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Bistability of the large-scale dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional turbulence

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In many geophysical and astrophysical flows, suppression of fluctuations along one direction of the flow drives a quasi-two-dimensional upscale flux of kinetic energy, leading to the formation of strong vortex condensates at the largest scales. Recent studies have shown that the transition towards this condensate state is hysteretic, giving rise to a limited bistable range in which both the condensate state as well as the regular three-dimensional state can exist at the same parameter values. In this work, we use direct numerical simulations of thin-layer flow to investigate whether this bistable range survives as the domain size and turbulence intensity are increased. By studying the time scales at which rare transitions occur from one state into the other, we find that the bistable range grows as the box size and/or Reynolds number $Re$ are increased, showing that the bistability is neither a finite-size nor a finite- $Re$ effect. We furthermore predict a cross-over from a bimodal regime at low box size, low $Re$ to a regime of pure hysteresis at high box size, high $Re$ , in which any transition from one state to the other is prohibited at any finite time scale.
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hal-03853486 , version 1 (15-11-2022)

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Xander de Wit, Adrian van Kan, Alexandros Ens Alexakis. Bistability of the large-scale dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 939, pp.R2. ⟨10.1017/jfm.2022.209⟩. ⟨hal-03853486⟩
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