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Oscillation and collective behavior in convection-driven fluid columns are investigated and discussed in analogy with similar phenomenon observed for the flickering flames of candle bundles. It is shown experimentally that an ascending…

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Oscillating chemical reactions result from complex periodic changes in the concentration of the reactants. In spatially ordered ensembles of candle flame oscillators the fluctuations in the ratio of oxygen atoms with respect to that of…

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Small-scale flickering buoyant diffusion flames in externally swirling flows were computationally investigated with a particular interest in identifying and characterizing various distinct dynamical behaviors of the flame oscillators under…

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Oscillation can be observed in candle flames under certain circumstances. This research theoretically proposed an hydrodynamic-instability-based approach towards the oscillation and coupling of candle flames, claiming that the visible flame…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-02 Xiaoyue Ma , Tianyi Gu

The triple-flame system serves as the fundamental unit for understanding multi-flame interactions, revealing critical coupling mechanisms that scale to complex burner arrays. In this study, we investigated triple flame oscillators,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Hanxu Wang , Tao Yang , Yicheng Chi , Zhenyu Zhang , Peng Zhang

Annular chambers, consisting of multiple flame nozzles, are frequently used in many industrial processes, for example, rocket engines and gas turbines. In the study, we proposed a novel approach to the problem of annular combustion with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-04 Tao Yang , Yuan Ma , Peng Zhang

Triple flickering buoyant diffusion flames in an isosceles triangle arrangement were experimentally studied as a nonlinear dynamical system of coupled oscillators. The objective of the study is two-fold: to establish a well-controlled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-19 Yicheng Chi , Tao Yang , Peng Zhang

Previous studies have found that the flickering of buoyant diffusion flames is associated with the periodic shedding of a toroidal vortex, which is formed under gravity-induced shearing at the flames. Moreover, numerous experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-13 Xi Xia , Peng Zhang

Flickering buoyant diffusion methane flames in weakly rotatory flows were computationally and theoretically investigated. The prominent computational finding is that the flicker frequency nonlinearly increases with the rotational intensity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-06 Tao Yang , Peng Zhang

A flame exhibits a limit-cycle oscillation, which is called "flame flickering" or "puffing", in a certain condition. We investigated the bifurcation structure of the flame oscillation in both simulation and experiment. We performed a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-21 Yuki Araya , Hiroaki Ito , Hiroyuki Kitahata

This study investigated the pulsating instability of burner-stabilized premixed CH4-O2 flames at various levels of CO2 dilution. Experiments were conducted using a water-cooled porous-plug burner of 18 mm diameter over a wide range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-23 Xiangyu Nie , Shuoxun Zhang , Shengkai Wang

Triple flickering buoyant diffusion flames as a nonlinear dynamical system of coupled oscillators were computationally investigated. The four distinct dynamical modes (in-phase, death, rotation, and partial in-phase) observed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-06 Tao Yang , Yicheng Chi , Peng Zhang

Understanding the global dynamical behaviour of a network of coupled oscillators has been a topic of immense research in many fields of science and engineering. Various factors govern the resulting dynamical behaviour of such networks,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-07-19 Krishna Manoj , Samadhan A. Pawar , R. I. Sujith

Self-oscillations underlie many natural phenomena such as heartbeat, ocean waves, and the pulsation of variable stars. From pendulum clocks to the behavior of animal groups, self-oscillation is one of the keys to the understanding of…

A simple system composed of electronic oscillators capable of emitting and detecting light-pulses is studied. The oscillators are biologically inspired, their behavior is designed for keeping a desired light intensity, W, in the system.…

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We study the dynamics of atoms interacting periodically with a dissipative optical cavity and employ Floquet theory to analyze their low-frequency behavior. By means of an effective atom-only master equation, valid in the bad cavity regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Gage W. Harmon , Giovanna Morigi , Simon B. Jäger

A premixed flame on a circular porous plug burner can form cellular flames, which are ordered patterns of concentric rings of brighter, hotter regions separated by darker, cooler cusps and folds. These ordered states bifurcate to dynamic…

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In this letter, we report a numerical study on the collective dynamics of two mutually coupled Thomas oscillators with linear/nonlinear coupling in a dynamic environment. We claim our model calculations can explain the diffusion of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Vinesh Vijayan , Biplab Ganguli

Flocking is a paradigmatic example of collective animal behaviour, where decentralized interaction rules give rise to a globally ordered state. In the emergence of order out of self-organization we find similarities between biological…

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We consider the dynamics of monodisperse bubbly fluid confined by two plane solid walls and subjected to small-amplitude high-frequency transversal oscillations. The frequency these oscillations is assumed to be high in comparison with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergey Shklyaev , Arthur V. Straube
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