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Controlling the shape and position of moving and pinned droplets on a solid surface is an important feature often found in microfluidic applications. However, automating them, e.g., for high-throughput applications, does rarely involve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-09 Henning Bonart , Christian Kahle , Jens-Uwe Repke

We consider an incompressible fluid in a three-dimensional pipe, following the Navier-Stokes system with classical boundary conditions. We are interested in the following question: is there any optimal shape for the criterion "energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Antoine Henrot , Yannick Privat

The implementation of boundary conditions is among the most challenging parts of modeling fluid flow through channels and complex media. Here, we show that the existing methods to deal with liquid-wall interactions using multicomponent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Rodrigo C. V. Coelho , Catarina B. Moura , Margarida M. Telo da Gama , Nuno A. M. Araújo

The single droplet under shear is a foundational problem in fluid mechanics. In computational fluid dynamics, the two-dimensional (2D) formulation offers advantages in both computational efficiency and relevance, yet its theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Thomas Appleford , Vatsal Sanjay , Maziyar Jalaal

Many solid materials and liquid crystals exhibit geometric frustration, meaning that they have an ideal local structure that cannot fill up space. For that reason, the global phase must be a compromise between the ideal local structure and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Cheng Long , Jonathan V. Selinger

Anisotropic fluids, such as nematic liquid crystals, can form non-spherical equilibrium shapes known as tactoids. Predicting the shape of these structures as a function of material parameters is challenging and paradigmatic of a broader…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 James H. Adler , Anca S. Andrei , Timothy J. Atherton

In this paper, the isodiametric problem for centrally symmetric convex bodies in the Euclidean d-space R^d containing no interior non-zero point of a lattice L is studied. It is shown that the intersection of a suitable ball with the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-26 M. A. Hernandez Cifre , A. Schuermann , F. Vallentin

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the behavior of Leidenfrost droplets inserted in a Hele-Shaw cell. As a result of the confinement from the two surfaces, the droplet has the shape of a flattened disc and is thermally isolated…

The Muskat problem models the filtration of two incompressible immiscible fluids of different characteristics in porous media. In this paper, we consider both the 2D and 3D setting of two fluids of different constant densities and different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo Garcia-Juarez , Neel Patel , Robert M. Strain

Results from Monte Carlo simulations of wall-attached droplets in the three-dimensional Ising lattice gas model and in a symmetric binary Lennard-Jones fluid, confined by antisymmetric walls, are analyzed, with the aim to estimate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Subir K. Das , Sergei A. Egorov , Peter Virnau , David Winter , Kurt Binder

In this paper we give a geometric argument for bounding the diameter of a connected compact surface (with boundary) of arbitrary codimension in Euclidean space in terms of Topping's diameter bound for closed surfaces (without boundary). The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Tatsuya Miura

In this paper, we consider the small viscosity limit problem for the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations in a 2D exterior domain with impermeable boundary conditions , and the corresponding Euler equations have vortex sheet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Helong Lu

We study droplet-impact problems in a three-dimensional cylindrical or equivalent two-dimensional Cartesian geometry. Such structures do have an approximate experimental realization, and they are often simulated a test-bed for computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-25 Lennon Ó Náraigh , Juan Mairal

A two-dimensional steady problem of a potential free-surface flow of an ideal incompressible fluid caused by a singular sink is considered. The sink is placed at the horizontal bottom of the fluid layer. With the help of the Levi-Civita…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Anastasia A. Mestnikova , Victor N. Starovoitov

In the framework of the lubrication approximation, we derive a set of equations describing the steady bottom profile of Leidenfrost drops coupled with the vapor pressure. This allows to derive scaling laws for the geometry of the concave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yves Pomeau , Martine Le Berre , Franck Celestini , Thomas Frisch

Motivated by recent experiments, we consider theoretically the compression of droplets pinned at the bottom on a surface of finite area. We show that if the droplet is sufficiently compressed at the top by a surface, it will always develop…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-03 Gwynn J. Elfring , Eric Lauga

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of an incompressible viscous Navier-Stokes fluid evolving above a one-dimensional flat surface. The fluid is subject to a uniform gravitational field and capillary forces acting along the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Xiaoding Yang

The theory of turbulent Newtonian fluids turns out that the choice of the boundary condition is a relevant issue, since it can modify the behavior of the fluid by creating or avoiding a strong boundary layer. In this work we study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Nikolai Chemetov , Fernanda Cipriano

It is an interesting and important topic to study the motion of small particles in a viscous liquid in current applied research. In this paper we assume the particles are convex with arbitrary shapes and mainly investigate the interaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Haigang Li , Longjuan Xu , Peihao Zhang

The reverse isoperimetric problem asks for existence and properties of bounded convex sets in a Riemannian manifold which maximise the perimeter under all those sets of fixed volume which roll freely in a ball of some given radius. If the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Deniz M. Hamdy , Julian Scheuer