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Observations show that maximally-steep breaking water wave crest speeds are much slower than expected. We report a wave-crest slowdown mechanism generic to unsteady propagating deep water wave groups. Our fully nonlinear computations show…

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Characterizing the interaction between water and microscopic defects is one of the long-standing challenges in understanding a broad range of cracking processes. Different physical aspects of microscopic events, driven or influenced by…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-12 H. O. Ghaffari , W. A. Griffith , P. M. Benson

We present an investigation of the fundamental physical processes involved in deep water wave breaking. Our motivation is to identify the underlying reason causing the deficiency of the eddy viscosity breaking model (EVBM) in predicting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 Anatoliy Khait , Zhihua Ma

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory signal that provides a promising probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first computation of memory from full inspiral--merger--ringdown waveforms in a theory beyond GR,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Silvia Gasparotto

We report numerical simulations of surface gravity waves forced at small scale and the subsequent inverse cascade of wave action. We combine the spectral approach to simulating weakly nonlinear waves with the capabilities of modern Graphics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 CHristopher Higgins , Basile Gallet

We present a method for converting a time record of turbulent velocity measured at a point in a flow to a spatial velocity record consisting of consecutive convection elements. The spatial record allows computation of dynamic statistical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-18 Preben Buchhave , Clara M. Velte

Gravitational waves potentially represent our only direct probe of the universe when it was less than one second old. In particular, first-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate a stochastic background of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky , Grigol Gogoberidze , Yurii Maravin

Laser-induced cavitation under nanosecond optical breakdown is central to applications such as laser-induced forward transfer, microsurgery, and microfluidic actuation, yet the physical origin of the earliest cavity and its connection to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Shuqi Zhou , Abdol Hadi Mokarizadeh , Ben Xu

The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giovanni Lapenta , Martin Goldman , David Newman , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin

In this thesis we investigate the instabilities of superfluids at finite superflow by means of a hydrodynamical approach. We find that at a finite value of the background superfluid velocity a hydrodynamic collective mode crosses to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Filippo Sottovia

A concept of kinetic energy in quantum mechanics is analyzed. Kinetic energy is a non-zero positive value in many cases of bound states, when a wave function is a real-valued one and there are no visible motion and flux. This can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-08-07 Yuri Kornyushin

We develop a theory of turbulence of weak random gravity waves on surface of deep water in which the main nonlinear process at high-frequency part of the spectrum is a nonlocal interaction with a strong low-frequency component. The latter…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. O. Korotkevich , S. V. Nazarenko , Y. Pan , J. Shatah

The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose actual waveform can be hard to model. In order to identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Zheng Wu , Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Ik Siong Heng

In this study, we investigated numerically the backdraft phenomenon under different gravity conditions and 4 openings using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) code. Four different opening geometries are studied under ten different gravity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Vijayananda V. Devananda , Tarek Echekki

The geometries of surface wave modes are determined by the highly nontrivial interplay of capillarity and wetting effects at the boundaries of their domain. Aside from idealised scenarios, this commonly leads to unknown boundary conditions,…

The reheating of the universe after hybrid inflation proceeds through the nucleation and subsequent collision of large concentrations of energy density in the form of bubble-like structures moving at relativistic speeds. This generates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-29 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Daniel G. Figueroa

Electron irradiation is essential for materials characterization and modification, though the fundamental interactions between incident electrons and host materials remain under investigation. Here, we employ first-principles simulations to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-14 Yifan Yao , Andre Schleife

We report on the experimental study of axisymmetric gravity-capillary standing waves generated by a vertically vibrating ring partially immersed into a fluid. Different regimes of standing waves are highlighted at the basin center depending…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jules Fillette , Stéphan Fauve , Eric Falcon

It is generally accepted that a first ever direct detection of gravity waves would herald a new era in astronomy and in fundamental physics. Ever since the early sixties, increasingly larger human and material resources are being invested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Redouane Fakir

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant