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We experimentally investigate the flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a parallel shear geometry at low Reynolds number. As the flow becomes unstable via a nonlinear subcritical instability, velocimetry measurements show non-periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-26 Boyang Qin , Paulo E. Arratia

Visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, driven by a two-dimensional unstable shear layer that is maintained by an imposed body force, is examined by decomposing it into dissipationless linear eigenmodes of the initial profiles. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel

Results are presented for the phase separation process of a binary mixture subject to an uniform shear flow quenched from a disordered to a homogeneous ordered phase. The kinetics of the process is described in the context of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura

The shear viscosity in the dilute regime of a model for confined granular matter is studied by simulations and kinetic theory. The model consists on projecting into two dimensions the motion of vibrofluidized granular matter in shallow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rodrigo Soto , Dino Risso , Ricardo Brito

Here we study the long time behavior of an advection-diffusion equation with a general time varying (including random) shear flow imposing no-flux boundary conditions on channel walls. We derive the asymptotic approximation of the scalar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Lingyun. Ding , Richard M. McLaughlin

A method is proposed to estimate the velocity field of an unsteady flow using a limited number of flow measurements. The method is based on a non-linear low-dimensional model of the flow and on expanding the velocity field in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Marcelo Buffoni , Simone Camarri , Angelo Iollo , Edoardo Lombardi , Maria-Vittoria Salvetti

We have extended our study of the competition between the drive and stabilization of plasma microinstabilities by sheared flow to include electromagnetic effects at low plasma $\beta$ (the ratio of plasma to magnetic pressure). The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. D. J. Cole , S. L. Newton , S. C. Cowley , N. F. Loureiro , D. Dickinson , C. Roach , J. W. Connor

We theoretically and numerically investigate the steady flow of two-dimensional granular materials in a rotating drum using the discrete element method and a continuum model with the $\mu(I)$-rheology. The velocity fields obtained from both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Hiroki Oba , Michio Otsuki

We investigate the dynamics of microcapsules in linear shear flow within a reduced model with two degrees of freedom. In previous work for steady shear flow, the dynamic phases of this model, i.e. swinging, tumbling and intermittent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-15 Steffen Kessler , Reimar Finken , Udo Seifert

In this Letter, the 2-dimensional dense flow of polygonal particles on an incline with a flat frictional inferior boundary is analyzed by means of contact dynamics discrete element simulations, in order to develop boundary conditions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-10 Riccardo Artoni , Andrea C. Santomaso , Massimiliano Go' , Paolo Canu

We use existing 3D Discrete Element simulations of simple shear flows of spheres to evaluate the radial distribution function at contact that enables kinetic theory to correctly predict the pressure and the shear stress, for different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-03 Dalila Vescovi , Diego Berzi , Patrick Richard , Nicolas Brodu

A microfluidic approach to probing the first normal stress difference from single-point pressure measurements in transient shear flows is presented. Using an original experimental design, we examine the near-zero-mean pulsatile flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 T. Rodrigues , F. J. Galindo-Rosales , L. Campo-Deaño

We analyze particle velocity fluctuations in a simulated granular system subjected to homogeneous quasistatic shearing. We show that these fluctuations share the following scaling characteristics of fluid turbulence in spite of their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Radjai , S. Roux

We propose a novel multiple-scale spatial marching method for flows with slow streamwise variation. The key idea is to couple the boundary region equations, which govern large-scale flow evolution, with local exact coherent structures that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Runjie Song , Kengo Deguchi

We present a method for conditional sampling for pre-trained normalizing flows when only part of an observation is available. We derive a lower bound to the conditioning variable log-probability using Schur complement properties in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-18 Vincent Moens , Aivar Sootla , Haitham Bou Ammar , Jun Wang

Scaling relationships have been proposed to describe shear-driven size segregation based on intruder experiments and simulations. While these models have shown agreement with experimental and numerical results under uniform shear rate,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-03 Tianxiong Zhao , Daisuke Noto , Xia Li , Tomás Trewhela , Hugo N. Ulloa

Results are presented for the phase separation process of a binary mixture subject to an uniform shear flow quenched from a disordered to a homogeneous ordered phase. The kinetics of the process is described in the context of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Lamura

In the present paper, we examine the viscous flow evolution in a square cavity. Coupled with the stream function, the initial-boundary value problem of the vorticity is numerically solved by a method of iteration. The only boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-12 F. Lam

We study enhancement of diffusive mixing on a compact Riemannian manifold by a fast incompressible flow. Our main result is a sharp description of the class of flows that make the deviation of the solution from its average arbitrarily small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Constantin , A. Kiselev , L. Ryzhik , A. Zlatos

We consider advection of small inertial particles by a random fluid flow with a strong steady shear component. It is known that inertial particles suspended in a random flow can exhibit clusterization even if the flow is incompressible. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-30 Grigory A. Sizov