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The separating and reattaching turbulent flow past a rectangular cylinder is studied to describe how small and large scales contribute to the sustaining mechanism of the velocity fluctuations. The work is based on the Anisotropic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-24 Alessandro Chiarini , Davide Gatti , Andrea Cimarelli , Maurizio Quadrio

We develop a geometric foundation of microcanonical thermodynamics in which entropy and its derivatives are determined from the geometry of phase space, rather than being introduced through an a priori ensemble postulate. Once the minimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Loris Di Cairano

Linear topological spaces with partial ordering (linear kinematics) are studied. They are defined by a set of 8 axioms implying that topology, linear structure and ordering are compatible with each other. Most of the results are valid for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Revoltovich Krym

Polymers with active segments constitute prospective future materials and are used as a model for some biological systems such as chromatin. The directions of the active forces are typically introduced with temporal or spatial correlations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-25 Adam H. T. P. Höfler , Iurii Chubak , Christos N. Likos , Jan Smrek

This paper investigates spaces equipped with a family of metric-like functions satisfying certain axioms. These functions provide a unified framework for defining topology, uniformity, and diffeology. The framework is based on a family of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Masaki Taho

We compute cosmological perturbations for a generic self-gravitating media described by four derivatively- coupled scalar fields. Depending on the internal symmetries of the action for the scalar fields, one can describe perfect fluids,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Marco Celoria , Denis Comelli , Luigi Pilo

Through an Hamiltonian action we write down the system of equations of motions for a mixture of thermocapillary fluids under the assumption that the internal energy is a function not only of the gradient of the densities but also of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-15 Henri Gouin , Tommaso Ruggeri

We present a brief derivation of the kinetic equation describing the secular evolution of point vortices in two-dimensional hydrodynamics, by relying on a functional integral formalism. We start from Liouville's equation which describes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-28 Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

We develop a geometric formulation of fluid dynamics, valid on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds, that regards the momentum-flux and stress tensors as 1-form valued 2-forms, and their divergence as a covariant exterior derivative. We review…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-14 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

Each finite-dimensional algebra can be identified to the cubic matrix given by structural constants defining the multiplication between the basis elements of the algebra. In this paper we introduce the notion of flow (depending on time) of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-26 M. Ladra , U. A. Rozikov

We show that a general class of active scalar equations, including porous media and certain magnetostrophic turbulence models, admit non-unique weak solutions in the class of bounded functions. The proof is based upon the method of convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Roman Shvydkoy

Spiral waves are ubiquitous signatures of non equilibrium dynamics, appearing across chemical, biological, and active systems. Yet, in many living systems these waves unfold on curved and folded surfaces whose geometry has rarely been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-19 Varun Venkatesh , Farzan Vafa , Martin Cramer Pedersen , Amin Doostmohammadi

Functional dynamics, introduced in a previous paper, is analyzed, focusing on the formation of a hierarchical rule to determine the dynamics of the functional value. To study the periodic (or non-fixed) solution, the functional dynamics is…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kataoka , K. Kaneko

We derive a self-similar description for the 2D streamline topology and flow structure of an axi-symmetric, thermally driven wind originating from a disc in which the density is a power law function of radius. Our scale-free solution is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 C. J. Clarke , R. D. Alexander

Efficient locomotion is important for the evolution of complex life, yet the physical principles selecting specific swimming strokes often remain entangled with biological constraints. In viscous fluids, the scallop theorem constrains the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Takahiro Kanazawa , Kenta Ishimoto , Kyogo Kawaguchi

We study light propagation in a medium with uniform torsion, modeled as a continuum of screw dislocations within the geometric theory of defects. By solving Maxwell's equations in covariant form, we show that torsion induces intrinsic…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-19 Humberto Belich , Edilberto O. Silva

We consider quark-gluon plasma with chemical potential and study renormalization group flows of transport coefficients in the framework of gauge/gravity duality. We first study them using the flow equations and compare the results with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-01 Yoshinori Matsuo , Sang-Jin Sin , Yang Zhou

Unlike Newtonian fluids, viscoelastic fluids may break time-reversal symmetry at low Reynolds numbers resulting in elastic turbulence. Furthermore, under some conditions, instead of the chaotic turbulence, large-scale regular waves form, as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-19 Jason P. Beech , Oskar E. Ström , Jonas O. Tegenfeldt

Quadratic flows have the unique property of uniform strain and are commonly used in turbulence modeling and hydrodynamic analysis. While previous application focused on two-dimensional homogeneous fluid, this study examines the geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-30 Che Sun

We formulate the equations of fluid dynamics as an intersection-theoretic problem on an infinite-dimensional symplectic manifold naturally associated with spacetime. This perspective separates the structures determined by the equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Nikita Nekrasov , Paul Wiegmann