Guillermo L Nozaleda, Javier Alaminos-Quesada, Cándido Gutiérrez-Montes, Antonio L Sánchez
{"title":"Steady streaming in channels with a porous interior.","authors":"Guillermo L Nozaleda, Javier Alaminos-Quesada, Cándido Gutiérrez-Montes, Antonio L Sánchez","doi":"10.1103/89kj-npfn","DOIUrl":"10.1103/89kj-npfn","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hall, in his Ph.D. thesis (University of London, 1973), demonstrated that the viscous flow arising in a slender channel of slowly varying cross section subject to a purely oscillatory pressure difference between its open ends contains a steady streaming component. This study extends the analysis to channels with a porous interior. Using a homogenized flow model that incorporates a Darcy resistance term proportional to the local velocity, a closed-form solution for the streaming motion is derived in the asymptotic limit of small stroke-to-channel length ratios <math><mi>ε</mi> <mo>≪</mo> <mn>1</mn></math> . Consistent with Hall's findings, a net flow rate is seen to arise only when the channel ends have unequal widths. The presence of a porous medium significantly attenuates the streaming-flow magnitude, with the differences between porous and nonporous channels becoming more pronounced for large Womersley numbers, a limiting case considered separately. In nonporous channels with unequal end widths the streaming motion exhibits large velocities that are comparable in magnitude to those of the oscillatory flow, whereas in porous channels the streaming velocities remain a factor <math><mi>ε</mi></math> smaller. Channels with equal end widths feature streaming recirculating vortices within near-wall Stokes boundary layers. Nonporous channels display additional recirculating vortices in the central core region, which are absent in porous configurations. These results provide insights into transport processes in biomedical and technological applications involving oscillatory flow in wall-bounded porous media.</p>","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"10 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12768334/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145912573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review FluidsPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.10.054901
Xin-Yang Liu, Meet Hemant Parikh, Xiantao Fan, Pan Du, Qing Wang, Yi-Fan Chen, Jian-Xun Wang
{"title":"CoNFiLD-inlet: Synthetic turbulence inflow using generative latent diffusion models with neural fields.","authors":"Xin-Yang Liu, Meet Hemant Parikh, Xiantao Fan, Pan Du, Qing Wang, Yi-Fan Chen, Jian-Xun Wang","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.10.054901","DOIUrl":"10.1103/physrevfluids.10.054901","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eddy-resolving turbulence simulations require stochastic inflow conditions that accurately replicate the complex, multiscale structures of turbulence. Traditional recycling-based methods rely on computationally expensive precursor simulations while existing synthetic inflow generators often fail to reproduce realistic coherent structures of turbulence. Recent advances in deep learning (DL) have opened new possibilities for inflow turbulence generation, yet many DL-based methods rely on deterministic, autoregressive frameworks prone to error accumulation, resulting in poor robustness for long-term predictions. In this work, we present CoNFiLD-inlet, a novel DL-based inflow turbulence generator that integrates diffusion models with a conditional neural field to produce realistic, stochastic inflow turbulence. By parametrizing inflow conditions using Reynolds numbers, CoNFiLD-inlet generalizes effectively across a wide range of Reynolds numbers ( <math> <msub><mrow><mtext>Re</mtext></mrow> <mrow><mi>τ</mi></mrow> </msub> </math> between 10<sup>3</sup> and 10<sup>4</sup>) without requiring retraining or parameter tuning. Comprehensive validation through <i>a priori</i> and <i>a posteriori</i> tests in direct numerical simulation and wall-modeled large-eddy simulation demonstrates its high fidelity, robustness, and scalability, positioning it as an efficient and versatile solution for inflow turbulence synthesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13108683/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147778522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review FluidsPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.10.044601
R A Heinonen, L Biferale, A Celani, M Vergassola
{"title":"Optimal trajectories for Bayesian olfactory search in turbulent flows: The low information limit and beyond.","authors":"R A Heinonen, L Biferale, A Celani, M Vergassola","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.10.044601","DOIUrl":"10.1103/physrevfluids.10.044601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In turbulent flows, tracking the source of a passive scalar cue requires exploiting the limited information that can be gleaned from rare, randomized encounters with the cue. When crafting a search policy, the most challenging and important decision is what to do in the absence of an encounter. In this work, we perform high-fidelity direct numerical simulations of a turbulent flow with a stationary source of tracer particles, and obtain quasi-optimal policies (in the sense of minimal average search time) with