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Aligned finger structures, with a characteristic width, emerges during the slow drainage of a liquid/granular mixture in a tilted Hele-Shaw cell. A transition from vertical to horizontal alignment of the finger structures is observed as the…

The structural properties of an economical model for a confined plasma turbulence governor are investigated through bifurcation and stability analyses. A close relationship is demonstrated between the underlying bifurcation framework of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ball , R. L. Dewar , H. Sugama

Turbulence is a widely observed state of fluid flows, characterized by complex, nonlinear interactions between motions across a broad spectrum of length and time scales. While turbulence is ubiquitous, from teacups to planetary atmospheres,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-28 Adrian van Kan

The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We focus on the instability of a stationary cellular pattern of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-01-21 Montserrat A. Miranda , Javier Burguete

Previous theoretical work has speculated about the existence of double-diffusive magnetic buoyancy instabilities of a dynamically evolving horizontal magnetic layer generated by the interaction of forced vertically sheared velocity and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Lara J. Silvers , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Nicholas H. Brummell , Michael R. E. Proctor

In disordered porous media, two-phase flow of immiscible fluids (biphasic flow) is organized in patterns that sometimes exhibit fractal geometries over a range of length scales, depending on the capillary, gravitational and viscous forces…

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Two-dimensional turbulent flows, and to some extent, geophysical flows, are systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, which, albeit fluctuating, exhibit some degree of organization: coherent structures emerge spontaneously at large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-21 Corentin Herbert

A thin water film on a cleaved mica substrate undergoes a first order phase transition between two values of film thickness. By inducing a finite evaporation rate of the water, the interface between the two phases develops a fingering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Oded Agam

We present experimental observations and numerical simulations of a wrinkling instability that occurs at sufficiently high strain rates in the trembling regime of vesicle dynamics in steady linear flow. Spectral and statistical analysis of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-11 Michael Levant , David Abreu , Udo Seifert , Victor Steinberg

We address the flutter instability of a flexible plate immersed in an axial flow. This instability is similar to flag flutter and results from the competition between destabilising pressure forces and stabilising bending stiffness. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 Christophe Eloy , Romain Lagrange , Claire Souilliez , Lionel Schouveiler

A parametric instability of an incompressible, viscous, and Boussinesq fluid layer bounded between two parallel planes is investigated numerically. The layer is assumed to be inclined at an angle with horizontal. The planes bounding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jitender Singh

We study the dynamics of a flexible fiber freely moving in a three-dimensional fully-developed turbulent field and present a phenomenological theory to describe the interaction between the fiber elasticity and the turbulent flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Marco Edoardo Rosti , Arash Alizad Banaei , Luca Brandt , Andrea Mazzino

Plumes in a convective flow are considered to be relevant to the turbulent transport in convection. The effective mass, momentum, and heat transports in the convective turbulence are investigated in the framework of time--space double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki

Instabilities at interface of two stream granular flows have been reported in recent experiment [1] that breaking waves can form at the interface between two streams of identical grains flowing on an inclined plane downstream of a splitter…

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A two-layer quasi-geostrophic flow is quite insulated from the surrounding fluid, while the layers interact each other by means of the modulation of the interface between them and of the turbulence affecting the layers in the proximity of…

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The onset of convection in a rapidly rotating layer in which a thermal wind is present is studied. Diffusive effects are included. The main motivation is from convection in planetary interiors, where thermal winds are expected due to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Robert J. Teed , Chris A. Jones , Rainer Hollerbach

The coexistence of motions on various scales is a remarkable feature of solar convection, which should be taken into account in analyses of the dynamics of magnetic fields. Therefore, it is important to investigate the factors responsible…

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In our previous work~\cite{SanchisAgudoVinuesa2025PRL}, we argued that viscous dissipation in turbulence can be understood as the macroscopic imprint of microscopic path uncertainty, and showed that a kernel variance field $s(y)$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Marcial Sanchis-Agudo , Ricardo Vinuesa

The non-equilibrium relaxational properties of a three dimensional Coulomb glass model are investigated by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Our results suggest a transition from stationary to non-stationary dynamics at the equilibrium glass…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro B. Kolton , D. R. Grempel , Daniel Dominguez