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We present a new approach to studies of bubble dynamics in fluids. Relying on particle-based simulations, this method is general and suitable for cases where the commonly used perfect fluid description fails. We study expanding true vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

We study how bubbles grow after the initial nucleation event in generic first-order cosmological phase transitions characterised by the values of latent heat, interface tension and correlation length, and driven by a scalar order parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ignatius , K. Kajantie , H. Kurki-Suonio , M. Laine

We study slow-down effects for bubbles formed in a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) focusing on deflagrations and hybrids, where the bubble wall is preceded by a shockwave of heated plasma. Slow-down has been observed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Nabeen Bhusal , Simone Blasi , Thomas Konstandin , Enrico Perboni , Jorinde van de Vis

In standard (symmetry-breaking) first-order phase transitions, the frictional pressure on expanding bubble walls can be dominated by transition radiation -- the emission of a gauge boson with phase-dependent masses as particles present in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Andrew J. Long , Bibhushan Shakya , Julia Anabell Ziegler

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the progress of true-vacuum bubbles is expected to be significantly retarded by the interaction between the bubble wall and the hot plasma. It has been claimed that this leads to a significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew Lilley , Antonio Ferrera

We study the dynamics of cosmological phase transitions in the case of small velocities of bubble walls, $v_w<0.1$. We discuss the conditions in which this scenario arises in a physical model, and we compute the development of the phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ariel Megevand , Santiago Ramirez

We build on existing calculations of the wall velocity of the expanding bubbles of the broken symmetry phase in a first-order electroweak phase transition within the light stop scenario (LSS) of the MSSM. We carry out the analysis using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Stephan J. Huber , Miguel Sopena

We discuss a hydrodynamic obstruction to bubble wall acceleration during a cosmological first-order phase transition. The obstruction results from the heating of the plasma in the compression wave in front of the phase transition boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Thomas Konstandin , Jose M. No

The study of the hydrodynamics of bubble growth in first-order phase transitions is very relevant for electroweak baryogenesis, as the baryon asymmetry depends sensitively on the bubble wall velocity, and also for predicting the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jose R. Espinosa , Thomas Konstandin , Jose M. No , Geraldine Servant

Recently, experimental series of co-current gas-liquid upward bubbly flows in a 6 m-height and 54.8 mm i.d. vertical titanium pipe had been conducted at the TOPFLOW thermal hydraulic test facility, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-10 Hadiyan Yusuf Kuntoro , Manuel Banowski , Deendarlianto

First order phase transitions could play a major role in the early universe, providing important phenomenological consequences, such as the production of gravitational waves and the generation of baryon asymmetry. An important aspect that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Ángel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico

An extended volume of fluid method is developed for two-phase direct numerical simulations of systems with one viscoelastic and one Newtonian phase. A complete set of governing equations is derived by conditional volume-averaging of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Günter Brenn , Holger Marschall , Dieter Bothe

Within the context of a first-order phase transition in the early Universe, we study the collision process for vacuum bubbles expanding in a plasma. The effects of the plasma are simulated by introducing a damping term in the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Antonio Ferrera , Alejandra Melfo

We analyse the dynamics of the relativistic bubble expansion during the first order phase transition focusing on the ultra relativistic velocities $\gamma\gg 1$. We show that fields much heavier than the scale of the phase transition can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Aleksandr Azatov , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We quantise from first principles field theories living on the background of a bubble wall in the planar limit with particular focus on the case of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. Using these tools, we compute the average momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Aleksandr Azatov , Giulio Barni , Rudin Petrossian-Byrne , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the progress of true-vacuum bubbles is expected to be significantly retarded by the interaction between the bubble wall and the hot plasma. We examine the evolution and collision of slow-moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne-Christine Davis , Matthew Lilley

The gravitational-wave energy-density spectra from cosmological first-order phase transitions crucially depend on the terminal wall velocity of asymptotic bubble expansion when the driving force from the effective potential difference is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-01 Jun-Chen Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yu-Shi Hao , Shao-Jiang Wang

The properties of bubble-laden turbulent flows at different scales are investigated experimentally, focusing on the flow kinetic energy, energy transfer, and extreme events. The experiments employed particle shadow velocimetry measurements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tian Ma , Hendrik Hessenkemper , Dirk Lucas , Andrew D. Bragg

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, gravitational waves are generated by the collisions of bubble walls and by the bulk motions caused in the fluid. A sizeable signal may result from fast-moving walls. In this work we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

Scalar field theory with an asymmetric potential is studied at zero temperature and high-temperature for $\phi^6$ potential. The equations of motion are solved numerically to obtain O(4) spherical symmetric and O(3) cylindrical symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Hatem Widyan