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We demonstrate that collective motion of interfacial fluctuations can occur at the interface between two coexisting thermodynamic phases. Based on computer simulation results for driven diffusive Ising and Blume-Capel models, we conjecture…

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Chiral active fluids break both time-reversal and parity symmetry, leading to exotic transport phenomena unobservable in ordinary passive fluids. We develop a generalized Green-Kubo relation for the anomalous lift experienced by a passive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Anthony R. Poggioli , David T. Limmer

This second part of the study develops a geometric and asymptotic description of how surface tension governs the modulational stability of interfacial waves in a two-layer fluid. Extending the analytical framework of Part~I, surface tension…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

Longitudinal wave propagation is considered in a pair of waveguides connected by bilinear spring systems. The nature of the nonlinearity causes the compressive and tensile force-displacement relations of the bilinear spring to behave in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaocheng Lu , Andrew N. Norris

We prove the existence of pure capillary solitary waves for the 2D finite-depth Euler equations with nonzero constant vorticity. In the irrotational case, nonexistence of solitary waves was established by Ifrim--Pineau--Tataru--Taylor, so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Zhengjun Liang , Giang To , Ye Zhang

Recent experiments have revealed that the meniscus formed near a surface-piercing barrier can significantly alter the propagation and scattering of capillary-gravity surface waves, beyond what classic flat-surface models predict. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-17 Guoqin Liu , Zhengwu Wang , Likun Zhang

Breaking the reciprocity of wave propagation is a problem of fundamental interest, and a mucht-sought functionality in practical applications, both in photonics and phononics. Although it has been achieved using resonant linear scattering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tiemo Pedergnana , Abel Faure-Beaulieu , Romain Fleury , Nicolas Noiray

We consider a one-dimensional problem modeling two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media made of two homogeneous subdomains, with discontinuous capillarity at the interface between them. We suppose that the capillary forces vanish inside…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-06 Clément Cancès

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality arises solely from a collision-induced transverse impulse.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Raphael Maire , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

Most prior works studying tidal interactions in tight star/planet or star/star binary systems have employed linear theory of a viscous fluid in a uniformly-rotating two-dimensional spherical shell. However, compact systems may have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

The Rayleigh capillary instability of a cylindrical interface between two immiscible fluids is one of the most fundamental in fluid dynamics. As Plateau observed from energetic considerations and Rayleigh clarified through hydrodynamics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Powers , Dengfu Zhang , Raymond E. Goldstein , Howard A. Stone

The motion of both internal and surface waves in incompressible fluids under capillary and gravity forces is a major research topic. In particular, we review the derivation of some new models describing the dynamics of gravity-capillary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Rafael Granero-Belinchón

The spherical capillary water waves equation describes the motion of an almost spherical water droplet under zero gravity governed by water-air interface tension. Using para-differential calculus on compact Lie groups and homogeneous spaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Chengyang Shao

Direct numerical simulation of threedimensional chaotic motion of a dielectric liquid with a free surface under the action of external horizontal electric field is carried out. The numerical model takes into account the effects of surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Igor A. Dmitriev , Evgeny A. Kochurin , Nikolay M. Zubarev

Our understanding of both structure and dynamics of adsorbed liquids heavily relies on the capillary wave Hamiltonian, but a thorough test of this model is still lacking. Here we study the capillary wave fluctuations of a liquid film with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Luis G. MacDowell , Jorge Benet , Nebil A. Katcho

We examine the applicability of the weak wave turbulence theory in explaining experimental scaling results obtained for the diffusion and relative diffusion of particles moving on turbulent surface waves. For capillary waves our theoretical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-23 Victor M. Eguiluz , Mogens T. Levinsen , Preben Alstrom

Capillary ripples on thin viscous films are important features of coating and lubrication flows. Here we present experiments based on Digital Holographic Microscopy, measuring the morphology of capillary ripples ahead of a viscous drop…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-07 Maziyar Jalaal , Carola Seyfert , Jacco Snoeijer

We discuss the problem of trapping and mobilization of nonwetting fluids during immiscible two phase displacement processes in porous media. Capillary desaturation curves give residual saturations as a function of capillary number.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lucian , R. Hilfer

A linearized theory of the acoustics of porous elastic formations, such as rocks, saturated with two different viscous fluids is generalized to take into account a pressure discontinuity across the fluid boundaries. The latter can arise due…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , David Linton Johnson

We present a numerical study of spatially quasi-periodic traveling waves on the surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. This is a generalization of the classic Wilton ripple problem to the case when the ratio of wave numbers satisfying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao