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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

A nonlinear diffusion equation, interpreted as a Wasserstein gradient flow, is numerically solved in one space dimension using a higher-order minimizing movement scheme based on the BDF (backward differentiation formula) discretization. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Bertram Düring , Philipp Fuchs , Ansgar Jüngel

This article is concerned with the dynamics of a mixture of gases. Under the assumption that all the gases are isothermal and inviscid, we show that the governing equations have an elegant conservation-dissipation structure. With the help…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Zaibao Yang , Wen-An Yong , Yi Zhu

Many physical systems of interest involve the close interaction of a flow in a domain with complex, time-varying boundaries. Treatment of boundaries of this nature is cumbersome due to the difficulty in explicitly tracking boundaries that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Emma M. Boyd , Eric Sandall , Maycon Meier , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

High-dimensional data are often assumed to lie on lower-dimensional manifolds. We study how to construct diffusion processes on this data manifold using only point cloud samples and without access to charts, projections, or other geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Victor Kawasaki-Borruat , Clara Grotehans , Pierre Vandergheynst , Adam Gosztolai

Realistic simulation of dynamic scenes requires accurately capturing diverse material properties and modeling complex object interactions grounded in physical principles. However, existing methods are constrained to basic material types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhuoman Liu , Weicai Ye , Yan Luximon , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

There are several approaches to describe flows with particles e.g. Lattice-Gas Automata (LGA), Lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) or smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). These approaches do not use fixed grids on which the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-27 B. Ivancic

This paper investigates a variational approach to viscous flows with contact line dynamics based on energy-dissipation modeling. The corresponding model is reduced to a thin-film equation and its variational structure is also constructed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-21 Dirk Peschka

Using a fixed Eulerian mesh, the phase-field method has been successfully utilized for a broad range of moving boundary problems involving multiphase fluids and single-phase fluid-structure interaction. Nevertheless, multiphase fluids…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-19 Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev Jaiman

We present simulations of coherent structures in compressible flows near the transition to turbulence using the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) method. The structures we find are remarkably consistent with experimental observations and…

We present a latent diffusion-based differentiable inversion method (LD-DIM) for PDE-constrained inverse problems involving high-dimensional spatially distributed coefficients. LD-DIM couples a pretrained latent diffusion prior with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zihan Lin , QiZhi He

Accurate representation of interfaces and flux exchange is vital for coupled multiphysics simulations across a broad range of applications. Currently, coupling approaches are limited by the underlying discretization or to specific physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ethan Huff , Savio J. Poovathingal

Particle size is a key variable in understanding the behaviour of the particulate products that underpin much of our modern lives. Typically obtained from suspensions at rest, measuring the particle size under flowing conditions would…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-22 James A Richards , Vincent A Martinez , Jochen Arlt

This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

The present article proposes a diffuse interface model for compressible multicomponent flows with transport phenomena of mass, momentum and energy (i.e., mass diffusion, viscous dissipation and heat conduction). The model is reduced from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Chao Zhang , Lifeng Wang

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi

Uncovering the underlying ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that govern dynamic systems is crucial for advancing our understanding of complex phenomena. Traditional symbolic regression methods often struggle to capture the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Chang , Kuang-Da Wang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Cheng-Kuan Lin , Wen-Chih Peng

This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In this paper, we propose a novel unstructured mesh control volume method to deal with the space fractional derivative on arbitrarily shaped convex domains, which to the best of our knowledge is a new contribution to the literature.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Libo Feng , Fawang Liu , Ian Turner

The increasing complexity and scale of photonic and electromagnetic devices demand efficient and accurate numerical solvers. In this work, we develop a parallel overlapping domain decomposition method (DDM) based on the finite-difference…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhanwen Wang , Chengnian Huang , Wangtao Lu , Yuntian Chen , Wei E. I. Sha