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In biology, cells undergo deformations under the action of flow caused by the fluid surrounding them. These flows lead to shape changes and instabilities that have been explored in detail for single component vesicles. However, cell…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Anirudh Venkatesh , Vivek Narsimhan

We present simulations of coherent structures in compressible flows near the transition to turbulence using the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) method. The structures we find are remarkably consistent with experimental observations and…

In this fluid dynamics video we explore an array of different possible dynamics for a flexible filament sedimenting in a viscous fluid. The time-dependent shapes and trajectories of the filament are determined analytically and numerically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-03 Harishankar Manikantan , Lei Li , David Saintillan , Saverio E. Spagnolie

Granular flow dynamics on a vertically vibrated pile is studied by means of both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. As already revealed, the depth-averaged velocity of a fully-fluidized granular pile under strong vibration,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-12 Daisuke Tsuji , Michio Otsuki , Hiroaki Katsuragi

Granular dynamics driven by fluid flow is ubiquitous in many industrial and natural processes, such as fluvial and coastal sediment transport. Yet, their complex multiphysics nature challenges the accuracy and efficiency of numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Mojtaba Jandaghian , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

Diffusion of particles in complex fluids and gels is difficult to describe and often lies beyond the scope of the classical Stokes-Einstein relation. One of the main lines of research over the past few decades has sought to relate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Władysław Sokołowski , Huma Jamil , Karol Makuch

We present for the first time an experimental investigation of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) flows within a neutrally buoyant drop with initial radius of 2.25 mm. Utilizing particle image velocimetry (PIV) and high-speed shadowgraphy, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-19 Joel R. Karp , Bertrand Lecordier , Mostafa S. Shadloo

We investigate the rheology of granular materials via molecular dynamics simulations of homogeneous, simple shear flows of soft, frictional, noncohesive spheres. In agreement with previous results for frictionless particles, we observe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-14 Sebastian Chialvo , Jin Sun , Sankaran Sundaresan

The filtration of fluid in 2D porous medium is simulated by the molecular dynamics technique. The high concentration of fluid is created at the initial point in time and the number of fluid particles is investigated in all porous. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marat N. Ovchinnikov

The dynamical properties of classical fluids at pico-liter scale attract experimentally and theoretically much attention in the soft-matter and biophysics communities, due to the appearance of the microfluidics, also called 'lab-on-a-chip',…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Penna , P. Tarazona

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

We study the deformation of a two-dimensional viscous droplet in simple shear in the presence of odd viscosity. We derive an analytical solution for the droplet shape and surrounding flow field within the framework of odd Stokes flow,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-11 Thomas Appleford , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

In this letter, following an extensive experimental validation, we perform constant-volume shearing simulations of non-Brownian granular suspensions using the discrete element method coupled with the lattice Boltzmann method. We choose a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-18 Zaohui Zhang , Teng Man , Herbert E. Huppert , Sergio Andres Galindo-Torres

We study the transport properties of particles draining from a silo using imaging and direct particle tracking. The particle displacements show a universal transition from super-diffusion to normal diffusion, as a function of the distance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaehyuk Choi , A. Kudrolli , R. R. Rosales , Martin Z. Bazant

We study the yielding transition in soft jammed materials under oscillatory shear, employing a novel methodology that combines rheological measurements with detailed dynamical observations. This method provides a comprehensive view of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-02 P. Edera , M. Brizioli , M. Madani , E. Ngouamba , P. Coussot , V. Trappe , G. Petekidis , F. Giavazzi , R. Cerbino

Current design constraints have encouraged the studies of aeroacoustic fields around compressible jet flows. The present work addresses the numerical study of unsteady turbulent jet flows as a preparation for future aeroacoustic analyses of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-13 Sami Yamouni , Carlos Junqueira-Junior , Joao Luiz F. Azevedo , William R. Wolf

Soft Glassy Materials (SGM) consist in dense amorphous assemblies of colloidal particles of multiple shapes, elasticity, and interactions, which confer upon them solid-like properties at rest. They are ubiquitously encountered in modern…

We review the dynamical behavior of giant fluid vesicles in various types of external hydrodynamic flow. The interplay between stresses arising from membrane elasticity, hydrodynamic flows, and the ever present thermal fluctuations leads to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-12 David Abreu , Michael Levant , Victor Steinberg , Udo Seifert

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

Trajectories of a buoyant spherical solid particle in a linear shear flow were investigated at low Reynolds numbers. A two-dimensional CFD analysis was performed to simulate the solid-fluid flows. Our numerical model, the discrete phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-14 Nima Fathi , Seyed Sobhan Aleyasin , Peter Vorobieff , Goodarz Ahmadi