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Dynamical-systems approaches to spatiotemporal chaos have been developed primarily for single-phase flows, where the system state is defined by bulk velocity fields. Extending these ideas to two-phase flows remains challenging because the…

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The seven-equation model is a compressible multiphase formulation that allows for phasic velocity and pressure disequilibrium. These equations are solved using a diffused interface method that models resolved multiphase flows. Novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Achyut Panchal , Spencer H. Bryngelson , Suresh Menon

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

Interfacial fluctuations in a two-phase binary fluid mixture reveal signatures of underlying physical processes that occur within each phase and on a range of spatial and temporal scales. In this study, we investigate a model binary fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-04 Samuel Z Khiangte , Triparna Sanyal , Sumantra Sarkar , Nairita Pal

We consider the behaviour of a dielectric fluid-fluid interface in the presence of a strong electric field from a point charge and line charge, respectively, both statically and, in the latter case, dynamically. The fluid surface is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-08 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Iver Brevik

Local phonon motion underneath a surface interacting with a flow may cause the flow to passively stabilize, or destabilize, as desired within the region adjacent to the subsurface motion. This mechanism has been extensively analyzed over…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-19 Armin Kianfar , Mahmoud I. Hussein

We present a theoretical and numerical study on the (in)stability of the interface between two immiscible liquids, i.e., viscous fingering, in angled Hele-Shaw cells across a range of capillary numbers ($Ca$). We consider two types of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-06 Daihui Lu , Federico Municchi , Ivan C. Christov

We perform the stability analysis for a free surface fluid current modeled as two finite layers of constant vorticity, under the action of gravity and absence of surface tension. In the same spirit as Taylor ["Effect of variation in density…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-18 Ricardo Barros , José Felipe Voloch

We consider the stability of a system of equations which are a singular perturbation of the incompressible rigid-plastic flow equations used to model granular flow. A linear stability analysis shows that solutions of these equations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shaun Hendy

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

This work presents a comprehensive framework for enhanced diffusion modeling in fluid-structure interactions by combining the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with stochastic trajectories and high-order spectral boundary conditions. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

We use a phase-separated driven two-dimensional Ising lattice gas to study fluid interfaces exposed to shear flow parallel to the interface. The interface is stabilized by two parallel walls with opposing surface fields and a driving field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. R. Smith , Oleg Vasilyev , Douglas B. Abraham , Anna Maciołek , Matthias Schmidt

This paper discusses the effect of sequential conflict resolution maneuvers of an infinite aircraft flow through a finite control volume. Aircraft flow models are utilized to simulate traffic flows and determine stability. Pseudo-random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-05 Troy Hand , Zhi-Hong Mao , Eric Feron

Structured on the paradigmatic Navier-Stokes flow model, we study a stochastically forced Taylor-Couette system in the narrow gap limit, in order to analyze the simultaneous impact of a non-conserved (Gaussian) force and a nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Larry E. Godwin , Sotos C. Generalis , Amit K. Chattopadhyay

In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken

Fluid--fluid interfacial instability and subsequent fluid mixing are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. The hydrodynamic instability of fluid interfaces has long centered on the pressure gradient-driven long-wavelength Rayleigh--Taylor…

This study presents a detailed investigation of the modulational stability of interfacial wave packets in a two-layer inviscid incompressible fluid with finite layer thicknesses and interfacial surface tension. The stability analysis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-20 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

Fundamental properties of the multicomponent diffuse-interface model (DIM), such as the maximum entropy principle and conservation laws, are used to explore the basic interfacial dynamics and phase transitions in fluids. Flat interfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-02 E. S. Benilov

A diffusive system coupled to unequal boundary reservoirs reaches a non-equilibrium steady state. While the full-counting-statistics of current fluctuations in these states are well understood for generic systems, results for steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-29 Soumyabrata Saha , Tridib Sadhu

The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz