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Functional integral representations for solutions of the motion equations for wall-bounded incompressible viscous flows, expressed (implicitly) in terms of distributions of solutions to stochastic differential equations of McKean-Vlasov…
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We perform direct numerical simulations of a kerosene-water mixture in pipe flow under realistic experimental conditions by solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. We compute the linear stability of core-annular flow of kerosene…
We present rigorous estimates for some physical quantities related to turbulent and non-turbulent channel flows driven by a uniform pressure gradient. Such results are based on the concept of stationary statistical solution, which is…
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