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To enforce the conservation of mass principle, a pressure Poisson equation arises in the numerical solution of incompressible fluid flow using the pressure-based segregated algorithms such as projection methods. For unsteady flows, the pressure Poisson equ ...

2023

Covariant formulation of relativistic mechanics

Miguel Alexandre Ribeiro Correia

Accretion disks surrounding compact objects, and other environmental factors, deviate satellites from geodetic motion. Unfortunately, setting up the equations of motion for such relativistic trajectories is not as simple as in Newtonian mechanics. The prin ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Numerical and experimental comparisons of the coplanar coalescence of two fluid-driven fractures

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Carlo Peruzzo

The coalescence of two coplanar fractures growing under the symmetric injection of a Newtonian fluid from two point sources provides a unique data set to validate theoretical predictions of hydraulic fracture (HF) growth. We test the theoretical prediction ...

2021

Impinging planar jets: hysteretic behaviour and origin of the self-sustained oscillations

Philippe Renaud, François Gallaire, Arnaud Bertsch, Alessandro Bongarzone

The experimental and numerical investigation presented by Bertsch et al. (Phys. Rev. Fluids, vol. 5, 2020a, p. 054202) describes the self-sustained oscillations induced by the interaction of two impinging jets in microfluidic devices. While the oscillatory ...

2021

This report is the third intermediate report of the StimDesign project which will finish in June next year. The focus is here solely on our two dimensional numerical developments. We report advances on the different building blocks of our numerical model: ...

Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE Research Programme Geothermal Energy2019

The realization of artificial microscopic swimmers able to propel in viscous fluids is an emergent research field of fundamental interest and vast technological applications. For certain functionalities, the efficiency of the microswimmer in converting the ...

2019

Pseudomonas aeruginosa orchestrates twitching motility by sequential control of type IV pili movements

Alexandre Louis André Persat, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà

Prokaryotes have the ability to walk on surfaces using type IV pili (TFP), a motility mechanism known as twitching(1,2). Molecular motors drive TFP extension and retraction, but whether and how these movements are coordinated is unknown(3). Here, we reveal ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics Model

Jiande Zhou

Create a 3D micromodel (with microfluidics technique) as a representation of complex porous media (mimic groundwater environment); Experimental and numerical study of transport phenomenon in porous media ...

2018

A new multiscale method combined with model order reduction is proposed for flow problems in three-scale porous media. We derive an effective three-scale model that couples a macroscopic Darcy equation, a mesoscopic Stokes-Brinkman equation, and a microsco ...

2017

The viscous torsional pendulum

François Gallaire, Francesco Viola

A disk that is free to rotate about its axis and connected to a torsional spring behaves as a damped oscillator when twisted and released. The initial elastic energy is periodically turned to kinetic energy and it gets progressively dissipated by the visco ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2017