Nonlinear dynamics in fluids is a research area focused on the analysis and prediction of fluid flows governed by nonlinear partial differential equations, such as the Navier–Stokes and Euler equations. It investigates phenomena including hydrodynamic instabilities, transition to turbulence, coherent structures, pattern formation, and spatiotemporal chaos across a wide range of Reynolds numbers. Methods commonly involve asymptotic analysis, bifurcation theory, dynamical systems approaches, numerical simulation, and experimental visualization. The field aims to characterize attractors, energy cascades, and multiscale interactions in laminar, transitional, and turbulent regimes, informing modeling, control, and reduced-order descriptions of complex fluid behavior in both natural and engineered systems.
Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract dynamic systems with observable computational elements like input, output, energy cost, and logical ...
General Physics
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Researchers from Skoltech have published a paper in the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena presenting an analysis of steady propagating combustion waves—from slow flames to supersonic detonation waves. The study relies ...
General Physics
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Bio & Medicine
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The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes equations—a set of ...
General Physics
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The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions via a process called cell fate determination. The fate of individual cells, or in other words, what ...
The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles may accumulate below the ocean surface remains unknown. The vastness of the ocean means particle ...
Earth Sciences
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University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic "ocean" on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a layer of superfluid helium ...
Soft Matter
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Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" has stirred the souls of art lovers for over a century. Now, its swirling skies may also speak to physicists, as it echoes the patterns of quantum turbulence.
Quantum Physics
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Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, spinning cylinders to confirm that an uneven wobble in a ring of electrically conductive fluid like liquid ...
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In the Quantum Mixtures Lab of the National Institute of Optics (Cnr-Ino), a team of researchers from Cnr, the University of Florence and the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) observed the phenomenon ...
Quantum Physics
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