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In this article we study the asymptotic behavior of incompressible, ideal, time-dependent two dimensional flow in the exterior of a single smooth obstacle when the size of the obstacle becomes very small. Our main purpose is to identify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Iftimie , M. C. Lopes Filho , H. J. Nussenzveig Lopes

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

We report evidence of irregular unsteady flow of two-dimensional polymer solutions in the absence of inertia in cross-slot geometry using numerical simulations of Oldroyd-B model. By exploring the transition to time-dependent flow versus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-10 Dário Oliveira Canossi , Gilmar Mompean , Stefano Berti

In this paper we consider the polyharmonic heat flow of a closed curve in the plane. Our main result is that closed initial data with initially small normalised oscillation of curvature and isoperimetric defect flows exponentially fast in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Scott Parkins , Glen Wheeler

We study the area preserving curve shortening flow with Neumann free boundary conditions outside of a convex domain in the Euclidean plane. Under certain conditions on the initial curve the flow does not develop any singularity, and it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

Pressure-driven flow collapses when confined ($u\propto r^{2}$). Asymmetry rectifies surface activity (exchange or slip gradients) into axial flux at $\Delta P=0$ despite zero net exchange. Lorentz reciprocity yields a projection law:…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zheng Li

The $L^2$--gradient flow of the elastic energy of networks leads to a Willmore type evolution law with nontrivial nonlinear boundary conditions. We show local in time existence and uniqueness for this elastic flow of networks in a Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Harald Garcke , Julia Menzel , Alessandra Pluda

Elasto-inertial turbulence is a new state of turbulence found in flows with polymer additives . The dynamics of turbulence generated and controlled by such additives is investigated from the perspective of the coupling between polymer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yves Dubief , Vincent E. Terrapon , Julio Soria

Turbulence is one of the most fascinating phenomena in nature and one of the biggest challenges for modern physics. It is common knowledge that a flow of a simple, Newtonian fluid is likely to be turbulent, when velocity is high, viscosity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-10 Alexander Groisman , Victor Steinberg

We consider regular open curves in R^n with fixed boundary points and moving according to the L^{2}-gradient flow for a generalisation of the Helfrich functional. Natural boundary conditions are imposed along the evolution. More precisely,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Anna Dall'Acqua , Paola Pozzi

Edges are abundant when elastic solids glide in guiding rails or fluids are contained in vessels. We here address induced displacements in elastic solids or small-scale flows in viscous fluids in the vicinity of one such edge. For this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-25 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Andreas M. Menzel

We propose a notion of discrete elastic and area-constrained elastic curves in 2-dimensional space forms. Our definition extends the well-known discrete Euclidean curvature equation to space forms and reflects various geometric properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Tim Hoffmann , Jannik Steinmeier , Gudrun Szewieczek

This paper is devoted to the investigation of gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces (for example, irreversible Finsler manifolds and Minkowski normed spaces) by means of discrete approximation. We study basic properties of curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Shin-ichi Ohta , Wei Zhao

We investigate the motion of a family of closed curves evolving according to the geometric evolution law on a given two dimensional manifold which is embedded or immersed in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. We derive a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We consider the propagation of linear gravity waves on the free surface of steady, axisymmetric flows with purely azimuthal velocity. We propose a two-dimensional set of governing equations for surface waves valid in the deep-water limit.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-17 Emanuele Zuccoli , Edward James Brambley , Dwight Barkley

Elastic turbulence is the chaotic fluid motion resulting from elastic instabilities due to the addition of polymers in small concentrations at very small Reynolds ($\mbox{Re}$) numbers. Our direct numerical simulations show that elastic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Rahul K. Singh , Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Marco E. Rosti

An optimization method used in image-processing (metamorphosis) is found to imply Euler's equations for incompressible flow of an inviscid fluid, without requiring that the Lagrangian particle labels exactly follow the flow lines of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Darryl D. Holm

We consider the problem of minimizing Euler's elastica energy for simple closed curves confined to the unit disk. We approximate a simple closed curve by the zero level set of a function with values +1 on the inside and -1 on the outside of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-21 Patrick W. Dondl , Luca Mugnai , Matthias Röger

The Euler's equations describe the motion of inviscid fluid. In the case of shallow water, when a perturbative asymtotic expansion of the Euler's equations is taken (to a certain order of smallness of the scale parameters), relations to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-09-02 Rossen I. Ivanov

The problem of a viscous flow past a submerged source starting from rest and moving with a constant velocity, below and parallel to a free surface is examined. Asymptotic expressions for long-time evolution of free-surface elevation are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-06 Jian-Jun Shu
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