Numerical investigation on solids settling in a non-Newtonian slurry inside a horizontal flumeSlurry transportation is always crucial for many industrial processes. This study numerically investigates the settling behavior of multisize solid particles in a non-newtonian slurry inside a…Shubham Sharma, Somasekhara Goud Sontti, Wenming Zhang et al.·Jul 15, 2025SaveLearn
Plane-layer Rayleigh-B\'enard convection up to Ra=1011: Near-wall fluctuations and role of initial conditionsWe study turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection through direct numerical simulations in a three-dimensional plane layer of aspect ratio 4 for Rayleigh numbers 105 ≤ Ra ≤ 1011 and Prandtl…Roshan J. Samuel, Jörg Schumacher·Jul 15, 2025SaveLearn
Impacts of flow velocity and microbubbles on water flushing in a horizontal pipelineWater flushing to remove particle sediment is essential for safe and continuous transport of many industrial slurries through pipelines. An efficient flushing strategy may reduce water consumption…Mohammadhossein Golchin, Siyu Chen, Shubham Sharma et al.·Jul 15, 2025SaveLearn
Disk impact on a boiling liquid: Dynamics of the entrapped vapor pocketUpon the impact of a flat disk on a boiling liquid, i.e., a liquid that is in thermal equilibrium with its own vapor, a thin vapor layer is entrapped under the disk. Due to the tendency of vapor to…Yee Li Fan, Bernardo Palacios Muniz, Nayoung Kim et al.·Jul 15, 2025SaveLearn
Mesoscience-based structural theory for heterogeneous gas-solid flowsQuantification of the spatiotemporal dynamics of heterogeneous gas-solid flows is critical for the design, scale-up and optimization of gas-solid reactors. In this article, by using the core concept…Yige Liu, Bidan Zhao, Junwu Wang·Jul 15, 2025SaveLearn
Sublimation and deposition at a solid sphere in the presence of a non-condensable gasThe sublimation/deposition process at a solid sphere of argon into its vapor in the presence of helium as a background gas is modeled applying the linearized Boltzmann equation, in which the…Denize Kalempa, Felix Sharipov, Irina Graur·Jul 14, 2025SaveLearn
Imprints of turbulence on heterogeneous deposition of adhesive particlesWe present direct numerical simulations (DNS) of particle deposition in a turbulent channel flow, incorporating a viscoelastic soft-sphere collision model with temperature-dependent van der Waals…Max P. Herzog, Jesse Capecelatro·Jul 14, 2025SaveLearn
On energy consistency of intermediate states in HLL-type MHD Riemann solversApproximate Riemann solvers are widely used for solving hyperbolic conservation laws, including those of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). However, due to the nonlinearity and complexity of MHD, obtaining…Fan Zhang, Andrea Lani, Stefaan Poedts·Jul 14, 2025SaveLearn
Weak Detonations Revisited: Uncovering Its General Nature Using Autoignitive Reaction Wave ConceptWeak detonations have remained experimentally elusive since their theoretical prediction, with previous realization attempts requiring either pathological detonations or Zeldovich spontaneous waves.…Youhi Morii, Kaoru Maruta·Jul 14, 2025SaveLearn
Importance of gravitational effects on the performances of a fully passive oscillating-foil turbine deployed horizontallyThis article presents a numerical study evaluating the impact of gravity on the performance of a fully passive oscillating-foil turbine operating in a horizontal configuration, that is, where the…Alexina Roy-Saillant, Guy Dumas, Leandro Duarte et al.·Jul 14, 2025SaveLearn
A sharp and conservative method for modeling interfacial flows with insoluble surfactants in the framework of a geometric volume-of-fluid approachInsoluble surfactants adsorbed at liquid-liquid or gas-liquid interfaces alter interfacial tension, leading to variations in the normal stress jump and generating tangential Marangoni stresses that…Zhong-Han Xue, Jacques Magnaudet, Jie Zhang·Jul 13, 2025SaveLearn
Computational Aerothermal Framework and Analysis of Stetson Mach 6 Blunt ConeAccurately predicting aerothermal behavior is paramount for the effective design of hypersonic vehicles, as aerodynamic heating plays a pivotal role in influencing performance metrics and structural…Arturo Rodriguez, Piyush Kumar, Cesar Diaz-Caraveo et al.·Jul 12, 2025SaveLearn
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Estimating Convective Heat Transfer in Jet Impingement Cooling: A Comparison with Conjugate Heat Transfer SimulationsEfficient cooling is vital for the performance and reliability of modern systems such as electronics, nuclear reactors, and industrial equipment. Jet impingement cooling is widely used for its high…Arijit Hazra, Prahar Sarkar, Sourav Sarkar·Jul 12, 2025SaveLearn