respect to the empirical encounter statistics [1-3]. We study the trajectories under such policies and compare the results to those of the infotaxis heuristic. In the presence of a strong mean wind, the optimal motion in the absence of an encounter is zigzagging (akin to the well-known insect behavior \"casting\") followed by a return to the starting location. The zigzag motion generates characteristic <math> <mrow><msup><mi>t</mi> <mrow><mn>1</mn> <mo>/</mo> <mn>2</mn></mrow> </msup> </mrow> </math> scaling of the rms displacement envelope. By passing to the limit where the probability of detection vanishes, we connect these results to the classical linear search problem and derive an estimate of the tail of the arrival time pdf as a stretched exponential <math><mrow><mi>p</mi> <mo>(</mo> <mi>T</mi> <mo>)</mo> <mo>∼</mo> <mtext>exp</mtext> <mo>(</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mi>k</mi> <msqrt><mi>T</mi></msqrt> <mo>)</mo></mrow> </math> for some <math><mrow><mi>k</mi> <mo>></mo> <mn>0</mn></mrow> </math> , in agreement with Monte Carlo results. We also discuss what happens as the wind speed becomes smaller.</p>","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"10 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144965062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of a water drop on a water bed of varying depth","authors":"Raghavendra Naidu S., Kamal Poddar, Sanjay Kumar","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.10.023603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.10.023603","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of liquid drop impact on a liquid surface is studied experimentally. The interplay between the inertia forces and surface tension forces during the expansion and contraction of the cavity determines the shape of the cavity. In shallow water, the cavity expansion and retraction are dominated by surface tension forces but in deep water the inertia forces and gravity forces dominate the cavity dynamics. The cavity expansion resembles a source of the potential flow below the surface of the liquid. Time resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements enable estimates of time variation of the source strength.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"10 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147920231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yonglu She, Qiang Xu, Tengfei Nie, Xinyi Luo, Mengsha Wang, Xingmiao Ye, Dengwei Jing, Liejin Guo
{"title":"Bubble oscillation and effects of dynamic behaviors on forces and mass transfer in photoelectrochemical water splitting","authors":"Yonglu She, Qiang Xu, Tengfei Nie, Xinyi Luo, Mengsha Wang, Xingmiao Ye, Dengwei Jing, Liejin Guo","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.114305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.114305","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution and accumulation of bubbles formed by gas release at the reaction interface present a considerable challenge for improving the efficiency of photoelectrochemical water splitting. Bubble oscillation enhances mass transfer and influences flow dynamics within the system. This study successfully regulates the amplitudes of bubble oscillations by adjusting system temperature and operating voltage and analyzes the mechanism and the mass transfer theory of oscillating bubbles, offering a new approach to managing bubble dynamics.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"9 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147900349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marion Berry, Christophe Josserand, Anniina Salonen, François Boulogne
{"title":"Flat-cupped transition in freezing drop impacts","authors":"Marion Berry, Christophe Josserand, Anniina Salonen, François Boulogne","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.103602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.103602","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the dynamics of alkane drops impacting a brine bath, where the temperature is tuned to freeze the drops on impact. Depending on the thermal shock and drop velocity, the result is either a flat or cupped frozen drop. By analyzing the competition between the impact dynamics and the formation of a thin layer of ice at the interface between the drop and the bath, we explain this morphological transition.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"9 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147919528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Taebel, M. L. McAllister, A. Scotti, M. Onorato, T. S. van den Bremer
{"title":"Laboratory study of wave turbulence under isotropic forcing","authors":"Z. Taebel, M. L. McAllister, A. Scotti, M. Onorato, T. S. van den Bremer","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.094803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.094803","url":null,"abstract":"The statistical treatment of random weakly nonlinear interactions between waves, called wave turbulence (WT), is fundamental to understanding the development of the ocean surface. For gravity waves, wave turbulence predicts a dual (direct and inverse) cascade of energy and wave action, which yield power-law solutions for the energy spectrum. While energy cascades were predicted more than 50 years ago, observing them in the laboratory with mechanical forcing remains a challenge. Here, we present experiments in which we attempted to reproduce both direct and inverse cascades in a large circular wave tank. The geometry of the wave tank allows for the creation of isotropically spread surface waves, which is an assumption that underlies WT theory. Although we did see evidence of a direct cascade of energy, we did not observe an inverse cascade of wave action. We discuss the competing effects of dissipation and intermittency, which may dominate or obscure the weakly nonlinear dynamics.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuxue Zhong, Jingzhu Wang, Jianlin Huang, Yiwei Wang
