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We have performed confocal microscopy experiments and computer simulations of colloidal suspensions with moderate volume fraction confined between two quasi-parallel, rough walls [A. Villada-Balbuena et al., Soft Matter, 2022, 18,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-30 Gerhard Jung , Alejandro Villada-Balbuena , Thomas Franosch

Low Reynolds number direct simulations of large populations of hydrodynamically interacting swimming particles confined between planar walls are performed. The results of simulations are compared with a theory that describes dilute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Patrick T. Underhill , Michael D. Graham

We present a simple model for the development of shear layers between parallel flows in confining channels. Such flows are important across a wide range of topics from diffusers, nozzles and ducts to urban air flow and geophysical fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-09 GP Benham , AA Castrejon-Pita , IJ Hewitt , CP Please , RW Style , P Bird

Motivated by the large effect of turbulent drag reduction by minute concentrations of polymers we study the effects of minor viscosity contrasts on the stability of hydrodynamic flows. The key player is a localized region where the energy…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rama Govindarajan , Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia

Using Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations we investigate a dense system of charged colloids exposed to shear flow in a confined (slit-pore) geometry. The equilibrium system at zero flow consists of three, well-pronounced layers with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-28 Sascha Gerloff , Tarlan A. Vezirov , Sabine H. L. Klapp

A two-layer quasi-geostrophic flow is quite insulated from the surrounding fluid, while the layers interact each other by means of the modulation of the interface between them and of the turbulence affecting the layers in the proximity of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Fulvio Crisciani , Renzo Mosetti , Roberto Purini

Aims. Qualitative analysis of key (but yet unappreciated) linear phenomena in stratified hydrodynamic Keplerian flows: (i) the occurrence of a vortex mode, as a consequence of strato-rotational balance, with its transient dynamics; (ii) the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Tevzadze , G. D. Chagelishvili , J. -P. Zahn

We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

This paper is the first part of a two-fold study of mixing, i.e. the formation of layers and upwelling of buoyancy, in axially stratified Taylor--Couette flow, with fixed outer cylinder. Using linear analysis and direct numerical…

A binary system of particles that move in opposite directions under an applied field can exhibit disordered states as well as laned states where the particles organize into oppositely moving high-mobility lanes to reduce collisions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Liquid water can become metastable with respect to its vapor in hydrophobic confinement. The resulting dewetting transitions are often impeded by large kinetic barriers. According to macroscopic theory, such barriers arise from the free…

When turbulent convection interacts with a turbulent shear flow, the cores of convective cells become aligned with the mean current, and these cells (which span the height of the domain) may interact with motions closer to the solid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Andrew P. Grace , David H. Richter

A mechanism of negative compressibility occurring in compressed layered compounds in the presence of a pressure transmitting fluid medium is discussed within a simple model. It takes into account the excluded volume effects and soft…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. V. Vakarin , A. V. Talyzin

We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the traffic of particles flowing in microfluidic obstacle networks. We show that the traffic dynamics is a non-linear process: the particle current does not scale with the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicolas Champagne , Romain Vasseur , Adrien Montourcy , Denis Bartolo

The motion of flexible fibers through structured fluidic environments is ubiquitous in nature and industrial applications. Most often, their dynamics results from the complex interplay between internal elastic stresses, contact forces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-23 Ursy Makanga , Mohammadreza Sepahi , Camille Duprat , Blaise Delmotte

We perform molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the occurrence of inhomogeneous shear flows in soft jammed materials. We use rough walls to impose a simple shear flow and study the athermal motion of jammed assemblies of soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-23 Pinaki Chaudhuri , Ludovic Berthier , Lydéric Bocquet

Recently, Kami\'nski et al. [1] demonstrated that a two-dimensional streamwise waviness with carefully selected amplitude and period can be effectively used in postponement of a flow separation at high Reynolds number which is out of reach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Piotr Kamiński , Artur Tyliszczak , Witold Elsner , Paweł Niegodajew

We explore theoretically the complex dynamics and emergent behaviors of spinning spheres immersed in viscous fluid. The particles are coupled to each-other via the fluid in which they are suspended: each particle disturbs the surrounding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-18 Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

This study investigates the clustering behaviour and surface distributions of buoyant particles at the air-water interface in open-channel turbulent flow, focusing on the interplay between capillary attraction, hydrodynamic drag, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-29 Ana Todorova , Robert K. Niven , Matthias Kramer

The present study deals with the numerical as well as asymptotic analysis of the electrohydrodynamic interaction between two deformable droplets in a confined shear flow. Considering both the phases as leaky dielectric, we have performed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Somnath Santra , Diptendu Sen , Sayan Das , Suman Chakraborty