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Planning and extension of water distribution systems (WDSs) plays a key role in the development of smart cities, driven by challenges such as urbanization and climate change. In this context, the correct estimation of physically correct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Janine Strotherm , Julian Rolfes , Barbara Hammer

A formal derivation of linear hydrodynamics for a granular fluid is given. The linear response to small spatial perturbations of the homogeneous reference state is studied in detail using methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James W. Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , J. Javier Brey

Two-dimensional free-surface flow over localised topography is examined with the emphasis on the stability of hydraulic-fall solutions. A Gaussian topography profile is assumed with a positive or negative amplitude modelling a bump or a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jack S. Keeler , Mark G. Blyth

Uniform Shear Flow is a prototype nonequilibrium state admitting detailed study at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels via theory and computer simulation. It is shown that the hydrodynamic equations for this state have a long…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mirim Lee , James W. Dufty , José M. Montanero , Andrés Santos , James F. Lutsko

Particle motion is considered in incompressible two-dimensional flows consisting of a steady background gyre on which an unsteady wave-like perturbation is superimposed. A dynamical systems point of view that exploits the action--angle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Francisco J. Beron-Vera , María J. Olascoaga , Michael G. Brown

A new universal theory for flow instability and turbulent transition is proposed in this study. Flow instability and turbulence transition have been challenging subjects for fluid dynamics for a century. The critical condition of turbulent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Hua-Shu Dou

The amplitude equation for an unstable electrostatic wave is analyzed using an expansion in the mode amplitude $A(t)$. In the limit of weak instability, i.e. $\gamma\to 0^+$ where $\gamma$ is the linear growth rate, the nonlinear…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 John David Crawford , Anandhan Jayaraman

In this paper we examine the linear stability of equilibrium solutions to incompressible Euler's equation in 2- and 3-dimensions. The space of perturbations is split into two classes - those that preserve the topology of vortex lines and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Elizabeth Thoren

In nonlinear systems, small perturbations are conventionally attributed to negligible nonlinearity, justifying linear approximations. Here, we uncover a notable exception to this paradigm in an electrokinetic (EK) flow. Using a novel dual…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 Jin'an Pang , Guangyin Jing , Xiaoqiang Feng , Kaige Wang , Wei Zhao

We develop a maximum likelihood method to infer relevant physical properties of elongated active particles. Using individual trajectories of advected swimmers as input, we are able to accurately determine their rotational diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-31 Gaspard Junot , Eric Clément , Harold Auradou , Reinaldo García-García

In this paper, instability at an interface between two miscible liquids with identical mechanical properties but different electrical conductivities is analyzed in the presence of an electric field that is perpendicular to the interface. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-11 H. -Y. Hsu , Neelesh A. Patankar

Statistical solutions of incompressible Euler describe turbulent dynamics as time-parameterized laws on $L^2$ whose multi-point correlations satisfy an infinite hierarchy of weak identities. Modern generative samplers for PDE forecasting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Victor Armegioiu

We study a 1D semilinear wave equation modeling the dynamic of an elastic string interacting with a rigid substrate through an adhesive layer. The constitutive law of the adhesive material is assumed elastic up to a finite critical state,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Giuseppe Florio , Marilena Ligabo' , Francesco Maddalena

Considering a gas of self-propelled particles with binary interactions, we derive the hydrodynamic equations governing the density and velocity fields from the microscopic dynamics, in the framework of the associated Boltzmann equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-09 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Grégoire

Scroll waves are three-dimensional analogs of spiral waves. The linear stability spectrum of untwisted and twisted scroll waves is computed for a two-variable reaction-diffusion model of an excitable medium. Different bands of modes are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Henry , Vincent Hakim

The understanding of electrokinetics for unsaturated conditions is crucial for numerous of geophysical data interpretation. Nevertheless, the behaviour of the streaming potential coefficient C as a function of the water saturation Sw is…

The identification of stream in the straight pipe as a flexible rod has allowed to present the criterion expression for determination of transition of the laminar flow regime to the turbulent as a loss of stability of the rectilinear static…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

In this paper, a general model of wireless channels is established based on the physics of wave propagation. Then the problems of inverse scattering and channel prediction are formulated as nonlinear filtering problems. The solutions to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-26 Haiqing Wei

We investigate the branching of positive streamers in air and present the first systematic investigation of splitting into more than two branches. We study discharges in 100 mbar artificial air that is exposed to voltage pulses of 10 kV…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 L. C. J. Heijmans , S. Nijdam , E. M. van Veldhuizen , U. Ebert

Context. In the past few years, there has been a rise in the detection of streamers, asymmetric flows of material directed toward the protostellar disk with material from outside the star's natal core. It is unclear how they affect the…