English
Related papers

Related papers: Solving Lubrication Problems at the Nanometer Scal…

200 papers

We study a stationary 3D/2D fluid-structure interaction problem between an elastic structure described by the linear plate equation and a fluid described by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with hard-sphere pressure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Boris Muha , Šárka Nečasová , Milan Pokorný , Srđan Trifunović , Justin T. Webster

We consider a system of many hard rods moving in one dimension. As it is an integrable system, it possesses an extensive number of conserved quantities and its evolution on macroscopic scale can be described by generalised hydrodynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Mrinal Jyoti Powdel , Anupam Kundu

Thin-film flows of viscoelastic fluids are encountered in various industrial and biological settings. The understanding of thin viscous film flows in Newtonian fluids is very well developed, which for a large part is due to the so-called…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-24 Charu Datt , Minkush Kansal , Jacco H. Snoeijer

Reducing wall drag in turbulent pipe and channel flows is an issue of great practical importance. In engineering applications, end-functionalized polymer chains are often employed as agents to reduce drag. These are polymers which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Theodore D. Drivas , Joonhyun La

This paper investigates the Cauchy problem for the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with the constant state as far field, which may be vacuum or non-vacuum. Under the assumption of a sufficiently large bulk…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Qinghao Lei , Chengfeng Xiong

We investigate the effect of turbulence on the combined condensational and collisional growth of cloud droplets by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations of turbulence and a superparticle approximation for droplet dynamics…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Xiang-Yu Li , Axel Brandenburg , Gunilla Svensson , Nils Haugen , Bernhard Mehlig , Igor Rogachevskii

Using the Lagrangian transport of momentum, the Reynolds stress can be expressed in terms of basic turbulence parameters. DNS data at higher Reynolds numbers (Re= 1000 and 5200) have been used to again validate this theory, where it is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-11 T. -W. Lee

Attention has been paid to the similarity and duality between the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings and the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of extended fluids. In this paper, we derive a set of simple (1+1)-dimensional equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-18 Umpei Miyamoto

We develop a variational multiscale proper orthogonal decomposition reduced-order model for turbulent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The error analysis of the full discretization of the model is presented. All error contributions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-03 Traian Iliescu , Zhu Wang

This paper concerns the existence of global weak solutions to the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity coefficients. We construct suitable approximate system which has smooth solutions satisfying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Jing Li , Zhouping Xin

In this paper, we considered the isentropic Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These systems come from the Boltzmann equations through the Chapman-Enskog expansion to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Shengguo Zhu

This paper is concerned with the global solvability for the Navier-Stokes equations describing viscous free surface flows of infinite depth in three and higher dimensions. We first prove time weighted estimates of solutions to a linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Hirokazu Saito , Yoshihiro Shibata

We accomplish two major tasks. First, we show that the turbulent motion at large scales obeys Gaussian statistics in the interval 0 < Rlambda < 8.8, where Rlambda is the microscale Reynolds number, and that the Gaussian flow breaks down to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-23 K. R. Sreenivasan , V. Yakhot

We consider here a discrete system of spheres interacting through a lubrication force. This force is dissipative, and singular near contact: it behaves like the reciprocal of interparticle distance. We propose a macroscopic constitutive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Aline Lefebvre-Lepot , Bertrand Maury , Aline Lefebvre

We analyze the equation coming from the Eulerian-Lagrangian description of fluids. We discuss a couple of ways to extend this notion to viscous fluids. The main focus of this paper is to discuss the first way, due to Constantin. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Milan Pokorny

We prove the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for a compressible multifluid described by the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in dim = 1. The result holds when the diffusion coefficient depends on the pressure. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 C. Michoski , A. Vasseur

We investigate in this article the boundary layers appearing for a fluid under moderate rotation when the viscosity is small. The fluid is modeled by rotating type Stokes equations known also as the Barotropric mode equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Soumaya Ben Chaabane , Makram Hamouda , Mahdi Tekitek

It is a classical problem in fluid dynamics about the stability and instability of different hydrodynamic patterns in various physical settings, in particular in the high Reynolds number limit of laminar flow with boundary layer. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang

The Navier-Stokes equations describing laminar flow of an incompressible fluid will be solved. Different group of general solutions for Navier stokes equations governing Laminar incompressible fluids will be derived.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saeed Otarod , Davar Otarod

The main goal of this paper is to obtain sufficient conditions that allow us to rigorously derive local versions of the 4/5 and 4/3 laws of hydrodynamic turbulence, by which we mean versions of these laws that hold in bounded domains. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Stavros Papathanasiou