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Taylor diffusion (or dispersion) refers to a phenomenon discovered experimentally by Taylor in the 1950s where a solute dropped into a pipe with a background shear flow experiences diffusion at a rate proportional to $1/\nu$, which is much…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Margaret Beck , Osman Chaudhary , C. Eugene Wayne

The shear viscosity in the dilute regime of a model for confined granular matter is studied by simulations and kinetic theory. The model consists on projecting into two dimensions the motion of vibrofluidized granular matter in shallow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rodrigo Soto , Dino Risso , Ricardo Brito

We image the flow of a nearly random close packed, hard-sphere colloidal suspension (a `paste') in a square capillary using confocal microscopy. The flow consists of a `plug' in the center while shear occurs localized adjacent to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucio Isa , Rut Besseling , Wilson C K Poon

Active particles often swim in confined environments. The transport mechanisms, especially the global one as reflected by the Taylor dispersion model, are of great practical interest to various applications. For active dispersion process in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Weiquan Jiang , Guoqian Chen

Strain in sheared dense granular material is often localized in a narrow region called shear band. Recent experiments in a modified Couette cell provided localized shear flow in the bulk away from the confining walls. The non-trivial shape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Unger , J. Torok , J. Kertesz , D. E. Wolf

The short-time motion of Brownian particles in an incompressible Newtonian fluid under shear, in which the fluid inertia becomes important, was investigated by direct numerical simulation of particulate flows. Three-dimensional simulations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Takuya Iwashita , Ryoichi Yamamoto

In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

We perform a two-dimensional molecular-dynamics study of a model for sheared bidisperse granular systems under conditions of simple shear and Poiseuille flow. We propose a mechanism for particle-size segregation based on the observation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Sitangshu Bikas Santra , Stefan Schwarzer , Hans Herrmann

We numerically investigate the self-diffusion coefficient and correlation length of the rigid clusters (i.e., the typical size of the collective motions) in sheared soft athermal particles. Here we find that the rheological flow curves on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Takeshi Kawasaki

We discuss in this work the validity of the theoretical solution of the nonlinear Couette flow for a granular impurity obtained in a recent work [preprint arXiv:0802.0526], in the range of large inelasticity and shear rate. We show there is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Francisco Vega Reyes , Vicente Garzo , Andres Santos

Spreading uniform and dense layers is of paramount importance to creating high-quality components using powder bed additive manufacturing (AM). Blade-like tools are often employed for spreading powder metal feedstocks, especially in laser…

Motivated by the paper by D. Gerard-Varet and E. Dormy [JAMS, 2010] about the linear ill-posedness for the Prandtl equations around a shear flow with exponential decay in normal variable, and the recent study of well-posedness on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Cheng-Jie Liu , Tong Yang

We investigate experimentally granular piles exhibiting steady surface flow. Below the surface flow, it has been believed exisitence of a `frozen' bulk region, but our results show absence of such a frozen bulk. We report here that even the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Shio Inagaki , Naoko Nakagawa , Satoru Nasuno

This paper investigates enhanced dissipation for a passive scalar advected by "very rough" horizontal shear flows, described by an advection-diffusion equation on the 2D torus. The authors extend results of Galeati and Gubinelli (2023) to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Marco Romito , Leonardo Roveri

Deep learning is an increasingly popular approach for inverting surface wave dispersion curves to obtain Vs profiles. However, its generalizability is constrained by the depth and velocity scales of training data. We propose a unified deep…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Tianjian Cheng , Hongrui Xu , Jiayu Feng , Xiongyu Hu , Chaofan Yao

Extreme dissipation events in turbulent flows are rare, but they can be orders of magnitude stronger than the mean dissipation rate. Despite its importance in many small-scale physical processes, there is presently no accurate theory or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-09 Gerrit E. Elsinga , Takashi Ishihara , J. C. R. Hunt

We carry out theoretical analysis, Monte Carlo simulations and Machine Learning analysis to quantify microscopic rearrangements of dilute dispersions of spherical colloidal particles from coherent scattering intensity. Both monodisperse and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-23 Lijie Ding , Yihao Chen , Changwoo Do

Understanding how granular materials respond to shear stress remains a central challenge in soft matter physics. We report direct observations of persistent granular convection in the bulk shear zones of spherical particle packings -- a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Mehran Erfanifam , Mahnoush Madani , Reza Shaebani , Maniya Maleki

An approximate dispersion relation is derived and presented for linear surface waves atop a shear current whose magnitude and direction can vary arbitrarily with depth. The approximation, derived to first order of deviation from potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-21 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Yan Li

We study the scale dependence of effective diffusion of fluid tracers, specifically, its dependence on the P\'{e}clet number, a dimensionless parameter of the ratio between advection and molecular diffusion. Here, we address the case that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-13 Yohei Kono , Yoshihiko Susuki , Takashi Hikihara