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We study the settling of solid particles within a viscous incompressible fluid contained in a two-dimensional channel, where the mass density of the particles is slightly greater than that of the fluid. The fluid-structure interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-07 Sudeshna Ghosh , John M. Stockie

The computation of multiphase flows presents a subtle energetic equilibrium between potential (i.e., surface) and kinetic energies. The use of traditional interface-capturing schemes provides no control over such a dynamic balance. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Valle , F. X. Trias , J. Castro

We describe a new computational method for the numerically stable particle-based simulation of open-boundary flows, including volume conserving chemical reactions. The novel method is validated for the case of heterogeneous catalysis…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-09 Sebastian Mühlbauer , Severin Strobl , Thorsten Pöschel

In many natural and industrial applications, turbulent flows encompass some form of dispersed particles. Although this type of multiphase turbulent flow is omnipresent, its numerical modeling has proven to be a remarkably challenging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Xander M. de Wit , Rudie P. J. Kunnen , Herman J. H. Clercx , Federico Toschi

This paper proposes a data-driven learning framework for identifying governing laws of generalized diffusions with non-gradient components. By combining energy dissipation laws with a physically consistent penalty and first-moment…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Fanze Kong , Chen-Chih Lai , Yubin Lu

In this note we aim at a characterisation of the discretisation of viscous dissipation which allows to distinguish `physical' (also frequently called `molecular', or `resolved') from `numerical' dissipation in DG-discretised incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Gert Lube , Philipp W. Schroeder

Subsurface flows are commonly modeled by advection-diffusion equations. Insufficient measurements or uncertain material procurement may be accounted for by random coefficients. To represent, for example, transitions in heterogeneous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein

We present a finite element discretization of a non-linear diffusion equation used in the field of critical phenomena and, more recently, in the context of Dynamic Density Functional Theory. The discretized equation preserves the structure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. de la Torre , Pep Español , Aleksandar Donev

We present a numerical method that consistently implements thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions to the motion of Brownian particles dispersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, the thermal fluctuations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Iwashita , Y. Nakayama , R. Yamamoto

Discrete particle simulations are widely used to study large-scale particulate flows in complex geometries where particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions require an adequate representation but the computational cost has to be kept…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde

We have studied the gradient-flow equations in information geometry from a point-particle perspective. Based on the motion of a null (or light-like) particle in a curved space, we have rederived the Hamiltonians which describe the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Tatsuaki Wada , Antonio M. Scarfone

We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Harald Garcke , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang

We present a numerical scheme for simulating the dynamics of Brownian particles suspended in a fluid. The motion of the particles is tracked by the Langevin equation, whereas the host fluid flow is analyzed by using the lattice Boltzmann…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Hiroaki Yoshida , Tomoyuki Kinjo , Hitoshi Washizu

Numerical simulation of compressible fluid flows is performed using the Euler equations. They include the scalar advection equation for the density, the vector advection equation for the velocity and a given pressure dependence on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Petr N. Vabishchevich

Over the past few decades, there has been substantial interest in evolution equations that involving a fractional-order derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time, due to their many successful applications in engineering, physics, biology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

The hydrodynamics of viscoelastic materials (for example polymer melts and solutions) presents interesting and complex phenomena, for example instabilities and turbulent flow at very low Reynolds numbers due to normal stress effects and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ellak Somfai , Alexander N. Morozov , Wim van Saarloos

Discrete element method simulations of confined bidisperse granular shear flows elucidate the balance between diffusion and segregation that can lead to either mixed or segregated states, depending on confining pressure. Results indicate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-24 Alexander M. Fry , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

We introduce and implement a method to compute stationary states of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations on metric graphs. Stationary states are obtained as local minimizers of the nonlinear Schr\''odinger energy at fixed mass. Our method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Christophe Besse , Romain Duboscq , Stefan Le Coz

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

Accurate and efficient prediction of multi-scale flows remains a formidable challenge. Constructing theoretical models and numerical methods often involves the design and optimization of parameters. While gradient descent methods have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tianbai Xiao