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We develop a theory describing how a convectively unstable active field in an open flow is transformed into absolutely unstable by local mixing. Presenting the mixing region as one with a locally enhanced effective diffusion allows us to…

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We investigate the rheology, microscopic structure, and dynamics of an industrially relevant dispersion made of cationic surfactant vesicles, from dilute to concentrated conditions. We find that these suspensions exhibit a shear-thinning…

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We present a numerical study of a model of pattern formation following a convective instability in a non-Boussinesq fluid. It is shown that many of the features observed in convection experiments conducted on $CO_{2}$ gas can be reproduced…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Hao-wen Xi , Jorge Vinals , J. D. Gunton

With the Lattice Boltzmann method (using the BGK approximation) we investigate the dynamics of Hele-Shaw flow under conditions corresponding to various experimental systems. We discuss the onset of the instability (dispersion relation), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Grosfils , Jean Pierre Boon

A reaction-diffusion system with mass conservation modelling cell polarity is considered. A range of the parameters is found where the solution converges exponentially to the constant equilibrium and the $\omega$-limit set of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Evangelos Latos , Takashi Suzuki

Flow-induced instabilities are relevant for the storage and dynamics of magnetic fields in stellar convection zones and possibly also in other astrophysical contexts. We continue the study started in the first paper of this series by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Holzwarth , D. Schmitt , M. Schuessler

Simulations show that when a phase-separated binary AB fluid is driven to flow past chemically patterned substrates in a microchannel, the fluid exhibits unique morphological instabilities. For the pattern studied, these instabilities give…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Olga Kuksenok , David Jasnow , Julia Yeomans , Anna C. Balazs

We investigate the convective instability resulting from the dissolution of carbon dioxide (CO$_{2}$) into water in a heterogeneous Hele-Shaw cell utilizing both experimental and numerical approaches. Experiments are conducted in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-14 Rima Benhammadi , PAtrice Meunier , Juan J. Hidalgo

We study the motion of radially driven fluid-immersed particles in a novel Hele-Shaw cell with open boundaries. The initially uniform suspension forms a striped pattern within a specific range of horizontal oscillation frequencies and for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-02 Mahdieh Mohammadi , Maniya Maleki , Adam Wysocki , M. Reza Shaebani

We develop a general classification of the nature of the instabilities yielding spatial organization in open nonideal reaction-diffusion systems, based on linear stability analysis. This encompasses dynamics where chemical species diffuse,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-05 Timur Aslyamov , Francesco Avanzini , Étienne Fodor , Massimiliano Esposito

We discuss stationary concentrations of reactants in an A + B -> 0 reaction under subdiffusion and show that they are described by stationary reaction-diffusion equations with a nonlinear diffusion term. We consider stationary profiles of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Froemberg , Igor M. Sokolov

Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having vanishing long-wavelength density fluctuations similar to perfect crystals but without long-range order. Although its importance in materials science has been brought…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-29 Qun-li Lei , Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Ran Ni

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to describe a variety of phenomena such as pattern formation and front propagation in biological, chemical and physical systems. In the one-dimensional model with a balanced bistable reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Raffaele Folino , Ramón G. Plaza , Marta Strani

Fluids subject to both thermal and compositional variations can undergo doubly diffusive convection when these properties both affect the fluid density and diffuse at different rates. A variety of patterns can arise from these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-04 J. Tumelty , C. Beaume , A. M. Rucklidge

The miscible displacement of a shear-thinning fluid by another of same rheological properties is studied experimentally in a transparent fracture by an optical technique imaging relative concentration distributions. The fracture walls have…

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

Understanding the asymptotic behavior of reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is crucial for modeling processes ranging from species coexistence in ecology to biochemical interactions within cells. In this work, we analyze RD systems in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Carlos Barajas , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Domitilla Del Vecchio

Mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity are useful models for studying cell polarity formation, which is a key process in cell division and differentiation. We rigorously show the existence and stability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Masataka Kuwamura , Takashi Teramoto , Hideo Ikeda

In Hele-Shaw cells, pressure-driven viscous fluid motion between two closely-spaced plates gives rise to a two-dimensional potential flow with zero circulation. Here, we show how the introduction of electromagnetic effects enables the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-11 Kyle I. McKee , John W. M. Bush

Convection-driven porous media flows are common in industrial processes and in nature. The multiscale and multiphase character of these systems and the inherent non-linear flow dynamics make convection in porous media a complex phenomenon.…

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