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Using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations we study the propagation of planar fronts in superconductors, which would appear after a quench to zero applied magnetic field. Our numerical solutions show that the fronts propagate at a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. John Di Bartolo , Alan T. Dorsey

We perform extensive molecular dynamics simulations of 2D frictionless granular materials to determine whether these systems can be characterized by a single static yield shear stress. We consider boundary-driven planar shear at constant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ning Xu , Corey S. O'Hern

A rigorous theory for the generation of a large-scale magnetic field by random non-helically forced motions of a conducting fluid combined with a linear shear is presented in the analytically tractable limit of low Rm and weak shear. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 T. Heinemann , J. C. McWilliams , A. A. Schekochihin

We present simulations of granular flows in a modified Couette cell, using a continuum model recently proposed for dense granular flows. Based on a friction coefficient, which depends on an inertial number, the model captures the positions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Jop

We present a simple model for the development of shear layers between parallel flows in confining channels. Such flows are important across a wide range of topics from diffusers, nozzles and ducts to urban air flow and geophysical fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-09 GP Benham , AA Castrejon-Pita , IJ Hewitt , CP Please , RW Style , P Bird

Employing a suitable scaling rule in gas-liquid flow can produce dynamically comparable results, which helps in the development of flow models applicable to a wide range of flow conditions and reduces the carbon footprint; however, matching…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Meng-Ke Zhan , Cheng-Gang Xie , Jian-Jun Shu

We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in turbulent plane Couette flow. Using the compound matrix technique in order to reformulate this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rolf Nicodemus , Siegfried Grossmann , Martin Holthaus

We consider two-dimensional homogeneous shear turbulence within the context of optimal control, a multi-scale turbulence model containing the fluctuation velocity and pressure correlations up to the fourth order; The model is formulated on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-08 L. Tao , M. Ramakrishna

A 2-D version of the asymmetric exclusion model for granular sheared flows is presented. The velocity profile exhibits two qualitatively different behaviors, dependent on control parameters. For low friction, the velocity profile follows an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Josserand

We study the asymptotics of front speeds of the reaction-diffusion equations with Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) nonlinearity and zero mean stationary ergodic Gaussian shear advection on the entire plane. By exploiting connections of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Xin

We consider the ordering kinetics of a nonconserved scalar field advected by a uniform shear flow. Using the Ohta-Jasnow-Kawasaki approximation, modified to allow for shear-induced anisotropy, we calculate the asymptotic time dependence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alan J. Bray , Andrea Cavagna

We describe recent attempts to extract the shear viscosity of the dilute Fermi gas at unitarity from experiments involving scaling flows. A scaling flow is a solution of the hydrodynamic equations that preserves the shape of the density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Thomas Schaefer , Clifford Chafin

In full flux-surface computer studies of tokamak edge turbulence, a spectrum of shear flows is found to control the turbulence level and not just the conventional (0,0)-mode flows. Flux tube domains too small for the large poloidal scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Hallatschek

This paper is concerned with the convergence rates of subsonic flows for airfoil problem and infinite long largely-open nozzle problem, which is an improvement of [7,11,15,20]. The maximum principle is applied to estimate the potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Lei Ma , Tian-Yi Wang

The appearence of a new type of fast nonlinear traveling wave states in binary fluid convection with increasing Soret effect is elucidated and the parameter range of their bistability with the common slower ones is evaluated numerically.…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 St. Hollinger , P. Buechel , M. Luecke

New scaling relations for the mean velocity and Reynolds shear stress in viscous sublayer were proposed based on the application of matched asymptotic expansion method to the mean momentum balance. It was shown that the new parameter…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-25 Dmitrii Ph. Sikovsky

We study the distributions of channel openings, local fluxes, and velocities in a two-dimensional random medium of non-overlapping disks. We present theoretical arguments supported by numerical data of high precision and find scaling laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ascânio D. Araújo , Wagner B. Bastos , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann

This paper investigates the generation of free-surface waves in a liquid layer driven by linear instabilities in Couette-Poiseuille (quadratic) shear flows. The base velocity profiles are characterized by a curvature parameter, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Harishankar Muppirala , Ramana Patibandla , Anubhab Roy

Microfluidic systems are usually fabricated with soft materials that deform due to the fluid stresses. Recent experimental and theoretical studies on the steady flow in shallow deformable microchannels have shown that the flow rate is a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-14 A. Martínez-Calvo , A. Sevilla , G. G. Peng , H. A. Stone

One-step generative modeling has emerged as a leading approach to amortize the inference cost of diffusion and flow-matching models. Among distillation-free methods, MeanFlow training is notoriously unstable, with non-decreasing loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang