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In this paper we describe a method to derive solutions of the incompressible Navier- Stokes system of equations for non-stationary initial value problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that for a given smooth solenoidal initial velocity vector…
We study the stability of Stokes waves on a free surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. For small steepness the modulational instability dominates the dynamics, but its growth rate is vastly surpassed for steeper waves by an…
Stokes drift has been as central to the history of wave theory as it has been distressingly absent from experiment. Neither wave tanks nor experiments in open bodies detect this without nearly canceling "eulerian flows." Acoustic waves have…
We study exact solutions for the slow viscous flow of an infinite liquid caused by two rigid spheres approaching each either along or parallel to their line of centres, valid at all separations. This goes beyond the applicable range of…
Explicit expressions are derived for the matrices determining the mean translational and rotational swimming velocities and the mean rate of dissipation for Stokesian swimming at low Reynolds number of a distorting sphere in a viscous…
We integrate in closed implicit form the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid and the kinematical dynamo equation, in smooth manifolds and Euclidean space. This integration is carried out by applying Stochastic Differential…
The results of an experimental investigation of a sphere performing torsional oscillations in a Stokes flow are presented. A novel experimental set up was developed which enabled the motion of the sphere to be remotely controlled through…
In this note, we study the behaviour of Lebesgue norms $\|v(\cdot,t)\|_p$ of solutions $v$ to the Cauchy problem for the Stokes system with drift $u$, which is supposed to be a divergence free smooth vector valued function satisfying a…
We address Euler's equations for irrotational gravity waves in an infinitely deep fluid rewritten in conformal variables. Stokes waves are traveling waves with the smooth periodic profile. In agreement with the previous numerical results,…
Irrotational and monochromatic surface gravity waves possess a mean Lagrangian drift which transports mass and enhances mixing in the upper ocean. In the ocean, where many surface waves are present, it is commonly assumed that the mean…
In this paper, we consider the Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions and the constant kinematic viscosity $\nu$ in an axis-aligned domain $\Omega$. We decouple the velocity $\bm u$ and pressure $p$ by deriving a novel biharmonic…
We consider traveling waves on a surface of an ideal fluid of finite depth. The equation describing Stokes waves in conformal variables formulation are referred to as the Babenko equation. We use a Newton-Conjugate-Gradient method to…
In this paper we study the Gauss and Kummer hypergeometric equations in depth. In particular, we focus on the confluence of two regular singularities of the Gauss hypergeometric equation to produce the Kummer hypergeometric equation with an…
We generalize the results of Ambrosio [Invent. Math. 158 (2004), 227--260] on the existence, uniqueness and stability of regular Lagrangian flows of ordinary differential equations to Stratonovich stochastic differential equations with BV…
A coarse-grained particle model for incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equation is proposed based on spatial filtering by utilizing smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) approximations. This model is similar to our previous developed SPH…
Through the asymptotic expansion, the large-time behavior of the incompressible Navier-Stokes flow in $n$-dimensional whole space is drawn. In particular, the logarithmic evolution included in the flow velocity is the focus of attention.…
In the present report, by using the Stokes-Helmholtz decomposition theorem the 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) is uncoupled and transformed into a scalar equation for the velocity potential when the flow field is toroidal. The…
In the study of low-speed or low-Froude flows of a potential gravity-driven fluid past a wave-generating object, the traditional asymptotic expansion in powers of the Froude number predicts a waveless free-surface at every order. This is…
The force per unit area on the surface of a colloidal particle is a fundamental dynamical quantity in the mechanics and statistical mechanics of colloidal suspensions. Here we compute it in the limit of slow viscous flow for a suspension of…
We provide a integration of Navier-Stokes equations concerning the unsteady-state laminar flow of an incompressible, isothermal (newtonian) fluid in a cylindrical vessel spinning about its symmetry axis, say $z$, and inside which the liquid…