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The laminar-to-turbulent transition remains a fundamental and enduring challenge in fluid mechanics. Its complexity arises from the intrinsic nonlinearity and extreme sensitivity to external disturbances. This transition is critical in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Wenhui Chang , Hongyuan Hu , Youcheng Xi , Markus Kloker , Honghui Teng , Jie Ren

In this paper, the energy non-conservation problem of the hybrid thermal LB phase change model is emphasized. To solve this problem, an infinite volume discrete scheme is introduced to deal with the diffusion term in the energy equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-27 Anjie Hu , Dong Liu

The development and validation of 3D multiphase computational fluid dynamics (M-CFD) models and physics-informed data-driven modeling require data of high-quality and high-resolution. Considering the difficulties in acquiring the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-01 Mengnan Li , Joachim Moortgat , Igor A. Bolotnov

Fluid turbulence is commonly associated with stronger drag, greater heat transfer, and more efficient mixing than in laminar flows. In many natural and industrial settings, turbulent liquid flows contain suspensions of dispersed bubbles and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-29 Varghese Mathai , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

A dedicated experiment FEDORA (Fusion Experiment for Divertor Optimization Research Applications) has been constructed to visualize flow boiling at scaled fusion divertor conditions. Its main purpose is to obtain the information on local…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Aljoša Gajšek , Gregor Kozmus , Matej Tekavčič , Marianne Richou , Boštjan Končar

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of complex fluid flows in energy systems are prohibitively expensive due to strong nonlinearities and multiscale-multiphysics interactions. In this work, we present a transformer-based modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-06 Kiran Yalamanchi , Shivam Barwey , Ibrahim Jarrah , Pinaki Pal

Recently, radical progress in machine learning (ML) has revolutionized computational materials science, enabling unprecedentedly rapid materials discovery and property prediction, but the quantum many-body problem -- which is the key to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-09 Bowen Hou , Xian Xu , Jinyuan Wu , Diana Y. Qiu

The boiling efficacy is intrinsically tethered to trade-offs between the desire for bubble nucleation and necessity of vapor removal. The solution to these competing demands requires the separation of bubble activity and liquid delivery,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Jonggyu Lee , Youngjoon Suh , Max Kuciej , Peter Simadiris , Michael T. Barako , Yoonjin Won

We introduce a closure model for wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES), referred to as the Building-block Flow Model (BFM). The foundation of the model rests on the premise that a finite collection of simple flows encapsulates the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-18 Gonzalo Arranz , Yuenong Ling , Sam Costa , Konrad Goc , Adrian Lozano-Duran

Transformer has become ubiquitous due to its dominant performance in various NLP and image processing tasks. However, it lacks understanding of how to generate mathematically grounded uncertainty estimates for transformer architectures.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Sinong Wang , Han Fang

We introduce BCAT, a PDE foundation model designed for autoregressive prediction of solutions to two dimensional fluid dynamics problems. Our approach uses a block causal transformer architecture to model next frame predictions, leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yuxuan Liu , Jingmin Sun , Hayden Schaeffer

Knowledge of bubble and drop size distributions in two-phase flows is important for characterizing a wide range of phenomena, including combustor ignition, sonar communication, and cloud formation. The physical mechanisms driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Michael S. Dodd , Perry L. Johnson , Parviz Moin

Turbulence remains one of the last unresolved problems of classical physics and a major bottleneck to accurate flow prediction in climate, aerospace, and energy systems. Industrial simulations therefore rely on averaged representations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zhuoran Liu , Haochen Wang , Zhuolin Zhao , Heng Xiao

This article describes the fluid dynamics video: "Turbulent Bubbly Channel Flow: Role of Bubble Deformability." The effect of bubble deformability on the flow rate of bubbly upflow in a turbulent vertical channel is examined using direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Sadegh Dabiri , Jiacai Lu , Gretar Tryggvason

Crashing ocean waves, cappuccino froths and microfluidic bubble crystals are examples of foamy flows. Foamy flows are critical in numerous natural and industrial processes and remain notoriously difficult to compute as they involve coupled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

Two-phase boiling enables heat transfer rates an order of magnitude higher than single-phase cooling, but it remains difficult to model due to the strong coupling between phase change, turbulence, and transport, as well as extreme…

Bubbly flows, as present in bubble column reactors, can be simulated using a variety of simulation techniques. In order to gain high resolution CFD methods are used to simulate a pseudo 2D bubble column using EL and EE techniques. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-20 Andreas Weber , Hans-Jörg Bart

Predicting time-series is of great importance in various scientific and engineering fields. However, in the context of limited and noisy data, accurately predicting dynamics of all variables in a high-dimensional system is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zijian Wang , Peng Tao , Luonan Chen

A convolutional encoder-decoder-based transformer model is proposed for autoregressively training on spatio-temporal data of turbulent flows. The prediction of future fluid flow fields is based on the previously predicted fluid flow field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-31 Aakash Patil , Jonathan Viquerat , Elie Hachem

We present high resolution numerical simulations of convection in multiphase flows (boiling) using a novel algorithm based on a Lattice Boltzmann method. We first validate the thermodynamical and kinematical properties of the algorithm.…

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