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We report and analyze the results of numerical studies of dense granular flows in two and three dimensions, using both linear damped springs and Hertzian force laws between particles. Chute flow generically produces a constant density…

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We examine the effects of horizontally layered heterogeneities on the spreading of two-phase gravity currents in a porous medium, with application to numerous environmental flows, most notably geological carbon sequestration. Geological…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-21 GP Benham , MJ Bickle , JA Neufeld

Bulk viscosity, which characterizes the irreversible dissipative resistance of a fluid to volume changes, has been proposed as a potential mechanism for explaining both early- and late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 P. P. Avelino , A. R. Gomes , D. A. Tamayo

We present a new framework for analyzing the evolution of information in geophysical systems. Understanding how information, and its counterpart, uncertainty, propagates is central to predictability studies and has significant implications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Peter Jan van Leeuwen

We propose a new class of vector fields to construct a conserved charge in a general field theory whose energy momentum tensor is covariantly conserved. We show that there always exists such a vector field in a given field theory even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-03 Sinya Aoki , Tetsuya Onogi , Shuichi Yokoyama

We study evolution equations on metric graphs with reservoirs, that is graphs where a one-dimensional interval is associated to each edge and, in addition, the vertices are able to store and exchange mass with these intervals. Focusing on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Georg Heinze , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , André Schlichting

A cosmological gravitational wave background resulting from space-time quantum perturbations at energy scales of $\sim 10^{15}$GeV is expected as a consequence of the general relativity theory in the context of the standard cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Soares-Santos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Recently, significant progress has been made in conceptually describing the dynamic aspects of coarse particle entrainment, which has been explored experimentally for open channel flows. The aim of this study is to extend the application of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Manousos Valyrakis , Xiao Zhao , Thomas Pähtz , Zhen Li

The Reynolds transport theorem occupies a central place in fluid dynamics, providing a generalized integral conservation equation for the transport of any conserved quantity within a fluid, and connected to its corresponding differential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Robert K. Niven

Granular fronts are a common yet unexplained phenomenon emerging during the gravity driven free-surface flow of concentrated suspensions. They are usually believed to be the result of fluid convection in combination with particle size…

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The equation of the density field of an assembly of macroscopic particles advected by a hydrodynamic flow is derived from the microscopic description of the system. This equation allows to recognize the role and the relative importance of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Cristobal Lopez , Andrea Puglisi

Novel structure for relativistic hydrodynamics of classic plasmas is derived following the microscopic dynamics of charged particles. The derivation is started from the microscopic definition of concentration. Obviously, the concentration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Pavel A. Andreev

One-dimensional blood flow model accuracy has been verified in many studies. This work is about introducing gravity into a one-dimensional model. For this purpose, gravitational force was introduced into the existing model. The boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-27 Oleg Shramko , Andrey Svitenkov , Pavel Zun

Dense suspensions of particles dispersed in liquids are central to industrial and geophysical processes and serve as model systems for out-of-equilibrium soft matter. At high particle concentrations, they exhibit stress-dependent rheology,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Orhun Ayar , Bhargav Sriram Siddani , Ishan Srivastava , Abhinendra Singh

In this paper we explore a possibility that all transport turbulent models are contained in a coarse-grained kinetic equation. Building on a recent work by H.Chen et al (2004), we account for fluctuations of a single -point probability…

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We use direct numerical simulations to investigate fluid-solid interactions in suspensions of rigid fibres settling under gravity in a quiescent fluid. The solid-to-fluid density ratio is $\mathcal{O}(100)$, while the Galileo number ($Ga$)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Alessandro Chiarini , Emanuele Gallorini , Marco Edoardo Rosti

The collision of a gravitationally-driven horizontal current with a barrier following release from a confining lock is investigated using a shallow water model of the motion, together with a sophisticated boundary condition capturing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-19 Edward W. G. Skevington , Andrew J. Hogg

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

The Madelung equations offer a hydrodynamic description of quantum systems, from single particles to quantum fluids. In this formulation, the probability density is mapped onto the fluid density and the phase is treated as a scalar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Christopher Triola

We study, using simulations, the steady-state flow of dry sand driven by gravity in two-dimensions. An investigation of the microscopic grain dynamics reveals that grains remain separated but with a power-law distribution of distances and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Colin Denniston , Hao Li