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Large Eddy Simulations with flamelet-based thermochemistry are used to investigate the behaviour of a premixed hydrogen-air flame stabilised by a bluff-body. Validation against experimental data is carried out first to demonstrate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-20 Antonio Masucci , Gioele Ferrante , Tiziano Ghisu , Andrea Giusti , Ivan Langella

Droplet microfluidics, in which micro-droplets serve as individual reactors, has enabled a wide range of high-throughput biochemical processes. Unlike solid wells typically used in current biochemical assays, droplets are subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-03 Ya Gai , Andrea Montessori , Sauro Succi , Sindy K. Y. Tang

We present a position Langevin equation for overdamped particle motion on rough two-dimensional surfaces. A Brownian Dynamics algorithm is suggested to evolve this equation numerically, allowing for the prediction of effective (projected)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Naji , Frank L. H. Brown

We investigate the effect of cooperative interactions in an ensemble of microorganisms, modelled as self-propelled disk-like and rod-like particles, in a three-dimensional turbulent flow to show flocking as an emergent phenomenon. Building…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Anupam Gupta , Amal Roy , Arnab Saha , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Diffusion-driven flow is a boundary layer flow arising from the interplay of gravity and diffusion in density-stratified fluids when a gravitational field is non-parallel to an impermeable solid boundary. This study investigates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-23 Lingyun Ding

Odd diffusion breaks time-reversal symmetry in overdamped systems through transverse probability currents while preserving equilibrium steady states. In this work, we develop a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Iman Abdoli , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

The linear response description for impurity diffusion in a granular fluid undergoing homogeneous cooling is developed in the preceeding paper. The formally exact Einstein and Green-Kubo expressions for the self-diffusion coefficient are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 James Lutsko , J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty

We report on a comprehensive theory-simulation-experimental study of collective and self-diffusion in suspensions of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. In simulation and theory, the spheres interact by a hard-core plus screened Coulomb…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-13 Adolfo J. Banchio , Marco Heinen , Peter Holmqvist , Gerhard Nägele

The impact of turbulent mixing on the droplet size distribution is studied deep inside a warm ice-free cloud. A simplified cloud mixing model was implemented therefore which summarizes the balance equations of water vapor mixing ratio and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-18 Vladyslav Pushenko , Jörg Schumacher

Non-equilibrium collective behavior of self-propelled colloidal rods in a confining channel is studied using Brownian dynamics simulations and dynamical density functional theory. We observe an aggregation process in which rods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-06 H. H. Wensink , H. Löwen

In a growing number of strongly disordered and dense systems, the dynamics of a particle pulled by an external force field exhibits super-diffusion. In the context of glass forming systems, super cooled glasses and contamination spreading…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-18 Wanli Wang , Alessandro Vezzani , Raffaella Burioni , Eli Barkai

We propose a one-way coupled model that tracks individual primary particles in a conceptually simple cellular flow setup to predict flocculation in turbulence. This computationally efficient model accounts for Stokes drag, lubrication,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 K. Zhao , B. Vowinckel , T. -J. Hsu , T. Köllner , B. Bai , E. Meiburg

The mixing properties of vapor content, temperature and particle fields are of paramount importance in cloud turbulence as they pertain to essential processes, such as cloud water droplet evaporation and entrainment. Our study examines the…

The present work investigates the mechanical behaviour of finite-size, elastic and inertial fibres freely moving in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow at moderate Reynolds number. Fully-resolved, direct numerical simulations, based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-24 Stefano Olivieri , Andrea Mazzino , Marco E. Rosti

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced mass transport compared to diffusion without flow. An important framework used to characterize the long-time diffusive transport in position space is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Peng

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

A recent study [D. Helbing, A. Johansson and H. Z. Al-Abideen, {\it Phys. Rev. E} 75, 046109 (2007)] has revealed a "turbulent" state of pedestrian flows, which is characterized by sudden displacements and causes the falling and trampling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenjian Yu , Anders Johansson

A mode-coupling theory for the slow single-particle dynamics in fluids adsorbed in disordered porous media is derived, which complements previous work on the collective dynamics [V. Krakoviack, Phys. Rev. E 75, 031503 (2007)]. Its…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-06-10 V. Krakoviack

We study the dynamics of a tracer in a dense mixture of particles connected to different thermostats. Starting from the overdamped Langevin equations that describe the evolution of the system, we derive the expression of the self-diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-28 Marie Jardat , Vincent Dahirel , Pierre Illien