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The study of circular orbits is fundamental in gravitational physics, yet their definition in dynamical spacetimes remains challenging due to the lack of temporal symmetry. In this work, we establish a unified framework by commencing from…

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Spiral waves in active media react to small perturbations as particle-like objects. Here we apply the asymptotic theory to the interaction of spiral waves with a localized inhomogeneity, which leads to a novel prediction: drift of the…

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We conduct an analysis of a stochastic hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory, which is a Langevin equation with a memory kernel that describes the dynamics of a walking droplet (or "walker") subjected to a repulsive singular potential and random…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Hung D. Nguyen , Anand U. Oza

Inspired by the observation of intricate and beautifully dynamic patterns generated by food coloring on clean glass slides, we have investigated the behavior of propylene glycol and water droplets on high energy surfaces. In this fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-16 Nate J Cira , Manu Prakash

This study investigates the different novel forms of the dynamical equations of a particle orbiting a rotating asteroid and the effective potential, the Jacobi integral, etc. on different manifolds. Nine new forms of the dynamical equations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu Jiang , Hexi Baoyin

We investigate the particle trajectories in a constant vorticity shallow water flow over a flat bed as periodic waves propagate on the water's free surface. Within the framework of small amplitude waves, we find the solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

In recent decades novel solid substrates have been designed which change their wettability in response to light or an electrostatic field. Here, we investigate a droplet on substrates with oscillating uniform wettability by varying minimium…

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In this paper, we present a theoretical, experimental, and numerical study of the dynamics of cavitation bubbles inside a droplet suspended in another host fluid. On the theoretical side, we provided a modified Rayleigh collapse time and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Shuai Li , Zhesheng Zhao , A-Man Zhang , Rui Han

We study the closed Hamiltonian dynamics of a free particle moving on a ring, over one section of which it interacts linearly with a single harmonic oscillator. On the basis of numerical and analytical evidence, we conjecture that at small…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan De Bievre , Paul E. Parris , Alex A. Silvius

Droplet vaporization has a great impact on combustion of liquid fuels and might greatly affects the engine performance. Physical understanding and theoretical interpretation of the droplet vaporization behavior are decisive to constitute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 Dehai Yu , Zheng Chen

Dynamics of a dry-rebounding drop was studied experimentally, numerically, and theoretically. Experimental results were reproduced by our computational fluid dynamics simulations, from which time series of kinetic energy, potential energy,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-03 Akio Nishimura , Henry Weller , Hirokazu Maruoka , Masao Takayanagi , Hideharu Ushiki

Motion in a one-dimensional (1D) microfluidic array is simulated. Water droplets, dragged by flowing oil, are arranged in a single row, and due to their hydrodynamic interactions spacing between these droplets oscillates with a wave-like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bin Liu , J. Goree , Yan Feng

Time-dependent potentials are common in galactic systems that undergo significant evolution, interactions, or encounters with other galaxies, or when there are dynamic processes like star formation and merging events. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Eduárd Illés , Dániel Jánosi , Tamás Kovács

A walker is the association of a sub-millimetric bouncing drop moving along with a co-evolving Faraday wave. When confined in a harmonic potential, its stable trajectories are periodic and quantised both in extension and mean angular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-06 S. Perrard , M. Labousse

In 2005, Couder, Protiere, Fort and Badouad showed that oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating tray of oil can display nonlocal interactions reminiscent of the particle-wave associations in quantum mechanics; in particular they can move,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-20 Robert Brady , Ross Anderson

The paper shows sufficiency conditions for stability of continuous periodic orbits under phase uncertainty. Phase based uncertainty is a trait of bipedal walking robots, where the desired trajectories are parameterized by a monotonous…

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We consider the motion of a harmonically trapped overdamped particle, which is submitted to a self-phoretic force, that is proportional to the gradient of a diffusive field for which the particle itself is the source. In agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 A. Alexandre , L. Anderson , T. Collin-Dufresne , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

Aromaticity is a well-known phenomenon in both physics and chemistry, and is responsible for many unique chemical and physical properties of aromatic molecules. The primary feature contributing to the stability of polycyclic aromatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Prateek Chawla , C. M. Chandrashekar

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a rotating harmonic potential, in connection with recent experiments leading to the formation of vortices. We use the classical hydrodynamic approximation to the non-linear Schr\"odinger…

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Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show that an asymmetrically shaped nanoparticle in dilute solution possesses a spontaneously curved trajectory within finite time interval, instead of the generally expected random walk. This…

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