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In this work, we consider a mathematical model for flow in a unsaturated porous medium containing a fracture. In all subdomains (the fracture and the adjacent matrix blocks) the flow is governed by Richards' equation. The submodels are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Florian List , Kundan Kumar , Iuliu Sorin Pop , Florin A. Radu

The paper deals with the determination of integral functional quality for control system of generalized linear dynamic object with exponential activation function by solving the inverse problem of dynamic programming. The obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Roman Voliansky , Alexander Sadovoy

Rayleigh showed that inviscid flow is unstable if the velocity profile has an inflection point in parallel flows. However, whether viscous flows is unstable or not is still not proved so far when there is an inflection point in the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

We derive a new exact evolution equation for the scale dependence of an effective action. The corresponding equation for the effective potential permits a useful truncation. This allows one to deal with the infrared problems of theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-17 Christof Wetterich

We consider an abstract functional-differential equation derived from the pressure-less Euler system with variable coefficients that includes several systems of partial differential equations arising in the fluid mechanics. Using the method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Eduard Feireisl

A fractional diffusion equation with advection term is rigorously derived from a kinetic transport model with a linear turning operator, featuring a fat-tailed equilibrium distribution and a small directional bias due to a given vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We study geometric properties of trace functionals that generalize those in [Zhang, Adv. Math. 365:107053 (2020)], arising from a novel family of conditional entropies with applications in quantum information. Building on new convexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Roberto Rubboli , Milad M. Goodarzi , Marco Tomamichel

We study the flow of the non-local truncation in quantum gravity and we focus in particular on the Polyakov effective action for a non-minimally coupled scalar field on a two dimensional curved space. We show that it is possible to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 E. M. Glaviano , A. Bonanno

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

Biological systems achieve precise control over ambient fluids through the self-organization of active protein structures including flagella, cilia, and cytoskeletal networks. In active structures individual proteins consume chemical energy…

We revisit optimization of functional renormalization group flows by analyzing regularized loop integrals. This leads us to a principle, the Principle of Strongest Singularity, and a corresponding order relation which allows to order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-17 Niklas Zorbach , Jonas Stoll , Jens Braun

The main result of this paper is a convexity estimate for translating solitons of extrinsic geometric flows which evolve under a $1$-homogeneous concave function in the principal curvatures. In addition, we show examples of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Jose Torres Santaella

The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-09 Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

In the finite element analysis with fast decoupled time integration scheme for viscoelastic fluid (the Leonov model) flow, we investigate strong nonlinear behavior in 2D creeping contraction flow. The algorithm is applicable in the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-02 Youngdon Kwon

We study the spectral problem associated with the equation governing the small transverse motions of a viscoelastic tube of finite length conveying an ideal fluid. The boundary conditions considered are of general form, accounting for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Xiao Xuan Feng , Mahyar Mahinzaeim , Gen Qi Xu

One-dimensional numerical simulations using the Euler equations and irreversible one-step Arrhenius kinetics are conducted to study the instability mechanism of a one-dimensional gaseous detonation. By increasing the activation energy, this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yunfeng Liu

We use the functional Renormalisation Group (fRG) to describe the in and out of equilibrium dynamics of stochastic processes, governed by an overdamped Langevin equation. Exploiting the connection between Langevin dynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-05 Ashley Wilkins , Gerasimos Rigopoulos , Enrico Masoero

We use confocal microscopy to directly visualize the spatial fluctuations in fluid flow through a three-dimensional porous medium. We find that the velocity magnitudes and the velocity components both along and transverse to the imposed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-07 Sujit S. Datta , Harry Chiang , T. S. Ramakrishnan , David A. Weitz

The translation and shape deformations of a passive viscous Newtonian droplet immersed in an active nematic liquid crystal under circular confinement are analyzed using a linear stability analysis. We focus on the case of a sharply aligned…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-29 Tanumoy Dhar , Michael J. Shelley , David Saintillan

In this note we analyze a model for a unidirectional unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid with time dependent viscosity. A possible way to take into account such behaviour is to introduce a memory formalism, including thus the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Roberto Garra , Federico Polito