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A fundamental difficulty of studying gas-liquid pipe flows is the prediction of the occurrence and characteristics of the slug flow regime, which plays a crucial role in the safety design of oil pipelines. Current empirical methods and…

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In this paper, we present a Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) in Petrov-Galerkin formulation for a two-scale Helmholtz-type problem. The two-scale problem is, for instance, motivated from the homogenization of the Helmholtz equation…

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We propose the Lowner--John deform-cloud scheme as a Lagrangian diagnostic for incompressible stochastic flows with an inertial range. A volume-filled particle cloud is released at the ultraviolet scale and summarized at each time by two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Michael Chertkov

Coarse-grain Lagrangian methods, such as Dissipative Particle Dynamics ( Hoogerbrugge et al., EPL, 1992), are suitable for describing mesoscopic fluid systems that include thermal fluctuations. However, the realistic simulation of liquids…

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Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT) enables practitioners to study various concepts in turbulence by measuring particle positions in flows of interest. This data is subject to measurement errors, and filtering techniques are applied to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-16 Griffin M. Kearney , Kasey M. Laurent , Reece V. Kearney

The phase separation between two immiscible liquids advected by a bidimensional velocity field is investigated numerically by solving the corresponding Cahn-Hilliard equation. We study how the spinodal decomposition process depends on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ludovic Berthier , Jean-Louis Barrat , Jorge Kurchan

Lagrangian averaging plays an important role in the analysis of wave--mean-flow interactions and other multiscale fluid phenomena. The numerical computation of Lagrangian means, e.g. from simulation data, is however challenging. Typical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 Hossein A. Kafiabad , Jacques Vanneste

We consider the relationship between Eulerian modal decompositions and Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs). The model sensitivity framework developed by Kasz\'as and Haller (2020) is used to express data-driven modal representations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Morgan R. Jones , Charles Klewicki , Oliver Khan , Steven L. Brunton , Mitul Luhar

Recent advances in data-driven modeling have shown that diffusion models can successfully generate synthetic Lagrangian trajectories in turbulent flows. Building on this progress, we extend the method to the joint generation of pairs of…

We propose a novel variant of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) method for time-harmonic scattering problems of Helmholtz type with high wavenumber $\kappa$. On a coarse mesh of width $H$, the proposed method identifies local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Daniel Peterseim

Partial differential equations (PDE) often involve parameters, such as viscosity or density. An analysis of the PDE may involve considering a large range of parameter values, as occurs in uncertainty quantification, control and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Michael Schneier

Heavy particles suspended in turbulent flow possess inertia and are ejected from violent vortical structures by centrifugal forces. Once piled up along particle paths, this small-scale mechanism leads to an effective large-scale drift. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Jérémie Bec , Robin Vallée

We numerically investigate the feasibility and limits of jointly estimating flow fields and unknown particle properties (e.g., position, size, and density) from Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) data. LPT offers time-resolved, volumetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ke Zhou , Samuel J. Grauer

Mode-based model-reduction is used to reduce the degrees of freedom of high dimensional systems, often by describing the system state by a linear combination of spatial modes. Transport dominated phenomena, ubiquitous in technical and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Julius Reiss

We propose a multiscale method for mixed-dimensional elliptic problems with highly heterogeneous coefficients arising, for example, in the modeling of fractured porous media. The method is based on the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition…

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We develop a new Lagrangian material particle -- dynamical domain decomposition method (MPD^3) for large scale parallel molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of nonstationary heterogeneous systems on a heterogeneous computing net. MPD^3 is…

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This work proposes a computational multiscale method for the mixed formulation of a second-order linear elliptic equation subject to a homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, based on a stable localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Patrick Henning , Hao Li , Timo Sprekeler

A novel data-driven method of modal analysis for complex flow dynamics, termed as reduced-order variational mode decomposition (RVMD), has been proposed, combining the idea of the separation of variables and a state-of-the-art nonstationary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-27 Zi-Mo Liao , Zhiye Zhao , Liang-Bing Chen , Zhen-Hua Wan , Nan-Sheng Liu , Xi-Yun Lu

Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems related to the physics of dispersion and mixing in engineering, bio-fluids, atmosphere, oceans, and astrophysics. Despite exceptional theoretical,…