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When a viscous fluid partially fills a Hele--Shaw channel, and is pushed by a pressure difference, the fluid interface is unstable due to the Saffman--Taylor instability. We consider the evolution of a fluid region of finite extent, bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-20 Michael C Dallaston , Michael J W Jackson , Liam C Morrow , Scott W McCue

We present high resolution simulations of two-fluid (ion-neutral) MHD turbulence with resolutions as large as 512^3. The simulations are supersonic and mildly sub-Alfvenic, in keeping with the conditions present in molecular clouds. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Chad D. Meyer , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

This work deals with stability of two-phase stratified air-water flows in horizontal circular pipes. For this purpose, we performed a linear stability analysis, which considers all possible three-dimensional infinitesimal disturbances and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ilya Barmak , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

This paper is concerned with the 2-dim two-phase interface Euler equation linearized at a pair of monotone shear flows in both fluids. We extend the Howard's Semicircle Theorem and study the eigenvalue distribution of the linearized Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Xiao Liu

The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spectral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Enrique Álvarez , Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

We present a data-driven pipeline for model building that combines interpretable machine learning, hydrodynamic theories, and microscopic models. The goal is to uncover the underlying processes governing nonlinear dynamics experiments. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-22 Jonathan Colen , Alexis Poncet , Denis Bartolo , Vincenzo Vitelli

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

In nonlinear dynamical systems with highly nonorthogonal linear eigenvectors, linear non-modal analysis is more useful than normal mode analysis in predicting turbulent properties. However, the non-trivial time evolution of non-modal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Brett Friedman , Troy A. Carter

The article describes the CFD software tool FlowVision (OOO "Tesis", Moscow). The model equations used for this research are the set of Reynolds and continuity equations and equations of the standard k - e turbulence model. The aim of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey N. Kochevsky

The stability of liquid films coating the walls of a parallel-plate channel and sheared by a pressure-driven gas flow along the channel centre is studied. The films are susceptible to a long-wavelength instability, whose dynamic behaviour…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-21 Miklós Vécsei , Mathias Dietzel , Steffen Hardt

In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

A nonlinear model relating the imposed motion of a circular cylinder, submerged in a fluid flow, to the transverse force coefficient is presented. The nonlinear fluid system, featuring vortex shedding patterns, limit cycle oscillations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-11 Jan Decuyper , Tim De Troyer , Koen Tiels , Johan Schoukens , Mark C. Runacres

The stability of the interface separating two immiscible incompressible fluids of different densities and viscosities is considered in the case of fluids filling a cavity which performs horizontal harmonic oscillation. There exists a simple…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Khenner , Dmitrii V. Lyubimov , Tatyana S. Belozerova , Bernard Roux

The superflow in a superfluid is bounded from above by Landau's critical velocity. Within a microscopic bosonic model, I show that below this critical velocity there is a dynamical instability that manifests itself in an imaginary sound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Andreas Schmitt

This paper investigates the generation of free-surface waves in a liquid layer driven by linear instabilities in Couette-Poiseuille (quadratic) shear flows. The base velocity profiles are characterized by a curvature parameter, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Harishankar Muppirala , Ramana Patibandla , Anubhab Roy

In this paper, we will provide the the finite element method for the electro-osmotic flow in micro-channels, in which a convection-diffusion type equation is given for the charge density $\rho^e$. A time-discrete method based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yunxia Wang , Zhiyong Si

We report a novel technique to passively create strong secondary flows at moderate to high flow rates in microchannels, accurately control them and finally, due to their deterministic nature, program them into microfluidic platforms. Based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-20 Hamed Amini , Mahdokht Masaeli , Dino Di Carlo

To comprehensively understand saturation of two-dimensional ($2$D) magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence, energy transfer analysis is extended from the traditional interaction between scales to include eigenmode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , E. H. Anders

In this paper, we study the structurally nonlinear stability of supersonic contact discontinuities in three-dimensional compressible isentropic steady flows. Based on the weakly linear stability result and the $L^2$-estimates obtained by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Ya-Guang Wang , Fang Yu