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In the corresponding fluid dynamics video, created for the APS DFD 2012 Gallery of Fluid Motion, we show high-speed videos of 2D granular impact experiments, where an intruder strikes a collection of bidisperse photoelastic disks from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 Abram H. Clark , R. P. Behringer

Two-dimensional Molecular Dynamics simulations are used to model the free surface flow of spheres falling down an inclined chute. The interaction between the particles in our model is assumed to be subjected to the Hertzian contact force…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Thorsten Poeschel

Vertical oscillation of a fluid interface above a critical amplitude excites the Faraday instability, typically manifesting itself as a standing wave pattern. Fundamentally, the phenomenon is an example of parametric resonance. At high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-10 William Batson , Farzam Zoueshtiagh , Ranga Narayanan

This research introduces a new drop fluidics, which uses a deformable and stretchable elastomeric film as the platform, instead of the commonly used rigid supports. Such a soft film impregnated with magnetic particles can be modulated with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-01 Saheli Biswas , Yves Pomeau , Manoj K. Chaudhury

This short article describes flow parameters, numerical method, and animations of the fluid dynamics video "LES of an Inclined Jet into a Supersonic Turbulent Crossflow"…

A microscopic, driven lattice gas model is proposed for the dynamics and spatio-temporal fluctuations of the precursor film observed in spreading experiments. Matter is transported both by holes and particles, and the distribution of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas B. Abraham , Rodolfo Cuerno , Esteban Moro

A gradient dynamics model based on an extended interface Hamiltonian is presented that is able to describe the dynamics of structuring processes in thin films of liquid mixtures, solutions and suspensions on solid substrates including…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-13 Uwe Thiele , Desislava V. Todorova , Hender Lopez

We consider the gravity-driven flow of a perfect dielectric, viscous, thin liquid film, wetting a flat substrate inclined at a non-zero angle to the horizontal. The dynamics of the thin film is influenced by an electric field which is set…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-30 Ruben J Tomlin , Radu Cimpeanu , Demetrios T Papageorgiou

This fluid dynamics video presents three-dimensional kinetic simulations of the dynamics in suspensions of oxytactic bacteria confined in thin liquid film surrounded by air. At the initial time, the bacterial concentration is uniform and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-17 Barath Ezhilan , Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan , David Saintillan

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study fluidization of a vertically vibrated, three-dimensional shallow granular layer. As the container acceleration is increased above g, the granular temperature and root mean square particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-01 Jennifer Kreft , Matthias Schroeter , Jack B. Swift , Harry L. Swinney

Gravity-driven thick granular flows are relevant to many industrial and geophysical processes. In particular, it is important to know and understand the particle velocity distributions as we get deeper into the flow from the free surface.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-15 Etien Martinez , Oscar Sotolongo-Costa , Alfo Jose Batista-Leyva , Ernesto Altshuler

It is known from both experiments and molecular dynamics simulations that chemically patterning a solid surface has an effect on the flow of an adjacent liquid. This fact is in stark contrast with predictions of classical fluid mechanics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-17 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

This is the companion paper of the Fluid Dynamics Video "The short life of a drop" where it is argued that the geometry of the sediment of a drop of water with particles in suspension can be correlated with the dynamics of the fluid inside…

We investigate the effect of gravity on the spreading of droplets of yield stress fluids, by performing both microgravity experiments (in a drop tower) and experiments under terrestrial gravity. We investigate the dependence of the final…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-08 Linnea Heitmeier , Olfa D'Angelo , Maziyar Jalaal , Thomas Voigtmann

Molecular dynamics simulations of miscible and partially miscible binary Lennard--Jones mixtures are used to study the dynamics and thermodynamics of vapor condensation onto a non-volatile liquid drop in the canonical ensemble. When the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Levent Inci , Richard. K. Bowles

Around 1930 Ludwig Prandtl and his colleagues O. Tietjens and W. M\"uller published two films with visualizations of flows around surface piercing obstacles to illustrate the unsteady process of flow separation. These visualizations were…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-18 Christian Willert , Jürgen Kompenhans

We consider axisymmetric traveling waves propagating on the gravity-driven flow of a liquid down a vertical fibre. Our starting point is the two-equation model for the flow derived in the study by Ruyer-Quil \emph{et al.} [\emph{J. Fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-02 Christian Ruyer-Quil , Serafim Kalliadasis

We introduce a system of shallow water-type equations to model laboratory experiments of particle-laden flows. We explore homogeneous liquid-solid suspensions of fine, non-cohesive, monodisperse glass beads which propagate as an equivalent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-11 Andrea Bondesan , Laurence Girolami , François James , Loïc Rousseau

This study investigates the nonlinear stability and dynamics of gravity-driven viscous films on a vertical rotating cylinder, considering both outer and inner surface flows with slip conditions at the cylinder wall. We develop an asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Souradip Chattopadhyay , Amar K. Gaonkar , Hangjie Ji

When do droplets merge and when do they bounce? Over the last 10 years, advances in experimental techniques, such as high-speed cameras, have enabled us to make important discoveries on how the dynamics of thin gas films can influence the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Alexis Tzelilis