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We report the experimental observation of nonlinear mode-crossing dissipation and injection-locking-like stabilization in a milligram-scale diamagnetically levitated quartz cube. By optically driving the cube to rotation rate near 360 RPM,…
Localized wave fronts are a fundamental feature of biological systems from cell biology to ecology. Here, we study a broad class of bistable models subject to self-activation, degradation and spatially inhomogeneous activating agents. We…
Dipolar-controlled quantum deflagration going over into quantum detonation in the elongated Mn_12 Ac molecular magnet in a strong transverse field has been considered within the full 3d model. It is shown that within the dipolar window…
Videos of the molecular dynamics simulations of a colliding hard disk reactive medium. A simple event-driven algorithm is used to simulate these colliding hard disks allowing for the study of detonations at the microscopic level. This video…
In this article we examine the dynamics of a colloidal particle driven by a modulated force over a sinusoidal optical potential energy landscape. Coupling between the competing frequencies of the modulated drive and that of particle motion…
The nonlinear collisional dynamics of coupled driven plasma waves in the presence of background dissipation is studied analytically within kinetic theory. Sufficiently near marginal stability, phase space correlations are poorly preserved…
A three-dimensional simulation of the rotating detonation engine (RDE) with film cooling is conducted. The aim of this study is to analyze the fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the detonation flow field under the influence of cooling flow…
Liquid ammonia is a promising carbon-free energy carrier, but its high volatility and low reactivity lead to detonation dynamics that differ significantly from those of liquid hydrocarbons. Using Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations, we revealed…
The paper addresses the bistability caused by spontaneous symmetry breaking bifurcation in a one-dimensional periodically corrugated nonlinear waveguide pumped by coherent light at normal incidence. The formation and the stability of the…
We describe various types of traveling fronts of bistable reaction-diffusion cellular automata. These dynamical systems with discrete time, space, and state spaces can be seen as fully discrete versions of widely studied bistable…
We report for the first time on triadic resonances in a rotating convection system. Using direct numerical simulations, we find that convective modes in a rotating spherical fluid can excite a pair of inertial modes whose frequencies and…
Dynamic mode decomposition method is deployed to investigate the heat transfer mechanism in a compressible turbulent shear layer and shockwave. To this end, highly resolved Large Eddy Simulations are performed to explore the effect of wall…
We explore the quantum dynamics of heteronuclear atomic collisions in waveguides and demonstrate the existence of a novel mechanism for the resonant formation of polar molecules. The molecular formation probabilities can be tuned by…
The present work revisits the problem of modelling the real gaseous detonation dynamics at the macro-scale by simple steady one-dimensional (1D) models. Experiments of detonations propagating in channels with exponentially expanding…
The study investigates the response dynamics of premixed jet flames when incident with blast waves along the jet axis. In the present work, blast waves are generated using the wire-explosion technique. The generated blast wave interacts…
Standing detonation engines are a promising detonation-based propulsion technology. The most commonly studied standing detonation configuration involves a straight-sided wedge that induces an oblique detonation wave. A recently introduced…
Excitation mechanisms for collective waves in confined dense one-dimensional microfluidic droplet arrays are investigated by experiments and computer simulations. We demonstrate that distinct modes can be excited by creating specific…