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When a bubble rises to a free surface, its bursting dynamics in Newtonian fluids are governed by the interplay between viscous, capillary, and gravitational forces. In this work, we extend this classical problem to Herschel-Bulkley fluids,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 A. H. Ghaemi , Z. Yang , A. Huang , V. Sanjay , J. Feng , C. R. Constante-Amores

In part I (arXiv:2006.12393) (accepted in JPP), we simulated individual dynamics of a rising bubble and a falling droplet in an incompressible limit of a strongly coupled dusty plasma (SCDP) using a generalized hydrodynamic viscoelastic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Vikram S. Dharodi1

Taylor bubbles are a feature of the slug flow regime in gas-liquid flows in vertical pipes. Their dynamics exhibits a number of transitions such as symmetry-breaking in the bubble shape and wake when rising in downward-flowing and stagnant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-21 Habib Abubakar , Omar Matar

The fate of deformable buoyancy-driven bubbles rising near a vertical wall under highly inertial conditions is investigated numerically. In the absence of path instability, simulations reveal that when the Galilei number, $Ga$, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-25 Pengyu Shi , Jie Zhang , Jacques Magnaudet

We study the rising dynamics of a bubble driven into periodic volumetric oscillations by an external pressure driving within a highly viscous shear-thinning fluid. We perform axisymmetric direct numerical simulations employing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mario Riccio , Marco De Corato

We study both experimentally and theoretically the descending motion due to gravity of a fluid drop surrounded by another immiscible fluid in a confined space between two parallel plates, i.e., in the Hele-Shaw cell. As a result, we show a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-01 Misato Yahashi , Natsuki Kimoto , Ko Okumura

Deformation-induced lateral migration of a bubble slowly rising near a vertical plane wall in a stagnant liquid is numerically and theoretically investigated. In particular, our focus is set on a situation with a short clearance $c$ between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-26 Kazuyasu Sugiyama , Fumio Takemura

The collision of a rising bubble with a superhydrophilic horizontal surface is studied numerically using the Cahn-Hilliard diffuse-interface method. For the studied systems, the Bond number, $Bo=\rho R^2 g/\sigma$, varies between 0.25 to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-22 Sohrab Towfighi , Hadi Mehrabian

The ripening kinetics of bubbles is studied by performing molecular dynamics simulations. From the time evolution of a system, the growth rates of individual bubbles are determined. At low temperatures, the system exhibits a $t^{1/2}$ law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-12 Hiroshi Watanabe , Hajime Inaoka , Nobuyasu Ito

The motion of a long gas bubble in a confined capillary tube is ubiquitous in a wide range of engineering and biological applications. While the understanding of the deposited thin viscous film near the tube wall in Newtonian fluids is well…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 SungGyu Chun , Bingqiang Ji , Zhengyu Yang , Vinit Kumar Malik , Jie Feng

We simulate the quasi-static motion of a spherical particle through a stable, horizontal soap film. The soap film subtends a fixed contact angle, in the range $10-135^\circ$, where it meets the particle. The tension and pressure forces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-11 S. J. Cox , I. T. Davies

A comprehensive, temporal and spatiotemporal linear stability analyses of a (driven) Oldroyd-B fluid with Poiseuille base flow profile in a horizontally aligned, square, Hele-Shaw cell is reported to identify the viable regions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-26 D. Bansal , T. Chauhan , S. Sircar

We develop a systematic method to derive all orders of mode couplings in a weakly nonlinear approach to the dynamics of the interface between two immiscible viscous fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell. The method is completely general. It includes…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Alvarez-Lacalle , J. Casademunt , J. Ortin

The 2D flow of a foam confined in a Hele-Shaw cell through a contraction is investigated. Its rheological features are quantified using image analysis, with measurements of the elastic stress, rate of plasticity, and velocity. The behavior…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Benjamin Dollet

We analyze the properties of naturally formed nano-bubbles in Lennard-Jones molecular dynamics simulations of liquid-to-vapor nucleation in the boiling and the cavitation regimes. The large computational volumes provide a realistic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Raymond Angélil , Jürg Diemand , Kyoko Tanaka , Hidekazu Tanaka

Cross-stream migration of a deformable bubble is investigated computationally in a pressure-driven channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid via interface-resolved simulations. The flow equations are solved fully coupled with the Giesekus model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-07 Hafiz Usman Naseer , Daulet Izbassarov , Zaheer Ahmed , Metin Muradoglu

Dynamics of a bubble impacting and sliding a tilted surface has been investigated through experimental and computational methods. \textcolor{blue}{Specifically, shear stress generated on the wall has been calculated and compared with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-30 Ehsan Esmaili , Pranav Shukla , Joseph D. Eifert , Sunghwan Jung

We demonstrate experimentally the existence of a purely elastic fingering instability which arises when air penetrates into an elastomer confined in a Hele-Shaw cell. Fingers appear sequentially and propagate within the bulk of the material…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-19 Baudouin Saintyves , Olivier Dauchot , Elisabeth Bouchaud

We investigate the phenomenon of air entrainment in turbulent water jets exiting a pool near the free surface. Our experimental results reveal that bubble entrainment occurs only within a specific region close to the point where the jet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-13 Fangye Lin , Mingbo Li

Jetting of collapsing bubbles is a key aspect in cavitation-driven fluid-solid interactions as it shapes the bubble dynamics and additionally due to its direct interaction with the wall. We study experimentally and numerically the near-wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Dominik Mnich , Fabian Reuter , Fabian Denner , Claus-Dieter Ohl