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This paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on which the harmonic components of the velocity field play a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Tim Brüers , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Max Wardetzky

We present a novel framework inspired by the Immersed Boundary Method for predicting the fluid-structure interaction of complex structures immersed in flows with moderate to high Reynolds numbers. The main novelties of the proposed…

Normalizing flows are a promising tool for modeling probability distributions in physical systems. While state-of-the-art flows accurately approximate distributions and energies, applications in physics additionally require smooth energies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-01 Jonas Köhler , Andreas Krämer , Frank Noé

In this note, by constructing suitable approximate solutions, we prove the existence of global weak solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficients in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-28 Ting Zhang , Daoyuan Fang

Simulations of turbulent fluid flow around long cylindrical structures are computationally expensive because of the vast range of length scales, requiring simplifications such as dimensional reduction. Current dimensionality reduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-25 Bernat Font , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Vinh-Tan Nguyen , Owen R. Tutty

We consider a numerical approach for a covariant generalised Navier-Stokes equation on general surfaces and study the influence of varying Gaussian curvature on anomalous vortex-network active turbulence. This regime is characterised by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-03 M. Rank , A. Voigt

Finite difference method and finite element method are popular methods for solving groundwater flow equations. This paper presents a new method that uses gradually varied functions to solve such equation. In this paper, we have established…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Li Chen , Xun-Hong Chen

We consider a two-dimensional motion of a thin film flowing down an inclined plane under the influence of the gravity and the surface tension. In order to investigate the stability of such flow, it is hard to treat the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Hiroki Ueno , Akinori Shiraishi , Tatsuo Iguchi

This paper presents a topology optimization approach for surface flows, which can represent the viscous and incompressible fluidic motions at the solid/liquid and liquid/vapor interfaces. The fluidic motions on such material interfaces can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Yongbo Deng , Weihong Zhang , Jihong Zhu , Junqiang Bai , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

The objective of this three-part work is to formulate and rigorously analyse a number of reduced mathematical models that are nevertheless capable of describing the hydrology at the scale of a river basin (i.e. catchment). Coupled surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-29 Piotr Morawiecki , Philippe H. Trinh

In this paper, we introduce a new extended version of the shallow water equations with surface tension which is skew-symmetric with respect to the L2 scalar product and allows for large gradients of fluid height. This result is a…

We consider fully discrete embedded finite element approximations for a shallow water hyperbolic problem and its reduced-order model. Our approach is based on a fixed background mesh and an embedded reduced basis. The Shifted Boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Xianyi Zeng , Giovanni Stabile , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Guglielmo Scovazzi , Gianluigi Rozza

The gravity-driven spreading of one fluid in contact with another fluid is of key importance to a range of topics. To describe these phenomena, the two-layer shallow-water equations is commonly employed. When one layer is significantly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-12 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Karl Yngve Lervåg , Åsmund Ervik , Øivind Wilhelmsen

We present an hybrid VOF/embedded boundary method allowing to model two-phase flows in presence of solids with arbitrary shapes. The method relies on the coupling of existing methods: a geometric Volume of fluid (VOF) method to tackle the…

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Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Hannes Holey , Andrea Codrignani , Peter Gumbsch , Lars Pastewka

Analysing the impact of bottom friction on shallow water waves over bottom terrains is important in areas including environmental and coastal engineering as well as the oceanic and atmospheric sciences. However, current theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-28 Chang Liu , Antwan D. Clark

In this work, we develop a modelling framework for granular flows based on the shallow water moment equations on inclined planes. Under the assumption of a polynomial expansion of the velocity field, the model extends the classical shallow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Julio Careaga , Qian Huang , Julian Koellermeier

Driven by growing momentum in two-dimensional geophysical flow modeling, this paper introduces a general family of "thermal" rotating shallow-water models. The models are capable of accommodating thermodynamic processes, such as those…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-10 F. J. Beron-Vera

In recent literature several derivations of incompressible Navier-Stokes type equations that model the dynamics of an evolving fluidic surface have been presented. These derivations differ in the physical principles used in the modeling…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Philip Brandner , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

Numerous codes are being developed to solve Shallow Water equations. Because there are used in hydraulic and environmental studies, their capability to simulate properly flow dynamics is critical to guarantee infrastructure and human…