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We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

We solve the convection-diffusion equation using a coupling of cell-centered finite volume (FV) and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. The domain is divided into disjoint regions assigned to FV or DG, and the two methods are coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Maurice S. Fabien

In two and three dimension we analyze discontinuous Galerkin methods for the acoustic problem. The acoustic fluid that we consider on this paper is inviscid, leading to a linear eigenvalue problem. The acoustic problem is written, in first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Felipe Lepe , David Mora , Jesus Vellojin

Double-diffusive convection has been well studied in geophysical contexts, but detailed investigations of the regimes characteristic of stellar or planetary interiors have only recently become feasible. Since most astrophysical fluids are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Peter Harrington , Pascale Garaud

Grad-div stabilization is a classical remedy in conforming mixed finite element methods for incompressible flow problems, for mitigating velocity errors that are sometimes called poor mass conservation. Such errors arise due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Mine Akbas , Alexander Linke , Leo G. Rebholz , Philipp W. Schroeder

Convection-diffusion-reaction equations model the conservation of scalar quantities. From the analytic point of view, solution of these equations satisfy under certain conditions maximum principles, which represent physical bounds of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Volker John , Petr Knobloch

The displacement of a viscous fluid by an air bubble in the narrow gap between two parallel plates can readily drive complex interfacial pattern formation known as viscous fingering. We focus on a modified system suggested recently by [1],…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-03-06 Christian Vaquero-Stainer , Matthias Heil , Anne Juel , Draga Pihler-Puzovic

We report the first systematic evidence of hallucination in AI models of fluid dynamics, demonstrated in the canonical problem of hydrodynamically unstable transport known as viscous fingering. AI-based modeling of flow with instabilities…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ramdhan Wibawa , Birendra Jha

Viscous fingering experiments in Hele-Shaw cells lead to striking pattern formations which have been the subject of intense focus among the physics and applied mathematics community for many years. In recent times, much attention has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-10 Liam C. Morrow , Timothy J. Moroney , Scott W. McCue

We present a theory of the interfacial stability of two immiscible electrolytes under the coupled action of pressure gradients and electric fields in a Hele-Shaw cell or porous medium. Mathematically, our theory describes a phenomenon of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-01 Mohammad Mirzadeh , Martin Z. Bazant

We experimentally study the viscous fingering instability in a fluid-fluid phase separated colloid-polymer mixture by means of laser scanning confocal microscopy and microfluidics. We focus on three aspects of the instability. (i) The…

We consider collective motion and damping of dipolar Fermi gases in the hydrodynamic regime. We investigate the trajectories of collective oscillations -- here dubbed ``weltering'' motions -- in cross-dimensional rethermalization…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-02 Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

Viscous fingering patterns form in confined geometries at the interface between two fluids as the lower-viscosity fluid displaces the one with higher viscosity. Previous studies have examined the most unstable wavelength of the patterns…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-04 Thomas E Videbæk

We propose a mathematical model that combines elastic, viscous and porous effects with growth or shrinkage due to microstructural changes. This phenomenon is important in tissue or tumor growth, as well as in dermal contraction. Although…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Sabia Asghar , Duncan den Bakker , Etelvina Javierre , Qiyao Peng , Fred J. Vermolen

Parametric finite element discretizations of constrained geometric flows must simultaneously address high-order geometric stiffness, mesh degeneration, and nonlinear global constraints. This paper develops a stabilized dual-SAV (scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Koya Sakakibara

Numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs require stabilization. For linear acoustics, divergence-free vector fields should remain stationary, but classical Finite Difference methods add incompatible diffusion that dramatically restricts the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

A new energy-consistent discretization of the viscous dissipation function in incompressible flows is proposed. It is implied by choosing a discretization of the diffusive terms and a discretization of the local kinetic energy equation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-21 Benjamin Sanderse , Francesc Xavier Trias

Scientific codes are an indispensable link between theory and experiment; in (astro-)plasma physics, such numerical tools are one window into the universe's most extreme flows of energy. The discretization of Maxwell's equations - needed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy , V. Mewes , P. Cerdá-Durán

In planetary fluid cores, the density depends on temperature and chemical composition, which diffuse at very different rates. This leads to various instabilities, bearing the name of double-diffusive convection. We investigate rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Rémy Monville , Jérémie Vidal , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer

Being a major limiting factor for the efficiency of various technologies, such as Enhanced Oil Recovery, the viscous fingering (or Saffman--Taylor) instability has been extensively studied, especially for simple Newtonian fluids. Here, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alban Pouplard , Peichun Amy Tsai