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Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) is a popular simulation model for investigating hydrodynamic behavior of systems with non-negligible equilibrium thermal fluctuations. DPD employs soft core repulsive interactions between the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Turbulence models attempt to account for unresolved dynamics and diffusion in hydrodynamical simulations. We develop a common framework for two-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, and we implement six models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-28 Matthew D. Goodson , Fabian Heitsch , Karl Eklund , Virginia A. Williams

We study the unique solvability of the discretized Helmholtz problem with Robin boundary conditions using a conforming Galerkin $hp$-finite element method. Well-posedness of the discrete equations is typically investigated by applying a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Maximilian Bernkopf , Stefan Sauter , Céline Torres , Alexander Veit

Standard formulations of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) are unable to resolve mixing at fluid boundaries. We use an error and stability analysis of the generalised SPH equations of motion to prove that this is due to two distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield , O. Agertz

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

We analyse a nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation that corresponds to a viscous shallow water equation (of the Camassa--Holm type) perturbed by a convective, position-dependent noise term. We establish the existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Helge Holden , Kenneth H. Karlsen , Peter H. C. Pang

The convergence of iterative schemes to achieve self-consistency in mean field problems such as the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation is notoriously capricious. It is particularly difficult in regimes where the non-linearities are strong such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Antonio Lacerda-Santos , Xavier Waintal

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

We provide the possible resolution for the century old problem of hydrodynamic shear flows, which are apparently stable in linear analysis but shown to be turbulent in astrophysically observed data and experiments. This mismatch is noticed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Sujit Kumar Nath , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Despite the sphericity of the collapsing stellar core, the birth conditions of neutron stars can be highly non spherical due to a hydrodynamical instability of the shocked accretion flow. Here we report the first laboratory experiment of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-31 Thierry Foglizzo , Frédéric Masset , Jérôme Guilet , Gilles Durand

We address the local well-posedness of the hydrostatic Navier-Stokes equations. These equations, sometimes called reduced Navier-Stokes/Prandtl, appear as a formal limit of the Navier-Stokes system in thin domains, under certain constraints…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-13 David Gerard-Varet , Nader Masmoudi , Vlad Vicol

We present the first cosmological simulations that consistently include nonlinear clustering dark energy evolved as a fluid with the numerical hydrodynamics code Nefertiti. Dark energy perturbations become fully nonlinear on small scales,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Linda Blot , Théo Gayoux , Fabian Schmidt , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Bastien de Ligondes

Using two-dimensional simulations, we numerically explore the dependences of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability upon various physical parameters, including viscosity, width of sheared layer, flow speed, and magnetic field strength. In most cases,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chunlin Tian , Yao Chen

We present the first numerical solutions of the causal, stable relativistic Navier-Stokes equations as formulated by Bemfica, Disconzi, Noronha, and Kovtun (BDNK). For this initial investigation we restrict to plane-symmetric configurations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Alex Pandya , Frans Pretorius

In this work we propose a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a formulation of the convective term including Temam's device for stability. The proposed method has several advantageous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Lorenzo Botti , Daniele Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

We consider the identification of a nonlinear friction law in a one-dimensional damped wave equation from additional boundary measurements. Well-posedness of the governing semilinear hyperbolic system is established via semigroup theory and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler , Nikolai Strogies

Instabilities in rotating detonation are concerned because of their potential influence on the stability of operation. Previous studies on instability of 2-D rotating detonation mainly cared about the one of the contact discontinuity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-17 Qin Li , Pengxin Liu , Hanxin Zhang

We construct and study global solutions for the 3-dimensional incompressible MHD systems with arbitrary small viscosity. In particular, we provide a rigorous justification for the following dynamical phenomenon observed in many contexts:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Ling-Bing He , Li Xu , Pin Yu

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability has been proposed as a mechanism to extract energy from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in flux tubes, and to drive dissipation of this wave energy through turbulence. It is therefore a potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Hillier , Adrian Barker , Iñigo Arregui , Henrik Latter