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Cracks in thin layers are influenced by what lies beneath them. From buried craters to crocodile skin, crack patterns are found over an enormous range of length scales. Regardless of absolute size, their substrates can dramatically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-15 Pawan Nandakishore , Lucas Goehring

The propagation of surface water waves interacting with a current and an uneven bottom is studied. Such a situation is typical for ocean waves where the winds generate currents in the top layer of the ocean. The role of the bottom…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alan C. Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin , Michail D. Todorov

Using the same measurement techniques as those of Saket et al. (2017), we have investigated the breaking threshold proposed by Barthelemy et al. (arXiv:1508.06002v1, 2015b) but for different classes of unforced unidirectional wave groups in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Arvin Saket , William L. Peirson , Michael L. Banner , Michael J. Allis

This paper explores the friction forces encountered by droplets on non-wetting surfaces, specifically focusing on superhydrophobic and superheated substrates. Employing a combination of experimental techniques, including inclined plane…

Aerobreakup of fluid droplets under the influence of impulsively generated high-speed gas flow using an open-ended shock tube is studied using experiments and numerical simulations. Breakup of mm-sized droplets at high Weber number was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-24 James Leung , Mohana Gurunadhan , Shyam Menon

The evolution of breaking waves propagating towards the shore and more specifically the run-up phase over the swash-zone for surface as well as for internal waves is considered. The study is based on a) laboratory run up experiments for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-02-01 Hubert Branger , Olivier Kimmoun , N. Gavrilov , Valery Liapidevskii , E. Pavlova

In this article, we have developed a computational model to determine the droplet formation regime and its transition in a square microfluidic flow-focusing device that eventually dictate the droplet shape, size, and its formation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Somasekhara Goud Sontti , Arnab Atta

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

Internal waves shoaling on the continental slope can break and form materially coherent vortices called boluses. These boluses are able to trap and transport material up the continental slope, yet the global extent of bolus transport is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-27 Guilherme S. Vieira , Michael R. Allshouse

Droplet-based microfluidics turned out to be an efficient and adjustable platform for digital analysis, encapsulation of cells, drug formulation, and polymerase chain reaction. Typically, for most biomedical applications, the handling of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-30 Enrico Chiarello , Anupam Gupta , Giampaolo Mistura , Mauro Sbragaglia , Matteo Pierno

A two-phase Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model has been developed on the basis of GPUSPH, which is an open-source implementation of the weakly compressible SPH method on graphics processing units, to investigate oil dispersion…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Zhangping Wei , Huabin Shi , Cheng Li , Joseph Katz , Robert A. Dalrymple , Giuseppe Bilotta

Recent experiments with droplets impacting a macro-textured superhydrophobic surfaces revealed new regimes of bouncing with a remarkable reduction of the contact time. We present here a comprehensive numerical study that reveals the physics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Ali Mazloomi Moqaddam , Shyam S. Chikatamarla , Ilya Karlin

We present results from an individual particle based model for the collision, coagulation and fragmentation of heavy drops moving in a turbulent flow. Such a model framework can help to bridge the gap between the full hydrodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jens C. Zahnow , Ulrike Feudel

Understanding transport processes in complex nanoscale systems, like ionic conductivities in nanofluidic devices or heat conduction in low dimensional solids, poses the problem of examining fluctuations of currents within nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David T. Limmer , Chloe Y. Gao , Anthony R. Poggioli

The process of frictional rupture, i.e. the failure of frictional systems, abounds in the technological and natural world around us, ranging from squealing car brake pads to earthquakes along geological faults. A general framework for…

The presence of one or more species at some spatial locations but not others is a central matter in ecology. This phenomenon is related to ecological pattern formation. Nonlocal interactions can be considered as one of the mechanisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Ozgur Aydogmus

Secondary fragmentation of an impulsively accelerated drop depends on fluid properties and velocity of the ambient. The critical Weber number $(\mathit{We}_{cr})$, the minimum Weber number at which a drop undergoes non-vibrational breakup,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-17 Aditya Parik , Tadd Truscott , Som Dutta

The basic strategy underlying models of spontaneous wave function collapse (collapse models) is to modify the Schroedinger equation by including nonlinear stochastic terms, which tend to localize wave functions in space in a dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Bassi , H. Ulbricht

A drop impacting a solid surface with sufficient velocity will emit many small droplets creating a splash. However, splashing is completely suppressed if the surrounding gas pressure is lowered. The mechanism by which the gas affects…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Michelle M. Driscoll , Sidney R. Nagel

Wind-forced near-inertial waves (NIWs) propagate through a sea of mesoscale eddies, which can fundamentally alter their evolution. The nature of this NIW--mesoscale interaction depends on how dispersive the waves are. For weakly dispersive…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Scott Conn , Jörn Callies