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We consider a two-dimensional motion of a thin film flowing down an inclined plane under the influence of the gravity and the surface tension. In order to investigate the stability of such flow, it is hard to treat the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Hiroki Ueno , Akinori Shiraishi , Tatsuo Iguchi

The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a junction of unbounded channels with sources and sinks is modeled through the Navier-Stokes equations under inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. In contrast to many previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Filippo Gazzola , Mikhail V. Korobkov , Xiao Ren , Gianmarco Sperone

We investigate the steady self-propelled motion of a rigid body immersed in a three-dimensional incompressible viscous fluid governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. The analysis is performed in a body-fixed reference frame, so that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Sarka Necasova , Arnab Roy , Ana Leonor Silvestre

The question of whether significant sub-volumes of a turbulent flow can be identified by automatic means, independently of a-priori assumptions, is addressed using the example of two-dimensional decaying turbulence. Significance is defined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-10 Javier Jimenez

The minimalist approach in the study of perturbations in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics involves describing their evolution in the linear regime using a single first-order ordinary differential equation, dubbed principal equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Nektarios Vlahakis

Systematic deflection of microparticles off of initial streamlines is a fundamental task in microfluidics, aiming at applications including sorting, accumulation, or capture of the transported particles. In a large class of setups,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Partha Kumar Das , Xuchen Liu , Sascha Hilgenfeldt

This paper presents a topology optimization approach for surface flows, which can represent the viscous and incompressible fluidic motions at the solid/liquid and liquid/vapor interfaces. The fluidic motions on such material interfaces can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Yongbo Deng , Weihong Zhang , Jihong Zhu , Junqiang Bai , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

Regularity and uniqueness of weak solution of the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations is proven for small time in dimension $N=2,3$ under periodic boundary conditions. In this paper, the initial density is not required to have a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Boris Haspot

We introduce a new approach to Monge-Ampere geometry based on techniques from higher symplectic geometry. Our work is motivated by the application of Monge-Ampere geometry to the Poisson equation for the pressure that arises for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Lewis Napper , Ian Roulstone , Vladimir Rubtsov , Martin Wolf

The theory of perfect fluids is reconsidered from the point of view of a covariant Lagrangian theory. It has been shown that the Euler-Lagrange equations for a perfect fluid could be found in spaces with affine connections and metrics from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sawa Manoff

Traditional computational fluid dynamics and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often suffer from high computational cost, mesh sensitivity, and reduced accuracy for strongly nonlinear and time-dependent flows. To address these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Biswanath Barman , Debdeep Chatterjee , Rajendra K. Ray

Although the existence of dissipative weak solutions for the compressible Navier-Stokes system has already been established for any finite energy initial data, uniqueness is still an open problem. The idea is then to select a solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Danica Basarić

In the laminar mode interactions among molecules generate friction between layers of water that slide with respect to each other. This friction triggers the shear stress, which is traditionally presumed to be linearly proportional to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-21 K. Y. Volokh

In this paper, we derive reduced models for the motion of gas bubbles in an ambient inviscid liquid, using Hamilton's least action principle. We first explain how to recover from this principle the classical sharp interface model, in which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Cosmin Burtea , David Gérard-Varet

The general concern of this paper is the effect of rough boundaries on fluids. We consider a stationary flow, governed by incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, in an infinite domain bounded by two horizontal rough plates. The roughness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Arnaud Basson , David Gerard-Varet

This investigation concerns a systematic search for potentially singular behavior in 3D Navier-Stokes flows. Enstrophy serves as a convenient indicator of the regularity of solutions to the Navier Stokes system --- as long as this quantity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-12 Di Kang , Dongfang Yun , Bartosz Protas

Topology optimization of natural convection problems is computationally expensive, due to the large number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) in the model and its two-way coupled nature. Herein, a method is presented to reduce the computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Janus Asmussen , Joe Alexandersen , Ole Sigmund , Casper Schousboe Andreasen

The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu

We prove the low Mach number limit from compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with the general pressure law around a constant state on the torus $\mathbb{T}^N_a$. We view this limit as a special case of the weakly nonlinear-dissipative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Yuhan Chen , Guilong Gui , Zhen Hao , Ning Jiang

In this work we consider the generalized Navier-Stoke equations with the presence of a damping term in the momentum equation. % The problem studied here derives from the set of equations which govern the isothermal flow of incompressible,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Hermenegildo Borges de Oliveira