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We delineate the structure of steady laminar flows within a stably stratified, valley-shaped triangular cavity heated from below through linear stability analysis and Navier-Stokes simulations. We derive an exact solution to the quiescent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-21 Patrick J. Stofanak , Cheng-Nian Xiao , Inanc Senocak

This paper is concerned with the transition of the laminar flow in a duct of square cross-section. Like in the similar case of the pipe flow, the motion is linearly stable for all Reynolds numbers, rendering this flow a suitable candidate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-02 Damien Biau , Alessandro Bottaro

We show an abstract time-periodic bifurcation theorem in Banach spaces. The key point as well as the novelty of the method is to split the original evolution equation into two different coupled equations, one for the time-average of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Giovanni P. Galdi

This work introduces a parametric simulation-free reduced order model for incompressible flows undergoing a Hopf bifurcation, leveraging the parametrisation method for invariant manifolds. Unlike data-driven approaches, this method operates…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alessio Colombo , Alessandra Vizzaccaro , Cyril Touzé , André de F. Stabile , Luc Pastur , Attilio Frangi

Vertical thermal convection system exhibits weak turbulence and spatio-temporally chaotic behaviour. In this system, we report seven equilibria and 26 periodic orbits, all new and linearly unstable. These orbits, together with four…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Laurette S. Tuckerman , Tobias M. Schneider

We analyse the stability of viscoelastic Dean flow (flow of an elastic fluid through a curved two-dimensional channel, driven by an azimuthal pressure gradient) in the absence of fluid inertia. This configuration is well known to exhibit a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-10 P. S. D. Surya Phani Tej , Ganesh Subramanian , V. Shankar

The flow of two macroscopically immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluids with unmatched densities is studied, where a transfer of mass between the constituents by phase transition is taken into account. To this end, two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Julia Wittmann

Particles suspended in fluid flow through a curved duct focus to stable equilibrium positions in the duct cross-section due to the balance of two dominant forces: (i) inertial lift force - arising from the inertia of the fluid, and (ii)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Rahil N. Valani , Brendan Harding , Yvonne M. Stokes

We focus on reducing the computational costs associated with the hydrodynamic stability of solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for a Newtonian and viscous fluid in contraction-expansion channels. In particular, we are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Giuseppe Pitton , Annalisa Quaini , Gianluigi Rozza

It is well-established that shear flows are linearly unstable provided the viscosity is small enough, when the horizontal Fourier wave number lies in some interval, between the so-called lower and upper marginally stable curves. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Dongfen Bian , Emmanuel Grenier , Gérard Iooss

The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Alex Doak , Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We provide general sufficient conditions for branching out of a time-periodic family of solutions from steady-state solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the exterior of a cylinder. To this end, we first show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Giovanni P. Galdi

The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in distorted pipes, of finite length, is modeled through the Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions: the inflow is given by an arbitrary member of the Lions-Magenes class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Alessio Falocchi , Ana Leonor Silvestre , Gianmarco Sperone

The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-09 Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

The models that are based of fractional derivatives should be highlighted among promising new models to describe turbulent fluid flows. In the present work, a steady-state flow in a duct is considered under the condition that the turbulent…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Churbanov , Petr N. Vabishchevich

Spatially-periodic channels are increasingly attracting attention as an efficient alternative to packed columns for a number of analytical and engineering processes. In incompressible flows, the periodic geometry allows to compute the flow…

A reduced mathematical model for the flow in an open cavity is presented. The reduction is based on the center manifold theory applied to a perturbation of the original system which allows for a codimension two bifurcation point. The model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Prabal S. Negi

It is presently believed that flows of viscoelastic polymer solutions in geometries such as a straight pipe or channel are linearly stable. Here we present experimental evidence that such flows can be nonlinearly unstable and can exhibit a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Pan , A. Morozov , C. Wagner , P. E. Arratia

The main objective of this paper is to address the instability and dynamical bifurcation of the Dean problem. A nonlinear theory is obtained for the Dean problem, leading in particular to rigorous justifications of the linear theory used by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Huichao Wang , Quan Wang , Ruikuan Liu