1210 papers
Fluid dynamics explores how liquids and gases move, shaping everything from weather patterns to the flow of blood through our veins. This field bridges the gap between abstract mathematical equations and the tangible forces that drive our physical world, offering insights into turbulence, aerodynamics, and fluid behavior in complex environments.
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Below, you will find the most recent studies in fluid dynamics, curated and explained for a broader audience.
This paper reports direct experimental observations of self-organized rotating premixed flames in a circular Hele-Shaw burner, characterizing their transition from single-headed to multi-headed patterns and eventually to steady ring-shaped flames across various flow rates and fuels, while identifying a critical mass flow rate for the rotating-steady transition that is insensitive to equivalence ratio, gap distance, and fuel type.
This study utilizes counterflow analysis and direct numerical simulations to demonstrate that Soret diffusion significantly alters the intrinsic instability of premixed hydrogen/air flames by accelerating small-scale wrinkling in lean conditions, reducing large-scale finger structures, and ultimately decreasing global fuel consumption despite increased local flame speeds.
This paper derives asymptotic models for the ultimate regimes of horizontal and internally heated convection by combining turbulent boundary-layer relations with exact dissipation balances, revealing that their kinetic-energy scaling exponents are 1/3—distinct from the 1/2 exponent in Rayleigh-Bénard convection—due to the absence of a specific response factor in their global kinetic-energy balances.
This paper presents a hydro-elastic theory demonstrating that slender elastic floaters in gravity waves undergo a wave-induced second-order mean yaw moment that drives them toward a preferential orientation, where soft, short, and heavy structures align longitudinally while stiff, long, and light ones align transversely.
This study investigates the axial forces in liquid bridges of viscoelastic polymer solutions between spherical beads, revealing that while quasi-static forces are dominated by capillarity, higher stretching rates significantly increase peak forces through viscous dissipation and delay rupture, with key metrics collapsing under capillary and Weissenberg number scaling to establish a predictive particle-scale force law for polymeric binders.
This paper clarifies the distinct physical roles and interpretations of the Deborah and Weissenberg numbers in characterizing the competition between elastic and viscous effects in viscoelastic flows by analyzing both an unsteady planar flow solution and a numerical simulation of flow between rotating coaxial cylinders using the Oldroyd-B model.
This paper investigates the laminar pathway of planet formation by demonstrating that dust-induced adjustments in vortex vorticity inevitably lead to elliptical instability and destruction, thereby imposing an upper limit on vortex lifetimes that may prevent the formation of planetesimals.
This paper demonstrates that a cousin of the streaming instability remains active within vortices by extending resonant drag instability theory to non-modal waves in a vortex-following shearing box, thereby strengthening the case for vortex-induced planetesimal formation while clarifying the nature of dust-driven vortex instabilities.
This paper demonstrates that a high-order Spectral Difference method equipped with a posteriori limiting and a well-balanced scheme effectively addresses the dual challenges of low-Mach number flows and minute perturbations in stellar convection, identifying a fourth-order variant as the optimal solution for accurately capturing small-amplitude convective and acoustic modes.
This paper presents an explicit and exact solution to the governing equations describing the vertical structure of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, modeling the halocline as nonhydrostatic, near-inertial Pollard waves within a three-layer stratified water column.