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New diffuse interface and sharp interface models for soluble and insoluble surfactants fulfilling energy inequalities are introduced. We discuss their relation with the help of asymptotic analysis and present an existence result for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Josef Weber

This document outlines the development of numerous new theoretical approaches to model associating fluids. For a detailed abstract please see page ii.

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-09 B. D. Marshall

There are three fundamental physical processes that gives rise to the morphology of a surface: deposition, surface diffusion and desorption. The characteristics of the interfaces generated by the combination of deposition and surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan R. Sanchez

We describe here our perception of complex systems, of how we feel the different layers of description are important part of a correct complex system simulation. We describe a rough models categorization between rules based and law based,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-18 Pierrick Tranouez , Cyrille Bertelle , Damien Olivier

We make comments on the presentation of Sinton's paper (Microfluidics and Nanofluidics {\bf 1}: 2, 2004) about the microscale flow visualization since the effects of the roughness along the microfabricated wall upon the current macroflow…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kwang-Hua Chu

From the perspective of Morse theory, it is natural to investigate gradient flow trajectories between critical points. In this short note, we explore the minimal hypersurface analogue of this phenomenon and present examples that suggest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jingwen Chen , Pedro Gaspar

In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yinghe Qi , Jiacai Lu , Ruben Scardovelli , Stephane Zaleski , Gretar Tryggvason

Many turbulent flows encountered in nature -- seas, oceans and rivers -- are bounded by a deformable free surface. A question that remained to be fully explored is to what extent the underlying turbulent flow field can be revealed solely by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Amélie Ferran , Ali Semati , Anaïs Rouaud , R. Jason Hearst , Simen Å Ellingsen

The method and results of the first theory description of 4He Compton scattering at nuclear energies is presented, with a focus on figures. An upcoming publication [1] contains details and a comprehensive list of references.

The indicatrix or curvature ellipse and the characteristic curve of a surface in $\mathbf R^4$ are presented, as well as the projective duality connecting them. The characterisation of points in the surfaces as elliptic, parabolic and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-09 J. Basto-Gonçalves

We investigate the gradient flow of the $L^2$ norm of the Riemannian curvature on surfaces. We show long time existence with arbitrary initial data, and exponential convergence of the volume normalized flow to a constant scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Jeffrey Streets

For Legendre curves, we consider surfaces of revolution of frontals. The surface of revolution of a frontal can be considered as a framed base surface. We give the curvatures and basic invariants for surfaces of revolution by using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Masatomo Takahashi , Keisuke Teramoto

We make several improvements on the results of M.-T. Wang in [8] and his joint paper with M.-P. Tsui [7] concerning the long time existence and convergence for solutions of mean curvature flow in higher co-dimension. Both the curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-19 Kuo-Wei Lee , Yng-Ing Lee

In the process of projecting the surface of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface, due to the perspective distortion, the image on the surface of the object will have different degrees of distortion according to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Yuhan Xu , Renqing Luo

In \cite{CMP17} a novel distributional approach has been introduced to provide a well-posed formulation of a class of crystalline mean curvature flows. In this paper, such an approach is extended to the nonlocal setting. Applications…

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Short review of recent results on surface scattering in many-mode waveguides is presented. Main attention is paid to various mechanisms of surface scattering, and to the role of specific long-range correlations in surface profiles.

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-25 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov

We study the regularity of the $p$-Gauss curvature flow with flat side. In our previous paper(arxiv:2403.12292), we obtained the regularity of the interface, namely the boundary of the flat part. In this paper, we study the regularity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Genggeng Huang , Xu-Jia Wang , Yang Zhou

We present a novel approach of modelling surface light scattering in the context of freeform optical design. The model relies on energy conservation and optimal transport theory. For isotropic scattering in cylindrically or rotationally…

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

This paper contributes to the exploration of a recently introduced computational paradigm known as second-order flows, which are characterized by novel dissipative hyperbolic partial differential equations extending accelerated gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Haifan Chen , Guozhi Dong , José A. Iglesias , Wei Liu , Ziqing Xie