Triangular instability of a strained Batchelor vortex

This study combines theoretical analysis and numerical simulations to demonstrate that a stationary triangular strain field induces resonant instability in a Batchelor vortex, where the introduction of axial flow reduces critical layer damping to activate additional unstable mode pairs and ultimately shifts the dominant instability from a specific mode combination to one involving the first branches of both azimuthal wavenumbers.

A. S. P. Ayapilla (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Y. Hattori (Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), S. Le Dizès (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, IRPHE, Marseille, France)Tue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Modelling Material Injection Into Porous Structures Under Non-isothermal Conditions

This paper extends the Theory of Porous Media to model non-isothermal material injection into porous structures, specifically for percutaneous vertebroplasty, by incorporating local thermal non-equilibrium conditions and demonstrating thermodynamic consistency through numerical simulations.

Jan-Sören L. Völter (University of Stuttgart), Zubin Trivedi (University of Stuttgart), Andreas Boger (Ansbach University of Applied Sciences), Tim Ricken (University of Stuttgart), Oliver Röhrle (University of Stuttgart)Tue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots

This paper proposes a trajectory-driven global optimization framework, inspired by CMA-ES, that enables unified, high-fidelity structural-hydrodynamic modeling of underwater underactuated and soft robotic systems by simultaneously identifying coupled internal and external parameters, achieving accurate real-to-sim consistency across diverse mechanisms without manual retuning.

Chenrui Zhang, Yiyuan Zhang, Yunfei Ye, Junkai Chen, Haozhe Wang, Cecilia LaschiTue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Glassy phase transition in immiscible steady-state two-phase flow in porous media

This paper demonstrates that the macroscopic behavior of non-equilibrium two-phase flow in porous media can be successfully predicted by mapping droplet distributions onto an equilibrium spin-glass model derived via machine learning and the maximum entropy principle, revealing that the transition to a glassy flow regime with hysteresis and non-linear dynamics coincides with the spin-glass phase transition.

Santanu Sinha, Humberto Carmona, José S. Andrade Jr., Alex HansenTue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Manifold-Adapted Sparse RBF-SINDy: Unbiased Library Construction and Unsupervised Discovery of Dynamical States in Turbulent Wall Flows

This paper introduces Manifold-Adapted Sparse RBF-SINDy, an unsupervised framework that recovers the geometric skeleton of turbulent wall flow dynamics from wall measurements alone by correcting structural biases in library construction through arc-length resampling and Mahalanobis metric clustering, thereby enabling the discovery of distinct dynamical states and the reconstruction of the system's invariant measure.

Miguel Perez-Cuadrado, Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Alfredo PinelliTue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Adaptive shape control for microswimmer navigation in turbulence

This paper demonstrates that a shape-changing microswimmer, guided by reinforcement learning to adapt its aspect ratio based on local flow signals, can robustly maximize its displacement in turbulent environments, outperforming fixed-shape strategies and revealing a physically interpretable control paradigm for navigation in complex flows.

Jingran Qiu, Lorenzo Piro, Luca Biferale, Massimo Cencini, Bernhard Mehlig, Kristian GustavssonTue, 10 Ma🔬 physics

Meta-PINNs: Meta-Learning Enhanced Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Turbomachinery Flow Predictions under Varying Operation Conditions

This paper proposes a Meta-PINNs framework that integrates meta-learning to enhance physics-informed neural networks, demonstrating significantly improved convergence, generalization, and accuracy with reduced computational costs for predicting turbomachinery flows under varying operating conditions compared to standard methods.

Yuling Han, Zhihui Li, Zhibin YuTue, 10 Ma🔬 physics