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We prove full convergence of gradient-flows of the arc-length restricted tangent point energies in the Hilbert-case towards critical points. This is done through a {\L}ojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality for these energies. In order to do…

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A new Lagrangian particle method for solving Euler equations for compressible inviscid fluid or gas flows is proposed. Similar to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), the method represents fluid cells with Lagrangian particles and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Hsin-Chiang Chen , Roman Samulyak , Wei Li

We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruihan Guo , Jie Shen , Shixin Xu , Xianmin Xu

We investigate equilibrium configurations for surface energies which contain the squared $L^2$ norm of the difference of the mean curvature H and the spontaneous curvature $c_o$ coupled with the elastic energy of the boundary curve, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Bennett Palmer , Alvaro Pampano

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

We propose an arbitrarily high-order accurate, fully well-balanced numerical method for the one-dimensional blood flow model. The developed method employs a continuous solution representation, combining conservative and primitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Yongle Liu , Wasilij Barsukow

In the present paper, a continuum model is introduced for fluid flow in a deformable porous medium, where the fluid may undergo phase transitions. Typically, such problems arise in modeling liquid-solid phase transformations in groundwater…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Pavel Krejci , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

A covariant approach towards a theory of deformations is developed to examine both the first and second variation of the Helfrich-Canham Hamiltonian -- quadratic in the extrinsic curvature -- which describes fluid vesicles at mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven

We propose new formulations of geometric curvature flows -- referred to as \emph{dual formulations} -- that are equivalent to the original formulations but provide a novel framework for constructing linearly implicit and energy-stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Guangwei Gao , Buyang Li , Rong Tang

Random organizing hyperuniform fluid induced by reciprocal activation is a non-equilibrium fluid with vanishing density fluctuations at large length scales like crystals. Here we extend this new state of matter to a closed manifold, namely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Yusheng Lei , Ning Zheng , Ran Ni

The Active Flux scheme is a finite volume scheme with additional point values distributed along the cell boundary. It is third order accurate and does not require a Riemann solver. Instead, given a reconstruction, the initial value problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Wasilij Barsukow

The Brownian motion over the space of fluid velocity configurations driven by the hydrodynamical equations is considered. The Green function is computed in the form of an asymptotic series close to the standard diffusion kernel. The high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

We develop a continuum theory to describe the collective dynamics of deformable epithelial cells, using two tensor order parameters to distinguish the force-generating active filaments in the cells from their shape. The theory demonstrates…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-13 Mehrana R. Nejad , Julia M. Yeomans , Sumesh P Thampi

The shear-induced deformation of a capsule with a stiff nucleus, a model of eukaryotic cells, is studied numerically. The membrane of the cell and of its nucleus are modelled as a thin and impermeable elastic material obeying a Neo-Hookean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-29 Arash Alizad Banaei , Jean-Christophe Loiseau , Iman Lashgari , Luca Brandt

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

The fluid dynamics video that is presented here outlines recent advances in the simulation of multiphase cellular blood flow through the direct numerical simulations of deformable red blood cells (RBCs) demonstrated through several…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-20 Jonathan R. Clausen , Daniel A. Reasor , Cyrus K. Aidun

This paper deals with the local recovery of conservative fluxes for an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous coefficients. The transmission conditions on the interface are imposed weakly and the discretisation is achieved by using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi

One of the most popular approaches for solving total variation-regularized optimization problems in the space of measures are Particle Gradient Flows (PGFs). These restrict the problem to linear combinations of Dirac deltas and then perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christian Amend , Marcello Carioni , Konstantinos Zemas

We present a thermodynamically consistent model of a ternary fluid interacting with elastic membranes. Following a free-energy modelling approach and taking into account the thermodynamics laws, we derive the equations governing the ternary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-17 Marianna Pepona , Alvin C. M. Shek , Ciro Semprebon , Timm Krüger , Halim Kusumaatmaja

The signed volume function for polyhedra can be generalized to a mean volume function for volume elements by averaging over the triangulations of the underlying polyhedron. If we consider these up to translation and scaling, the resulting…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel