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Dependence of boundary layer thickness on layer height in laminar and transient regimes is studied for convection from localised heat source with an open surface. The measurements of Nusselt number and characteristic frequency of thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-03 Andrei Sukhanovskii , Anna Evgrafova

We study the effect of thermal fluctuations in the XY-model on a surface with non vanishing mean curvature and zero Gaussian curvature. Unlike Gaussian curvature that typically frustrates orientational order, the extrinsic curvature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-05 Carolina Brito , Vincenzo Vitelli , Olivier Dauchot

Overcoming diffraction limit is crucial for obtaining high-resolution image and observing fine microstructure. With this conventional difficulty still puzzling us and the prosperous development of wave dynamics of light interacting with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-21 Jingxuan Zhang , Chenni Xu , Patrick Sebbah , Li-Gang Wang

We analyze numerically the critical properties of a two-dimensional discretized random surface with extrinsic curvature embedded in a three-dimensional space. The use of the toroidal topology enables us to enforce the non-zero external…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ambjorn , A , Irback , J. Jurkiewicz , B. Petersson

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,…

Motivated by recent experimental observations, we consider a steady-state Prandtl-Blasius boundary layer flow with polymers above a slightly heated horizontal plate and study how the heat transport might be affected by the polymers. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Roberto Benzi , Emily S. C. Ching. , Vivien W. S. Chu

Models for fluid deformable surfaces provide valid theories to describe the dynamics of thin fluidic sheets of soft materials. To use such models in morphogenesis and development requires to incorporate active forces. We consider active…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Maik Porrmann , Axel Voigt

We consider a numerical scheme for the approximation of a system that couples the evolution of a two--dimensional hypersurface to a reaction--diffusion equation on the surface. The surfaces are assumed to be graphs and evolve according to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 Tim Whittaker , Romuald A. Janik , Yaron Oz

Heat transfer augmentation is an essential requirement in all heat transfer devices, such as heat exchangers used in biomedical applications, electronic cooling, solar air heaters, nuclear reactor cores, and gas turbine blade cooling etc.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-15 Auronil Mukherjee , Arnab Chakraborty

For a substance diffusing on a curved surface, we obtain an explicit relation valid for very small values of the time, between the local concentration, the diffusion coefficient, the intrinsic spatial curvature and the time. We recover the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Balakrishnan

We investigate the behaviour of vertices and inflexions on 1-parameter families of curves on smooth surfaces in the 3-space, which include a singular member. In particular, we discuss the context where the curves evolve as sections of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Andre Diatta , Peter J. Giblin

The present paper studies the effects of thermal radiation and mass diffusion on MHD flow over a vertical plate that applies time dependent shear to the fluid. This study is meant to provide framework for improved thermal system where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-20 N. Shahid

The analysis of 3D symmetric second-order tensor fields often relies on topological features such as degenerate tensor lines, neutral surfaces, and their generalization to mode surfaces, which reveal important structural insights into the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tim Gerrits

Many physical situations are characterized by interfaces with a non trivial shape so that relevant geometric features, such as interfacial area, curvature or unit normal vector, can be used as main indicators of the topology of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Giuseppe Orlando , Paolo Francesco Barbante , Luca Bonaventura

For a parabolic surface partial differential equation coupled to surface evolution, convergence of the spatial semidiscretization is studied in this paper. The velocity of the evolving surface is not given explicitly, but depends on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

We discuss the properties of an analytical solution for waves in radiating fluids, with a view towards its implementation as a quantitative test of radiation hydrodynamics codes. A homogeneous radiating fluid in local thermodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-17 Bryan M. Johnson Richard I. Klein

We present a geometric framework for regression on structured high-dimensional data that shifts the analysis from the ambient space to a geometric object capturing the data's intrinsic structure. The method addresses a fundamental challenge…

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We indicate the fundamental rationale underlying the control of temperature and the manipulation of thermal flux, with reference to a multilayered composite material. We show that when the orientation of the layers in the composite is…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-29 Krishna. P. Vemuri , P. R. Bandaru