Related papers: An alternative to the concept of continuous medium
Discrete mechanics is presented as an alternative to the equations of fluid mechanics, in particular to the Navier-Stokes equation. The derivation of the discrete equation of motion is built from the intuitions of Galileo, the principles of…
The proposal for a new formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations is based on a Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition where all the terms corresponding to the physical phenomena are written as the sum of a divergence-free term and another curl-free…
The attempt to unify the laws of physics is approached from a discrete vision of space and time, abandoning the continuous medium paradigm that presided over the derivation of certain equations of physics-Navier-Stokes., Navier-Lam{\'e},…
Discrete mechanics is used to present fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interactions, electromagnetism and optical physics in a coherent theoretical and numerical approach. Acceleration considered as an absolute quantity is written as a sum…
Discrete mechanics makes it possible to formulate any problem of fluid mechanics or fluid-structure interaction in velocity and potentials of acceleration; the equation system consists of a single vector equation and potentials updates. The…
The continuum equations of fluid mechanics are rederived with the intention of keeping certain mechanical and thermodynamic concepts separate. A new "mechanical" mass density is created to be used in computing inertial quantities, whereas…
The statistical nature of discrete fluid molecules with random thermal motion so far has not been considered in mainstream fluid mechanics based on Navier-Stokes equations, wherein fluids have been treated as a continuum breaking into many…
Physical vacuum is a special superfluid medium. Its motion is described by the Navier-Stokes equation having two slightly modified terms that relate to internal forces. They are the pressure gradient and the dissipation force because of…
The notion of inertial reference frame is abandoned and I replaced it by a local reference frame on which the fundamental law of mechanics is expressed. The distant interactions of cause and effect are modeled by the propagation of waves…
The paper extends a stabilized fictitious domain finite element method initially developed for the Stokes problem to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a moving solid. This method presents the advantage to predict an…
We propose a geometrical approach to the mechanics of continuous media equipped with inner structures and give the basic (mass conservation, Navier-Stokes and energy conservation) equations of their motion.
Consider an exterior space-time domain where the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and continuity equation hold with no bodies or force fields present, and smooth velocity at initial time. This is equivalent to the velocity being…
In this article we propose two finite element schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations, based on a reformulation that involves differential operators from the de Rham sequence and an advection operator with explicit skew-symmetry in weak…
Although the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) is derived under angular-momentum conservation (AMC), numerical simulation methods often lack it. Here, we reveal that AMC violations result from implementation of the degenerated viscous terms of…
This work is devoted to study the global existence of strong and classical solutions to compressible Navier-Stokes equations with or without density jump on the moving boundary for spherically symmetric motion. We establish a unified method…
We analyze two fully time-discrete numerical schemes for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on evolving surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with prescribed normal velocity using the evolving surface finite element method (ESFEM). We…
Introduction: the Navier-Stokes equations are essential in fluid dynamics, describing the motion of fluids like liquids and gases. Solving these equations, especially in complex flows and high-Reynolds-number regimes, is a significant…
The Navier-Stokes equation contains two terms which have been subjected to slight modification: (a) the viscosity term depends of time (the viscosity in average on time is zero, but its variance is non-zero), (b) the pressure gradient…
In part I of this paper, I proposed a new set of equations, which I refer to as the M(D,{\eta})-formulation and which differs from the Navier-Stokes-Fourier description of fluid motion. Here, I use these equations to model several classic…
In this work, a geometric discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations is sought by treating momentum as a covector-valued volume-form. The novelty of this approach is that we treat conservation of momentum as a tensor equation and…