  In this paper, we study the transfer of energy from low to high frequencies
for a family of damped Szeg\"o equations. The cubic Szeg\"o equation has been
introduced as a toy model for a totally non-dispersive degenerate Hamiltonian
equation. It is a completely integrable system which develops growth of high
Sobolev norms, detecting transfer of energy and hence cascades phenomena.
  Here, we consider a two-parameter family of variants of the cubic Szeg\"o
equation and prove that adding a damping term unexpectedly promotes the
existence of turbulent cascades. Furthermore, we give a panorama of the
dynamics for such equations on a six-dimensional submanifold.
