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Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) has critical importance for a broad range of processes in nature and technology, from supernovae to plasma fusion. In most instances RTI is driven by variable acceleration whereas the bulk of existing…

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The superfluid drag-coefficient of a weakly interacting three-component Bose-Einstein condensate is computed deep into the superfluid phase, starting from a Bose-Hubbard model with component-conserving, on-site interactions and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-17 Stian Hartman , Eirik Erlandsen , Asle Sudbø

We report a high-resolution numerical study of two-dimensional (2D) miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) incompressible turbulence with the Boussinesq approximation. An ensemble of 100 independent realizations were performed at small Atwood number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Quan Zhou

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

Interface-resolved direct numerical simulations are performed to investigate bubble-induced transition from laminar to elasto-inertial turbulent (EIT) state in a pressure-driven viscoelastic square channel flow. The Giesekus model is used…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-07 Hafiz Usman Naseer , Daulet Izbassarov , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Metin Muradoglu

The central open question about Rayleigh--B\'enard convection -- buoyancy-driven flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above -- is how vertical heat flux depends on the imposed temperature gradient in the strongly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-10 Baole Wen , David Goluskin , Charles R. Doering

Mathematically, topological invariants arise from the parallel transport of eigenstates on the energy bands, which, in physics, correspond to the adiabatic dynamical evolution of transient states. It determines the presence of boundary…

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Boiling is an extremely effective way to promote heat transfer from a hot surface to a liquid due to several mechanisms many of which are not understood in quantitative detail. An important component of the overall process is that the…

We use the machinery usually employed for studying the onset of Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in hydro- and magnetohydro-dynamic settings to address the onset of convection induced by the magnetothermal instability and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-01 Himanshu Gupta , Shailendra K. Rathor , Martin E. Pessah , Sagar Chakraborty

The combined effects of buoyancy-driven Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RC) and surface tension-driven Marangoni convection (MC) are studied in a triple-layer configuration which serves as a simplified model for a liquid metal battery…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-31 Thomas Köllner , Thomas Boeck , Jörg Schumacher

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability occurs in a variety of scenario as a consequence of fluids of different densities pushing against the density gradient. For example, it is expected to occur in the ion acceleration of solid density targets…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Z. Liu , M. K. Zhao , P. L. Bai , X. J. Yang , R. Qi , Y. Xu , J. W. Wang , Y. X. Leng , J. H. Bin , R. X. Li

The combined effects of imposed vertical mean magnetic field (B0) and rotation on heat transfer phenomenon driven by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability are investigated using DNS. In the hydrodynamic (HD) case (B0 = 0), as the rotation rate f…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 Narinder Singh , Anikesh Pal

We present a numerical study of the main sub-stages preceding aerosol formation via bursting bubbles: capillary wave propagation along the bubble, convergence at the bubble's apex, the ascent of a Worthington jet and its break-up to release…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Paula Pico , Lyes Kahouadji , Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric , Omar K. Matar

This work studies two-dimensional fixed-flux Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with periodic boundary conditions in both horizontal and vertical directions and analyzes its dynamics using numerical continuation, secondary instability analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-12 Chang Liu , Manjul Sharma , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

The Pi Chamber, located at Michigan Technological University, generates moist turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard flow in order to replicate steady-state cloud conditions. We take inspiration from this setup and consider a particle-laden,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-30 Colin J. Denzel , Andrew D. Bragg , David H. Richter

The previous investigation on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a dilute classical gas [T. Kita: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. {\bf 75} (2006) 124005] is extended to calculate entropy change of the convective transition with the rigid boundaries. We…

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A number of applications utilise the energy focussing potential of imploding shells to dynamically compress matter or magnetic fields, including magnetised target fusion schemes. This paper examines the effect of fluid rotation on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-29 Justin Huneault , David Plant , Andrew Higgins

The velocity-vorticity correlation integral (Chkhetiani invariant) is an invariant of a viscous Karman-Howarth equation. In the tree-dimensional space this invariant can naturally determine a turbulent diffusivity (viscosity). It is shown,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 A. Bershadskii

We discuss recent advances in developing a mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) of two-dimensional systems of active Brownian particles (ABP). We specifically discuss the case of a single ABP tracer in a glass-forming passive…

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The Active Brownian Particle (ABP) model has become a prototype of self-propelled particles. ABPs move persistently at a constant speed $V$ along a direction that changes slowly by rotational diffusion, characterized by a coefficient $\Dr$.…

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