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Mass dispersion in oscillatory flows is intimately linked to various environmental and biological processes, offering a distinct contrast to dispersion in steady flows due to the periodic expansion and contraction of particle patches. In…

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Diffusivity is a key quantity in describing velocity fluctuations in granular materials. These fluctuations are the basis of many thermodynamic and hydrodynamic models which aim to provide a statistical description of granular systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Brian Utter , R. P. Behringer

We study the rheology of a two-fluid emulsion in semi-concentrated conditions; the solute is Newtonian while the solvent an inelastic power law fluid. The problem at hand is tackled by means of direct numerical simulations using the volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Marco Edoardo Rosti , Shu Takagi

This paper investigates enhanced dissipation for a passive scalar advected by "very rough" horizontal shear flows, described by an advection-diffusion equation on the 2D torus. The authors extend results of Galeati and Gubinelli (2023) to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Marco Romito , Leonardo Roveri

Taylor diffusion (or dispersion) refers to a phenomenon discovered experimentally by Taylor in the 1950s where a solute dropped into a pipe with a background shear flow experiences diffusion at a rate proportional to $1/\nu$, which is much…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Margaret Beck , Osman Chaudhary , C. Eugene Wayne

Using a dynamical density functional theory we analyze the density profile of a colloidal liquid near a wall under shear flow. Due to the symmetries of the system considered, the naive application of dynamical density functional theory does…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Brader , M. Krüger

Supercooled liquids exhibit complicated dynamical behaviors: At the microscopic level, the dynamics is heterogeneous spatially, known as dynamic heterogeneity. At the macroscopic level, the shear viscosity $\eta$ decreases as shear rate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-01 Ke-Qi Zeng , Dong-Xu Yu , Zhe Wang

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior of a compressible Lennard-Jones fluid in simple shear flow in a two-dimensional nanochannel. The system is equilibrated in the fluid phase close to the triple point at which gas,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-31 Madhu Priya , Yitzhak Rabin

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture in a simple shear flow is investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations. The range of temperature investigated covers both the liquid, supercooled and glassy states,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ludovic Berthier , Jean-Louis Barrat

We extend the conventional mode-coupling theory of supercooled liquids to systems under stationary shear flow. Starting from generalized fluctuating hydrodynamics, a nonlinear equation for the intermediate scattering function is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kunimasa Miyazaki , David R. Reichman

The study of forced oscillations in open cylindrical channel under precession is extended to include the shear effect, that is induced by inertial waves in such systems. The linear part of the problem led to two equations for stability one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-17 Hajar Alshoufi

We investigate shear-induced crystallization in a very dense flow of mono-disperse inelastic hard spheres. We consider a steady plane Couette flow under constant pressure and neglect gravity. We assume that the granular density is greater…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson

The gradual fall of the shear viscosity below 2.8K, observed in a liquid helium 4 flowing through a capillary, is examined. The disappearance of the shear viscosity in a capillary flow is a manifestation of superfluidity in dissipative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-07-16 Shun-ichiro Koh

We present a numerical simulation study of a simple monatomic Lennard-Jones liquid under shear flow, as a function of both temperature and shear rate. By investigating different observables we find that i) It exists a line in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Angelani , G. Ruocco , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , F. Zamponi

We consider a simple model of the evolution of the concentration of a tracer, subject to a background shear flow by a fluid with viscosity $\nu \ll 1$ in an infinite channel. Taylor observed in the 1950's that, in such a setting, the tracer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-26 Margaret Beck , Osman Chaudhary , C. Eugene Wayne

The description of molecular motion by macroscopic hydrodynamics has a long and continuing history. The Stokes-Einstein relation between the diffusion coefficient of a solute and the solvent viscosity predicted using macroscopic continuum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaoyu Xia , Peter G. Wolynes

This work presents a hierarchical model for solute transport in bounded layered porous media with random permeability. The model generalizes the Taylor-Aris dispersion theory to stochastic transport in random layered porous media with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-27 Zhijie Xu , Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

We develop a framework for studying the enhanced dissipation of passive scalars advected by shear flows based on analyzing the particle trajectories of the stochastic differential equation associated with the governing drift-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Victor Gardner , Kyle L. Liss , Jonathan C. Mattingly

Using Stokesian dynamics simulations, we examine the flow of a monodisperse, neutrally buoyant, homogeneous suspension of non-Brownian solid spheres in simple shear, starting from a large number of independent hard-sphere distributions and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 M. Marchioro , A. Acrivos

Transport properties of dense fluids are fundamentally challenging, because the powerful approaches of equilibrium statistical physics cannot be applied. Polar fluids compound this problem, because the long-range interactions preclude the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-16 Faezeh Pousaneh , Astrid S. de Wijn