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We investigate continuous generation of bubbles from a bath of air in viscous liquid in a confined geometry. In our original setup, bubbles are spontaneously generated by virtue of buoyancy and a gate placed in the cell: the gate acts like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Haruka Hitomi , Ko Okumura

Data from Direct Numerical Simulations of disperse bubbly flows in a vertical channel are used to study the effect of the bubbles on the carrier-phase turbulence. A new method is developed, based on the barycentric map approach, that allows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Tian Ma , Bernhard Ott , Jochen Frohlich , Andrew D. Bragg

Successful models of the low redshift circumgalactic medium (CGM) must account for (1) a large amount of gas, (2) relatively slow gas velocities, (3) a high degree of metal enrichment, (4) the similar absorption properties around both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Cassandra Lochhaas , Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , David H. Weinberg

Small bubbles in fluids raise to the surface due to Archimede's force. Remarkably, in turbulent flows this process is severely hindered by the presence of vortex filaments, which act as moving potential wells, dynamically trapping light…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-17 Ziqi Wang , Xander M de Wit , Federico Toschi

We study reaction-diffusion particle systems with several interaction mechanisms. As the number of particles tends to infinity, the system admits a mean-field limit describing the bulk behaviour. We focus on determining the propagation…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

We study a class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems with random boundaries as a microscopic model for Stefan's melting and freezing problem. We prove that under diffusive rescaling these particle systems exhibit a hydrodynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Landim , Glauco Valle

Suspensions of spherical active particles often show microphase separation. At a continuum level, coupling their scalar density to fluid flow, there are two distinct explanations. Each involves an effective interfacial tension: the first…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-09 Rajesh Singh , M. E. Cates

Of stochastic differential equations, diffusion processes have been adopted in numerous applications, as more relevant and flexible models. This paper studies diffusion processes in a different setting, where for a given stationary…

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This study aims to investigate the behavior of multicomponent fluid flows consisting of Newtonian and non-Newtonian components, especially terminal velocity of a rising bubble in a power-law fluid. A recent lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is…

Membrane pores are implicated in several critical functions, including cell fusion and the transport of signaling molecules for intercellular communication. However, these structural features are often difficult to probe directly. Droplet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-13 Nivedina A. Sarma , David A. King , Xuefei Wu , Brett A. Helms , Paul D. Ashby , Thomas P. Russell , Ahmad K. Omar

The spherical dynamics of a bubble in a compressible liquid has been studied extensively since the early work of Gilmore. Numerical codes to study the behavior, including when large non-spherical deformations are involved, have since been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Arvind Jayaprakash , Sowmitra Singh , Georges Chahine

Constraints can affect dramatically the behavior of diffusion processes. Recently, we analyzed a natural and a technological system and reported that they perform diffusion-like discrete steps displaying a peculiar constraint, whereby the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-23 Salvatore Mandrà , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Marco Gherardi

In the context of many applications of turbulent multi-phase flows, knowledge of the dispersed phase size distribution and its evolution is critical to predicting important macroscopic features. We use a population dynamics model for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-19 Aditya Aiyer , Di Yang , Marcelo Chamecki , Charles Meneveau

The structure of polydisperse hard sphere fluids, in the presence of a wall, is studied by the Rosenfeld density functional theory. Within this approach, the local excess free energy depends on only four combinations of the full set of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Pagonabarraga , M. E. Cates , G. J. Ackland

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

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The paper examines stochastic diffusion within an expanding space-time framework. It starts with providing a rationale for the considered model and its motivation from cosmology where the expansion of space-time is used in modelling various…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Philip Broadbridge , Illia Donhauzer , Andriy Olenko

The study of vapor bubble growth following droplet vaporization in a superheated liquid involves research areas such as hydrodynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and thermodynamics. The interplay between these multiscale aspects is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-29 Muhammad Saeed Saleem , Michel Versluis , Guillaume Lajoinie

The standard theoretical treatment of collisional cascades derives a steady-state size distribution assuming a single constant velocity dispersion for all bodies regardless of size. Here we relax this assumption and solve self-consistently…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Margaret Pan , Hilke E. Schlichting

The fluid physics of the heat and mass transfer from an object in its wake has much importance for natural phenomena as well as for many engineering applications. Here, we report numerical results on the population density of the spatial…

The secondary Bjerknes force plays a significant role in the evolution of bubble clusters. However, due to the complex dependence of the force on multiple parameters, it is highly non-trivial to include the effects of this force in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Haiyan Chen , Yue Zeng , Yi Li