{"title":"Cavitation caused by an elastic membrane deforming under the jetting of a spark-induced bubble","authors":"Yuxue Zhong, Jingzhu Wang, Jianlin Huang, Yiwei Wang","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.093604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.093604","url":null,"abstract":"The collapse of a spark-induced bubble results in a high-speed jet, and when that jet impacts an elastic membrane, the latter deforms considerably and is accompanied by secondary cavitation. The cavitation bubble then moves away from the membrane with subsequent oscillation. To study the mechanism for this cavitation, experiments involving diffuse light and particle image velocimetry were conducted to capture the behaviors of the cavitation bubble and flow field resulting from the rapid deformation of the membrane. Analyzing the velocity and pressure fields reveals secondary cavitation induced by a sudden acceleration rather than a large velocity. Secondary cavitation occurs when the dimensionless inertial force overcomes the dimensionless pressure difference required for cavitation; subjecting these dimensionless quantities to a parametric study shows that the secondary cavitation occurs when the former is greater than the latter. During the collapse of the cavitation bubble, a thin jet points toward the membrane with an impact velocity of approximately 35 m/s. The subsequent oscillation of the cavitation bubble results in vortex flow moving away from the membrane. These findings provide insights into engineering applications such as bioengineering and mixing.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyle I. McKee, Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov, Kotaro Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Tagawa, John W. M. Bush
{"title":"Waves beneath a drop levitating over a moving wall","authors":"Kyle I. McKee, Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov, Kotaro Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Tagawa, John W. M. Bush","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.093603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.093603","url":null,"abstract":"In recent experiments, [E. Sawaguchi <i>et al.</i>, <span>J. Fluid Mech.</span> <b>862</b>, 261 (2019)] directly probed the lubrication layer of air beneath a droplet levitating inside a rotating cylindrical drum. For small rotation rates of the drum, the lubrication film beneath the drop adopted a steady shape, while at higher rotation rates, traveling waves propagated along the drop's lower surface with roughly half the wall velocity. Here, we rationalize the physical origin of these waves. We begin with a simplified model of the lubrication flow beneath the droplet, and examine the linear stability of this base state to perturbations of the Tollmien-Schlichting type. Our developments lead to the Orr-Sommerfeld equation (OSE), whose eigenvalues give the growth rates and phase speeds of the perturbations. By considering wavelengths long relative to the lubrication film thickness, we solve the OSE perturbatively and so deduce the wavelength and phase velocity of the most unstable mode. We find satisfactory agreement between experiment and theory over the parameter regime considered in the laboratory.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142268723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drainage-induced spontaneous film climbing in capillaries","authors":"P. Pirdavari, H. Tran, Z. He, M. Y. Pack","doi":"10.1103/physrevfluids.9.094005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.094005","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports the ability with which surface tension gradients are formed plainly by the drainage in a capillary containing a surfactant-laden liquid slug initially held in place by a vacuum. Provided that a thin film forms on the walls transverse to the downward flow, the drainage induces a surfactant gradient (i.e., Marangoni effect), which then leads to a film-climbing event against gravity. The overall climbing effect is limited by the capillary rise height (i.e., propensity for infiltration due to surface tension) and the surfactant gradient formed postmeniscus drainage, thus revealing a twofold role of surface tension in gravity-oriented capillaries hitherto unexplored. The interplay of mechanisms influencing the climbing films include surfactant kinetics, diffusion, and advection of surfactants.","PeriodicalId":20160,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review Fluids","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142251970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}