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This work introduces a mathematical approach to analysing the polymer dynamics in turbulent viscoelastic flows that uses a new geometric decomposition of the conformation tensor, along with associated scalar measures of the polymer…

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The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

We investigate the energetics of droplets sourced by the thermal fluctuations in a system undergoing a first-order transition. In particular, we confine our studies to two dimensions with explicit calulations in the plane and on the sphere.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-27 Eric M. Horsley , Maxim O. Lavrentovich , Randall D. Kamien

Diffusive representations of fractional derivatives have proven to be useful tools in the construction of fast and memory efficient numerical methods for solving fractional differential equations. A common challenge in many of the known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Kai Diethelm

The influence of the boundary layer properties on the heat transport in turbulent thermal convection is experimentally investigated in a cell with a rough bottom plate.It is shown that the standard 2/7 exponent of the convective heat flow…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ciliberto , C. Laroche

We analyze the propagation properties of the numerical versions of one and two-dimensional wave equations, semi-discretized in space by finite difference schemes. We focus on high-frequency solutions whose propagation can be described, both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Umberto Biccari , Aurora Marica , Enrique Zuazua

Grid independent is associated with the accuracy or even rationality of numerical results. This paper takes two-dimensional steady heat transfer for example to reveal the effect of grid resolution on numerical results. The law of grid…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yao Wei , Wang Jian , Liao Guangxuan

Following the recent research enthusiasm on the effect of geometry on near-field heat transfer (NFHT) enhancement, we present an analysis based on simplified yet highly efficient graphene and nanotube models. Two geometries are considered:…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Kristo Nugraha Lian , Jian-Sheng Wang

This paper deals with the formulation and numerical implementation of a fully coupled continuum model for deformation-diffusion in linearized elastic solids. The mathematical model takes into account the effect of the deformation on the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-07 M. K. Mudunuru , K. B. Nakshatrala

The conventional assumption that the self-diffusion coefficient of a small tracer can be obtained by a local and instantaneous application of Einstein's relation in a temperature field with spatial and temporal heterogeneity is revisited.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ramin Golestanian , Armand Ajdari

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar

Topological insulating phases are usually found in periodic lattices stemming from collective resonant effects, and it may thus be expected that similar features may be prohibited in thermal diffusion, given its purely dissipative and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Guoqiang Xu , Yihao Yang , Xue Zhou , Hongsheng Chen , Andrea Alu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

In this letter, we discuss how flow inhomogeneity affects the self-diffusion behavior in granular flows. Whereas self-diffusion scalings have been well characterized in the past for homogeneous shearing, the effect of shear localization and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-26 Riccardo Artoni , Michele Larcher , James Jenkins , Patrick Richard

Symplectic numerical schemes for reversible dynamical systems predict the solution reliably over large times as well, and are a good starting point for extension to schemes for simulating irreversible situations like viscoelastic wave…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Donát M. Takács , Áron Pozsár , Tamás Fülöp

Consider the three-dimensional flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid upon an abitrarily curved substrate when the fluid film is thin as occurs in many draining, coating and biological flows. We derive a model of the dynamics of the film, the…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 R. Valery Roy , A. J. Roberts , M. E. Simpson

Conducting materials typically exhibit either diffusive or ballistic charge transport. However, when electron-electron interactions dominate, a hydrodynamic regime with viscous charge flow emerges (1-13). More stringent conditions…

The paper considers the heat transfer characteristics of a thin film flow over a hot horizontal flat plate resulting from a cold vertical liquid jet falling onto a surface. A numerical solution of high accuracy is obtained for large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-07 Jian-Jun Shu , Graham Wilks

The flat metasurfaces described by tensor surface conductivity, the transverse size of which is small compared to the wavelength, are considered. In this case, we introduce two-dimensional surface conductivity for them, as well as for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Michael V. Davidovich

We study the long-time behaviour of the temperature-driven compressible flows. We show that numerical solutions of a structure-preserving finite volume method generate a discrete attractor that consists of entire discrete trajectories.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Eduard Feireisl , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Bangwei She , Yuhuan Yuan

In this work we first study the quantum diffusion in a volume of a crystalline solid at high interstitial concentrations when the effects of the short-range interactions between the diffusing particles are to be factors. Within the scope of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder , V. N. Shapov