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A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

Direct numerical simulations of fully-developed turbulent channel flows with wavy walls are undertaken. The wavy walls, skewed with respect to the mean flow direction, are introduced as a means of emulating a Spatial Stokes Layer (SSL)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-05 Sacha Ghebali , Sergei I. Chernyshenko , Michael A. Leschziner

This paper investigates the asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for a one-dimensional compressible fluid system, where the Newton's law of viscosity and Fourier's law of heat conduction are replaced by Maxwell's law and Cattaneo's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yuxi Hu , Mengran Yuan , Jie Zhang

By definition, Manufactured turbulence(MT) is purported to mimic physical turbulence rather than model it. The MT equations are constrained to be simple to solve and provide an inexpensive surrogate to Navier-Stokes based Direct Numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-14 Aashwin Mishra , Sharath Girimaji

Incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on a thin spherical domain $Q_\varepsilon$ along with free boundary conditions under a random forcing are considered. The convergence of the martingale solution of these equations to the martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zdzisław Brzeźniak , Gaurav Dhariwal , Quoc Thong Le Gia

Possible dark states could be induced after derivations of the entrainment of matter induced by a surface wave propagating along the flexible vacuum-matter boundary by considering the nonlinear coupling between the interface and the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 Zotin K. -H. Chu

In this work, a novel synthetic iteration scheme (SIS) is developed for the LBE to find solutions to Kramer's problem accurately and efficiently: the velocity distribution function is first solved by the conventional iterative scheme, then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Haihu Liu , Lei Wu

Typical multispecies compressible Navier-Stokes computations employ conservative equations for mass fraction transport. Upwind discretisations of these governing equations produce spurious pressure oscillations at diffuse contact surfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Ben Thornber , Michael Groom , David Youngs

The Navier Stokes equations (NSEs) are partial differential equations (PDEs) to describe the nonlinear convective motion of fluids and they are computationally expensive to simulate because of their high nonlinearity and variables being…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Mai Peng , Alan Kaptanoglu , Chris Hansen , Jacob Stevens-Haas , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton

Turbulence cascade has been modeled using various methods; the one we have used applies to a more exact representation of turbulence where people use the multifractal representation. The nature of the energy dissipation is usually governed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-31 Vicente Corral Arreola , Arturo Rodriguez , Vinod Kumar

Shell models allow much greater scale separations than those presently achievable with direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. Consequently, they are an invaluable tool for testing new concepts and ideas in the theory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-11 John D. Gibbon , Dario Vincenzi

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 strong formulation of the generalised Navier-Stokes momentum equation is investigated. Specifically, the formulation of shear-stress divergence is investigated, due to its effect on the performance and accuracy of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-11 Josip Basic , Martina Basic , Branko Blagojevic

A finite-volume method for the steady, compressible, reacting, turbulent Navier-Stokes equations is developed by using a steady-state preserving splitting scheme for the stiff source terms in chemical reaction. Laminar and turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yalu Zhu , Feng Liu , William A. Sirignano

The Navier--Stokes (NS) equations describe fluid dynamics through a high-dimensional, nonlinear system of partial differential equations (PDEs). Despite their fundamental importance, their behavior in turbulent regimes remains incompletely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Alexander Migdal

A kinetic model is proposed for rarefied flows of molecular gas with rotational and temperature-dependent vibrational degrees of freedom. The model reduces to the Boltzmann equation for monatomic gas when the energy exchange between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Qi Li , Lei Wu

Experiments (Mullin and Kreswell, 2005) show that transition to turbulence can start at Reynolds numbers lower than it is predicted by the linear stability analysis - the subcritical transition to turbulence. To explain these observations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-08 K. Y. Volokh

We investigate statistical properties of vorticity fluctuations in fully developed turbulence, which are known to exhibit a strong intermittent behavior. Taking as the starting point the Navier-Stokes equations with a random force term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi

Geophysical and astrophysical fluid flows are typically driven by buoyancy and strongly constrained at large scales by planetary rotation. Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RRRBC) provides a paradigm for experiments and direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 Adrian van Kan , Keith Julien , Benjamin Miquel , Edgar Knobloch

Experimental mean flows are commonly used to study wall-bounded turbulence. However, these measurements are often unable to resolve the near-wall region and thus introduce ambiguity in the velocity closest to the wall. This poses a source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Salvador Rey Gomez , Tomek Jaroslawski