English
Related papers

Related papers: A caustic terminating at an inflection point

200 papers

We investigate the behaviour of vertices and inflexions on 1-parameter families of curves on smooth surfaces in the 3-space, which include a singular member. In particular, we discuss the context where the curves evolve as sections of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Andre Diatta , Peter J. Giblin

Using complementary numerical approaches at high resolution, we study the late-time behaviour of an inviscid, incompressible two-dimensional flow on the surface of a sphere. Starting from a random initial vorticity field comprised of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-08 David G. Dritschel , Wanming Qi , J. B. Marston

We investigate the formation of acoustic horizons for an inviscid fluid moving in a pipe in the case of stationary and axi-symmetric flow. We show that, differently from what is generally believed, the acoustic horizon forms in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Cadoni , P. Pani

One can often see caustic by reflection in nature, but it is rather hard to understand the way of how caustic arise and which geometric properties of a mirror surface define the geometry of the caustic. The caustic by reflection has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Alexander Yampolsky , Oleksandr Fursenko

Superfluorescent decay in a weakly disordered slab is considered. By solving the Maxwell-Bloch equations we show, that the cooperation number increases with increasing of the mean free path. Superfluorescent impulse is emitted at a small…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Zyuzin

The spatial characteristics and structure of an axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer under strong adverse pressure gradient and weak transverse curvature are investigated using incompressible large-eddy simulation. The boundary layer is on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Di Zhou , Kan Wang , Meng Wang

A scroll wave in a very thin layer of excitable medium is similar to a spiral wave, but its behaviour is affected by the layer geometry. We identify the effect of sharp variations of the layer thickness, which is separate from filament…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-13 I. V. Biktasheva , H. Dierckx , V. N. Biktashev

We describe the structure of the asymptotic lines near an inflection point of a Lagrangean surface, proving that in the generic situation it corresponds to two of the three possible cases when the discriminant curve has a cusp singularity.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-01 J. Basto-Gonçalves

For a given smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which is centered at the origin, we investigate the evolution of strictly mean convex hypersurfaces, which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

Over the past decade, the edge of chaos has proven to be a fruitful starting point for investigations of shear flows when the laminar base flow is linearly stable. Numerous computational studies of shear flows demonstrated the existence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-06 Nazmi Burak Budanur , Björn Hof

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells), two-band models with any complex couplings and open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Janet Zhong , Heming Wang , Alexander N Poddubny , Shanhui Fan

We study numerically a succession of transitions in pipe Poiseuille flow that leads from simple travelling waves to waves with chaotic time-dependence. The waves at the origin of the bifurcation cascade possess a shift-reflect symmetry and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-04 Fernando Mellibovsky , Bruno Eckhardt

The curvature field is measured from tracer particle trajectories in a two-dimensional fluid flow that exhibits spatiotemporal chaos, and is used to extract the hyperbolic and elliptic points of the flow. These special points are pinned to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas T. Ouellette , J. P. Gollub

We show that through a point of an affine variety there always exists a smooth plane curve inside the ambient affine space, which has the multiplicity of intersection with the variety at least 3. This result has an application to the study…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Anvar R. Mavlyutov

We conducted a numerical simulation of ventilated supercavitation from a forward-facing cavitator in unsteady flows generated by a gust generator under different gust angles of attack and gust frequencies. The numerical method is validated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-21 Renfang Huang , Siyao Shao , Roger E A Arndt , Xianwu Luo , Jiarong Hong

We study the scalar, conformally invariant wave equation on a four-dimensional Minkowski background in spherical symmetry, using a fully pseudospectral numerical scheme. Thereby, our main interest is in a suitable treatment of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Jörg Frauendiener , Jörg Hennig

An experimental study is reported of the near-critical reflection of internal gravity waves over sloping topography in a stratified fluid. An overturning instability close to the slope and triggering the boundary-mixing process is observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Dauxois , Anthony Didier , Eric Falcon

We consider the problem of 2D supersonic flow onto a solid wedge, or equivalently in a concave corner formed by two solid walls. For mild corners, there are two possible steady state solutions, one with a strong and one with a weak shock…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Volker Elling , Tai-Ping Liu

The interplay among the spectrum, geometry and magnetic field in tubular neighbourhoods of curves in Euclidean spaces is investigated in the limit when the cross section shrinks to a point. Proving a norm resolvent convergence, we derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 David Krejcirik , Nicolas Raymond

As one of the violent flow, tornadoes occur in many place of the world. In order to reduce human losses and material damage caused by tornadoes, there are many research methods. One of the effective methods is numerical simulations such as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Pen-Yuan Hsu , Hirofumi Notsu , Tsuyoshi Yoneda