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Spiral waves are ubiquitous signatures of non equilibrium dynamics, appearing across chemical, biological, and active systems. Yet, in many living systems these waves unfold on curved and folded surfaces whose geometry has rarely been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-19 Varun Venkatesh , Farzan Vafa , Martin Cramer Pedersen , Amin Doostmohammadi

This paper studies the dynamics of an incompressible fluid driven by gravity and capillarity forces in a porous medium. The main interest is the stabilization of the fluid in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable situations where the fluid lays on top…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchon , Stefano Scrobogna

A detailed analysis of the dynamics of unstable modes present in the linearized Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in the presence of a gravitational field is carried out. The transition between the non-dissipative and dissipative regimes is…

The two-dimensional oscillatory crack instability, experimentally observed in a class of brittle materials under strongly dynamic conditions, has been recently reproduced by a nonlinear phase-field fracture theory. Here we highlight the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-03 Yuri Lubomirsky , Chih-Hung Chen , Alain Karma , Eran Bouchbinder

We have investigated how the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of a filament made of a 41K-87Rb self-bound mixture may lead to an array of identical quantum droplets, with typical breaking times which are shorter than the lifetime of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-05 Francesco Ancilotto , Manuel Barranco , Marti Pi

Plasma balls and rings emerge as fluid holographic duals of black holes and black rings in the hydrodynamic/gravity correspondence for the Scherk-Schwarz AdS system. Recently, plasma balls spinning above a critical rotation were found to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-22 Vitor Cardoso , Oscar J. C. Dias , Jorge V. Rocha

Primary instability of the lid-driven flow in a cube is studied by a comprehensive linear stability approach. Two cases, in which the lid moves parallel to the cube sidewall or parallel to the diagonal plane, are considered. The SIMPLE…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-06 A. Y. Gelfgat

Fingering instabilities akin to the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in fluids have been observed in a binary granular system consisting of dense and small particles layered on top of lighter and larger particles, when the system is…

In multicomponent membranes, internal scalar fields may couple to membrane curvature, thus renormalizing the membrane elastic constants and destabilizing the flat membranes. Here, a general elasticity theory of membranes is considered that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-07 S. Alex Rautu

Assessing the stability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes requires a study of linearized gravitational perturbations around such backgrounds. We study perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes with equal angular momenta in an odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti , Harvey S. Reall

We investigate the connection between thermodynamic phase transitions and quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in charged black holes with a positive curvature constant, within the framework of $F(R)$-Euler-Heisenberg gravity. Nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Zi-Yu Hou , Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge

We numerically calculate the growth and saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability caused by the deceleration of relativistic outflows with Lorentz factor {\Gamma} = 10, 30, and 100. The instability generates turbulence whose scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul C. Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

We study the linear response of relativistic superfluids with a non-zero superfluid velocity. For sufficiently large superflow, an instability develops via the crossing of a pole of the retarded Green's functions to the upper half complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Daniel Areán , Blaise Goutéraux , Eric Mefford , Filippo Sottovia

Considering a nonlinear charged black hole as a thermodynamics system, we study the geometric description of its phase transitions. Using the formalism of geometrothermodynamics we show that the geometry of the space of thermodynamic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Gustavo Arciniega , Alberto Sánchez

We study flow driven through a finite-length planar rigid channel by a fixed upstream flux, where a segment of one wall is replaced by a pre-stressed elastic beam subject to uniform external pressure. The steady and unsteady systems are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-24 Danyang Wang , Xiaoyu Luo , Peter S. Stewart

The Einstein equations describing the black-brane dynamics both in Minkowski and AdS background were recently recast in the form of coupled diffusion equations in the large-$D$(imension) limit. Using such results in the literature, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Umpei Miyamoto

We consider the free boundary problem for two layers of immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The effect of surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang , Ian Tice

In this paper, we study the influence of string fluids on the extended thermodynamic structure and microscopic interactions of Hayward black holes by employing thermodynamic geometry as an empirical tool. Using the novel equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Ankit Anand , Saeed Noori Gashti , Aditya Singh

The alternative approach to the displacement of gas/liquid equilibrium is developed on the basis of the Clapeyron equation. The phase transition in the system with well-established properties is taken as a reference process to search for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Vladimir Kh. Dobruskin