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Volume 115, Number 6, September 2016
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| Article Number | 64004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/64004 | |
| Published online | 04 November 2016 | |
Bifurcations of a large-scale circulation in a quasi-bidimensional turbulent flow
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Université P. et M. Curie, Université Paris Diderot - Paris, France
Received: 6 June 2016
Accepted: 17 October 2016
We report the experimental study of the bifurcations of a large-scale circulation that is formed over a turbulent flow generated by a spatially periodic forcing. After shortly describing how the flow becomes turbulent through a sequence of symmetry-breaking bifurcations, we focus our study on the transitions that occur within the turbulent regime. They are related to changes in the shape of the probability density function (PDF) of the amplitude of the large-scale flow. We discuss the nature of these bifurcations and how to model the shape of the PDF.
PACS: 47.27.-i – Turbulent flows / 47.27.De – Coherent structures
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