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We investigate the linear stability of a flat interface that separates a liquid layer from a fully-developed turbulent gas flow. In this context, linear-stability analysis involves the study of the dynamics of a small-amplitude wave on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-13 L. Ó Náraigh , P. Spelt , O. Matar , T. Zaki

We study the metastable dynamics of a discretised version of the mass-conserving stochastic Allen-Cahn equation. Consider a periodic one-dimensional lattice with $N$ sites, and attach to each site a real-valued variable, which can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Nils Berglund , Sébastien Dutercq

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

Linear stability of horizontal and inclined stratified channel flows of Newtonian/non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids is investigated with respect to all wavelength perturbations. The Carreau model has been chosen for the modeling of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-06 Davide Picchi , Ilya Barmak , Amos Ullmann , Neima Brauner

A linearly unstable, sinusoidal $E \times B$ shear flow is examined in the gyrokinetic framework in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In the linear regime, it is shown that the eigenmode spectrum is nearly identical to hydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. E. Fraser , M. J. Pueschel , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel

The Saffman-Taylor problem addresses the morphological instability of an interface separating two immiscible, viscous fluids when they move in a narrow gap between two flat parallel plates (Hele-Shaw cell). In this work, we extend the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Parisio , F. Moraes , Jose A. Miranda , Michael Widom

The aim of this work is to study the dynamics and stability of soft shape-morphing configurations and specifically the modes of interaction between the front and rear airfoil segments. Initially we present several steady-state solutions,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-08 Netanel Hassan , Shai B. Elbaz , Amir D. Gat

We consider a coupled model for fluid flow and transport in a domain consisting of two bulk regions separated by a thin porous layer. The thickness of the layer is of order $\varepsilon$ and the microscopic structure of the layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

In this paper, a diffuse-interface lattice Boltzmann method (DI-LBM) is developed for fluid-particle interaction problems. In this method, the sharp interface between the fluid and solid is replaced by a thin but nonzero thickness…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Jiao Liu , Changsheng Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

The dynamics of a rigid particle above a fluid-fluid interface in shear flow is studied here numerically and analytically as a function of the downward force applied on the particle. It is found here that the particle goes below the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-04 Alexander Farutin

This paper is concerned with diffuse-interface approximations of the Willmore flow. We first present numerical results of standard diffuse-interface models for colliding one dimensional interfaces. In such a scenario evolutions towards…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Selim Esedoglu , Andreas Rätz , Matthias Röger

The transport of a passive scalar restricted on interfaces, which is advected by the fluid motions have numerous applications in multiphase transport phenomena. A prototypical example is the advection-diffusion of the concentration field of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath

We study the mixing in the presence of convective flow in a porous medium. Convection is characterized by the formation of vortices and stagnation points, where the fluid interface is stretched and compressed enhancing mixing. We analyze…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Juan J. Hidalgo , Marco Dentz

To study the impact of active systems on their surroundings, we introduce a model that couples an active nematic fluid to an isotropic substrate fluid via friction. We numerically show that as the active layer develops turbulence, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Gianmarco Spera , Julia M. Yeomans , Sumesh P. Thampi

Visual long-range interaction refers to modeling dependencies between distant feature points or blocks within an image, which can significantly enhance the model's robustness. Both CNN and Transformer can establish long-range interactions…

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Recent experimental developments showed that the use of the radiation pressure, induced by a continuous laser wave, to control fluid-fluid interface deformations at the microscale, represents a very promising alternative to electric or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-26 Hamza Chraibi , Didier Lasseux , Régis Wunenburger , Eric Arquis , Jean-Pierre Delville

The paper studies dynamic information flow security policies in an automaton-based model. Two semantic interpretations of such policies are developed, both of which generalize the notion of TA-security [van der Meyden ESORICS 2007] for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Sebastian Eggert , Ron van der Meyden

Reactive, semi-permeable interfaces play important roles in key biological processes such as targeted drug delivery, lipid metabolism, and signal transduction. These systems involve coupled surface reactions, transmembrane transport, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Weidong Shi , Shixin Xu , Zhen Zhang , Quan Zhao

Two-phase flow of two Newtonian incompressible viscous fluids with a soluble surfactant and different densities of the fluids can be modeled within the diffuse interface approach. We consider a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Josef Weber

Active fluids display spontaneous turbulent-like flows known as active turbulence. Recent work revealed that these flows have universal features, independent of the material properties and of the presence of topological defects. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Ido Lavi , Ricard Alert , Jean-François Joanny , Jaume Casademunt