Size Amplification of Jet Drops due to Insoluble SurfactantsSurface bubbles in the environment or engineering configurations, such as the ocean-atmosphere interface, sparkling wine, or during volcanic eruptions typically live on contaminated surfaces. A…Jun Eshima, Tristan Aurégan, Palas Kumar Farsoiya et al.·Jul 12, 2025SaveLearn
Vorticity dynamics and drag for flows over a sphere and a prolate spheroidThe connection between the drag and vorticity dynamics for viscous flow over a bluff body is explored using the Josephson-Anderson (J-A) relation for classical fluids. The instantaneous rate of work…Yifan Du, Tamer A. Zaki·Jul 12, 2025SaveLearn
WellPINN: Accurate Well Representation for Transient Fluid Pressure Diffusion in Subsurface Reservoirs with Physics-Informed Neural NetworksAccurate representation of wells is essential for reliable reservoir characterization and simulation of operational scenarios in subsurface flow models. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have…Linus Walter, Qingkai Kong, Sara Hanson-Hedgecock et al.·Jul 12, 2025SaveLearn
Fluid Dynamical Pathways of Airborne Transmission while Waiting in a LineWaiting in a line (or a queue) is an important, often unavoidable social interaction that occurs frequently in public spaces. Despite its wide prevalence and rich parametric variability, few studies…Ruixi Lou, Milo van Mooy, Gabriel A Tarditti et al.·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Wavy optimal flows for heat transfer in channelsWe compute incompressible two-dimensional fluid flows that maximize the rate of heat transfer from the walls of a straight channel given a specified flow input power Pe2, where Pe is the…Shivani Prabala, Silas Alben·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Physics-Based Machine Learning Closures and Wall Models for Hypersonic Transition-Continuum Boundary Layer PredictionsModeling rarefied hypersonic flows remains a fundamental challenge due to the breakdown of classical continuum assumptions in the transition-continuum regime, where the Knudsen number ranges from…Ashish S. Nair, Narendra Singh, Marco Panesi et al.·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Turbulent heat transfer in open-channel flows with a thermally-conductive porous wallResults of direct numerical simulations (DNS) of porous-wall turbulent flows in open channels with conjugate heat transfer are reported in this work. For the conductive porous walls considered here,…Seyed Morteza Habibi Khorasani, Geert Brethouwer, Shervin Bagheri·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Active flow control of vertical-axis wind turbines: Insights from large-eddy simulation and finite-time resolvent analysisActive flow control is applied to improve the aerodynamic performance of a NACA0018 airfoil operating as a single-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Results computed by wall-resolved…Lucas Feitosa de Souza, Renato Fuzaro Miotto, William Roberto Wolf·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Interfacial Entanglement-Induced Time-Dependent Solidification of Polymeric FluidsThe structure of polymers at solid interfaces evolves over time, but the corresponding changes in their rheological properties remain poorly understood. Here, using a home-built quartz tuning fork…Jaewon Shim, Manhee Lee, Wonho Jhe·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Impacts of internal heating on temperature distribution in channelsIn molten-salt-fuelled reactor systems, the fluid may experience substantial volumetric heat generation in addition to heat removal from surrounding structures. To quantify these effects, we…Lubomír Bureš, Per Nilsson·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Generative artificial intelligence and hybrid models to accelerate LES in reactive flows: Application to hydrogen/methane combustionWith increasing emphasis on carbon neutrality, accurate and efficient combustion prediction has become essential for the design and optimization of new generation combustion systems. This study…Xiangrui Zou, Rodrigo Abadia-Heredia, Laura Saavedra et al.·Jul 11, 2025SaveLearn
Predicting Flow Dynamics using Diffusion ModelsIn this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting…Yannick Gachnang, Vismay Churiwala·Jul 10, 2025SaveLearn