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We propose a new mathematical model of groundwater flow in porous medium layered over inclined impermeable bed. In its full generality, this is a free-surface problem. To obtain analytically tractable model, we use generalized…

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We investigate the stability and dynamics of natural convection in two dimensions, subject to inhomogeneous boundary conditions. In particular, we consider a Rayleigh-B\`enard (RB) cell, where the horizontal top boundary contains a periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-14 P. Ripesi , L. Biferale , M. Sbragaglia , A. Wirth

In the above paper the authors treat the boundary layer flow along a stationary, vertical, permeable, flat plate within a vertical free stream. Fluid is sucked or injected through the vertical plate. The fluid species concentration at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-30 Asterios Pantokratoras

The present study examines the linear instability characteristics of double-diffusive mixed convective flow in a vertical channel with viscosity stratification. The viscosity of the fluid is modelled as an exponential function of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-28 Ankush , P. A. L. Narayana , K. C. Sahu

We analyze the mechanism that determines the boundary of stability in Taylor-Couette flow. By simple physical argument we derive an analytic expression to approximate the stability line for all radius ratios and all speed ratios, for co-…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Esser , S. Grossmann

For applications regarding transition prediction, wing design and control of boundary layers, the fundamental understanding of disturbance growth in the flat-plate boundary layer is an important issue. In the present work we investigate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-05 A. V. Monwanou , C. H. Miwadinou , J. B. Chabi Orou

This paper is devoted to studying the inflow problem for an ideal polytropic model with non-viscous gas in one-dimensional half space. We showed the existence of the boundary layer in different areas. By employing the energy method, we also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Meichen Hou , Lili Fan

We present an effective thermal open boundary condition for convective heat transfer problems on domains involving outflow/open boundaries. This boundary condition is energy-stable, and it ensures that the contribution of the open boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 X. Liu , Z. Xie , S. Dong

We study numerically and theoretically the gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inner side of a horizontal cylindrical tube and surrounding a shear-free dynamically inert gaseous core. The liquid-gas interface is prone…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-22 Shahab Eghbali , Yves-Marie Ducimetiere , Edouard Boujo , Francois Gallaire

Consider the steady Boltzmann equation with slab symmetry for a monatomic, hard sphere gas in a half space. At the boundary of the half space, it is assumed that the gas is in contact with its condensed phase. The present paper discusses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Niclas Bernhoff , François Golse

We report an experimental study of the properties of the velocity boundary layer in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in a cylindrical cell. The measurements were made at Rayleigh numbers $Ra$ in the range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ping Wei , Ke-Qing Xia

Zhu & Granick [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 096105 (2001)] have recently experimentally established existence of a boundary slip in a Newtonian liquid. They reported typical values of the slip length of the order of few micro-meters. In this light,…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Tsiklauri

It is a classical problem in fluid dynamics about the stability and instability of different hydrodynamic patterns in various physical settings, in particular in the high Reynolds number limit of laminar flow with boundary layer. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang

Applying a sufficiently rapid start-stop to the outer cylinder of the Couette-Taylor system, structures approximately aligned with the axis were recorded in the classic work of Coles (1965). These short-lived rolls are oriented…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Ashley P. Willis , Michael J. Burin

The intrinsic uncertainty of fluid properties, including the equation of state, viscosity, and thermal conductivity, on boundary layer stability has scarcely been addressed. When a fluid is operating in the vicinity of the Widom line…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jie Ren , Yongxiang Wu , Xuerui Mao , Cheng Wang , Markus Kloker

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with an constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Ran Duan , Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

Numerical methods are developed to simulate the wave propagation in heterogeneous 2D fluid / poroelastic media. Wave propagation is described by the usual acoustics equations (in the fluid medium) and by the low-frequency Biot's equations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Guillaume Chiavassa , Bruno Lombard

A convection problem with temperature-dependent viscosity in an infinite layer is presented. As described, this problem has important applications in mantle convection. The existence of a stationary bifurcation is proved together with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco Pla , Henar Herrero , Olivier Lafitte

A series of direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, the flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above, were conducted to investigate the effect of mixed insulating and conducting boundary conditions on…

The boundary conditions prescribing the constant traction or the so-called do-nothing conditions are frequently taken on artificial boundaries in the numerical simulations of steady flow of incompressible fluids, despite the fact that they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-25 M. Lanzendörfer , J. Hron