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Particle flows of high particle concentration are important in many fields, including chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, energy conversion and powder transport. However, despite decades of research and industrial application,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-06 Frank Shaffer , Balaji Gopalan

This review article examines the complex dynamics of thin-film flows of granular suspensions spreading over rigid solid substrates with free air interfaces. Such systems feature an involved coupling of the free-surface dynamics with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-14 Alice Pelosse , Elisabeth Guazzelli , Matthieu Roché

This fluid dynamics video demonstrate the breaking of axisymmetry in the floating extensional flow of a non-Newtonian fluid.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Roiy Sayag , Samuel S. Pegler , M. Grae Worster

The flow of thin liquid films on inclined or vertical surfaces is one of immense importance, with applications spanning many types of process industries, due to the increased mass and heat transfer brought about by the presence of waves on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-24 Idris Adebayo

To gain a better understanding of the surfaces of planets and small bodies in the solar system, the flow behavior of granular material for various gravity levels is of utmost interest. We performed a set of reduced-gravity measurements to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Paul G. Hofmeister , Jürgen Blum , Daniel Heißelmann

Suspensions of self-propelled particles, such as swimming micro-organisms, are known to undergo complex dynamics as a result of hydrodynamic interactions. This fluid dynamics video presents a numerical simulation of such a suspension, based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 David Saintillan , Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan

This article accompanies the submission of a fluid dynamics video (entry V032) of inertial particle entrainment in a shearless mixing layer for the Gallery of Fluid Motion of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-17 Peter J. Ireland , Martin S. Henke , Lance R. Collins

We theoretically study the behavior of vesicles filled with a liquid of higher density than the surrounding medium, a technique frequently used in experiments. In the presence of gravity, these vesicles sink to the bottom of the container,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Kraus , Udo Seifert , Reinhard Lipowsky

The flow of granular material in a rotating cylinder was simulated by molecular dynamics in two dimensions using spherical as well as nonspherical grains. At very low but constant angular velocity we found that the flow varies irregularly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Poeschel , Volkhard Buchholtz

We used optical microscopy to investigate flows inside water rivulets that were inkjet-printed onto different surfaces and under different ambient conditions. The acquired fluid dynamics videos were submitted to the 2013 Gallery of Fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 Vadim Bromberg , Timothy J. Singler

In this fluid dynamics video, we show the spontaneous random motion of thin filaments of a shear-thickening colloidal dispersions floating on the surface of water. The fluid is a dispersion of fumed silica nanoparticles in a low molecular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 Sunilkumar Khandavalli , Michael Donnell , Jonathan P. Rothstein

This article describes the fluid dynamics video, "A Numerical Simulation of a Plunging Breaking Wave", which was submitted to the gallery of fluid motion at the 2009 APS/DFD conference. The simulation was of a deep-water plunging breaking…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Paul Adams , Kevin George , Mike Stephens , Kyle A. Brucker , Thomas O'Shea , Douglas Dommermuth

We present the results of large scale simulations of 4th order nonlinear partial differential equations of dif- fusion type that are typically encountered when modeling dynamics of thin fluid films on substrates. The simulations are based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-28 Michael-Angelo Y. -H. Lam , Linda J. Cummings , Lou Kondic

This paper contains background information for a fluid dynamics video submitted to the Gallery of Fluid Motion to be held along with the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Oscar Velasco Fuentes

We propose a generic model for thin films and shallow drops of a polar active liquid that have a free surface and are in contact with a solid substrate. The model couples evolution equations for the film height and the local polarization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Sarah Trinschek , Fenna Stegemerten , Karin John , Uwe Thiele

Simulating particle dynamics with high fidelity is crucial for solving real-world interaction and control tasks involving liquids in design, graphics, and robotics. Recently, data-driven approaches, particularly those based on graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Niteesh Midlagajni , Constantin A. Rothkopf

Recently a theoretical scheme explaining the vorticity generation by surface waves in liquids was developed [S. Filatov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 054501 (2016)]. Here we study how a thin (monomolecular) film presented at the surface of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-09 V. M. Parfenyev , S. S. Vergeles , V. V. Lebedev

We consider a thin horizontal layer of a non-magnetic electrolyte containing a bulk solution of salt and carrying an electric current. The layer is bounded by two deformable free surfaces loaded with an insoluble surfactant and is placed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-10 Andrey Pototsky , Sergey A. Suslov

We study the time evolution and driven motion of thin liquid films lying on top of chemical patterns on a substrate. Lattice-Boltzmann and molecular dynamics methods are used for simulations of the flow of microscopic and nanoscopic films,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-04 Fabian Dörfler , Markus Rauscher , Joel Koplik , Jens Harting , S. Dietrich

We report on an investigation of the vertical transport of tracer particles released within a shallow, continuously-forced flow by means of numerical simulations. The investigation is motivated by the shallow flows encountered in many…