical tests (in the viscous
case) of some conjectures of Ohkitani [Phys. Fluids A {\bf 5}, 2570 (1993)] and
Ohkitani and Kishiba [Phys. Fluids {\bf 7}, 411 (1995)] concerning the
pressure-hessian and the strain-rate tensors, for the unforced, incompressible,
three-dimensional Euler equations.Comment: 10 pages, 29 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review
- …