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martedì 25 marzo 2025

# gst: droplet bag formation in turbulent airflows.


AA << present numerical simulations investigating the evolution of liquid droplets into baglike structures in turbulent airflows. The droplet bag breakup problem is of significance for many multiphase processes in scientific and engineering applications. Turbulent fluctuations are introduced synthetically into a mean flow, and the droplet is inserted when the air-phase turbulence reaches a statistically stationary state. The morphological evolution of the droplet under different turbulence configurations is retrieved and analyzed in comparison with laminar aerobreakup results. While the detailed evolution history of individual droplets varies widely between different realizations of the turbulent flow, common dynamic and morphological evolution patterns are observed. >>

<< The presence of turbulence is found to enhance the drag coefficient of the droplet as it flattens. At late times, the droplet becomes tilted and increasingly corrugated under strong turbulence intensity. (AA) quantify these phenomena and discuss their possible governing mechanisms associated with turbulence intermittency. >>

<< Lastly, the influences of liquid-gas viscosity ratio are examined and the implications of air-phase turbulence on the later bag film breakup process are discussed. >>️

Kaitao Tang, Thomas A. A. Adcock, Wouter Mostert. Droplet bag formation in turbulent airflows. Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 033604. March 19, 2025.

Also: drop, droplet, droploid, turbulence, fluctuations, intermittency, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, turbulence, fluctuations, intermittency

sabato 8 marzo 2025

# gst: 'jazzy' intermittency, its onset and multiscaling in active turbulence.

<< Recent results suggest that highly active, chaotic, nonequilibrium states of living fluids might share much in common with high Reynolds number, inertial turbulence. (AA) now show, by using a hydrodynamical model, the onset of intermittency and the consequent multiscaling of Eulerian and Lagrangian structure functions as a function of the bacterial activity. (Their) results bridge the worlds of low and high Reynolds number flows as well as open up intriguing possibilities of what makes flows intermittent. >>️

AA << believe that (Their) work significantly understands the dynamics of dense bacterial suspensions in ways which isolates the truly turbulent effects from those stemming from simpler chaotic motion. More intriguingly, and at a broader conceptual framework, this study yet again underlines that intermittency can be an emergent phenomena in flows where the nonlinearity does not, trivially, dominate the viscous damping. Indeed, there is increasing evidence of intermittency emerging in systems which are not turbulent in the classical sense. Examples include flows with modest Reynolds number of∼O(10e2) showing intermittent behaviour characteristic of high Reynolds turbulence, self-propelling active droplets with intermittent fluctuations, active matter systems of self-propelled particles, which undergo a glass transition, with an intermittent phase before dynamical arrest, and perhaps most pertinently, in elastic turbulence. Thus, (AA) believe, (Their) work will contribute further to understanding what causes flows to turn intermittent. Answers to such questions will also help in understanding fundamental questions in high Reynolds number turbulence. >>️

Kolluru Venkata Kiran, Kunal Kumar, et al. Onset of Intermittency and Multiscaling in Active Turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 088302. Feb 28, 2025. 

Also: intermittency, transition, fluctuations, drop, droplet, droploid, elastic, turbulence, chaos, jazz, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, intermittency, transitions, fluctuations, drops, droplets, droploids, elasticity, turbulence, chaos, jazz


giovedì 6 marzo 2025

# gst: turbulence-induced fluctuating interfaces in heterogeneously-active suspensions.

AA << investigate the effects of heterogeneous (spatially varying) activity in a hydrodynamical model for dense bacterial suspensions, confining ourselves to experimentally realizable, simple, quenched, activity patterns. (They) show that the evolution of the bacterial velocity field under such activity patterning leads to the emergence of hydrodynamic interfaces separating spatially localized turbulence from jammed frictional surroundings. (They) characterise the intermittent and multiscale fluctuations of this interface and also investigate how heterogeneity influences mixing via the residence times of Lagrangian tracers. >>

This AA work << reveals how naturally occurring heterogeneities could decisively steer active flows into more complex configurations than those typically studied, opening up parallels to droplet dynamics, front propagation and turbulent mixing layers. >>️

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Kunal Kumar, Samriddhi Sankar Ray. Turbulence-Induced Fluctuating Interfaces in Heterogeneously-Active Suspensions. arXiv: 2502.16443v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Feb 23, 2025. 

Also: fluctuations, turbulence, vortex, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fluctuations, vortices, turbulence, turbulent and quiescent flows


martedì 31 dicembre 2024

# gst: stochastic adaptation, stochastic resonance.

<< Stochastic resonance is a phenomenon possessed by some nonlinear oscillators, in which a weak signal is boosted by noise. Both the monostable and bistable Duffing oscillators can exhibit this property. However, stochastic resonance has a strong frequency-dependence, as only a band of frequencies may be boosted by noise. >>️

<< Adaptive oscillators are a subset of nonlinear oscillators that can learn the features of an external force. (In this AA work), an adaptive state is added to a Duffing oscillator. This adaptive state enables the Duffing adaptive oscillator to outperform stochastic resonance over a wide range of frequencies by learning a resonance condition. >>️

Edmon Perkins. Comparison of stochastic adaptation and stochastic resonance. Phys. Rev. E 110, 064225. Dec 27, 2024.

Also: fluctuations, noise, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fluctuations, noise, transition, stochasticity, stochastic adaptation, stochastic resonance


mercoledì 11 dicembre 2024

# gst: turbulence in viscous binary fluid mixtures induced by interfacial fluctuations.

AA << demonstrate the existence of interface-induced turbulence, an emergent nonequilibrium statistically steady state with spatiotemporal chaos, which is induced by interfacial fluctuations in low-Reynolds-number binary-fluid mixtures. >>️

<< Furthermore (they) demonstrate diffusive behavior at long times, a hallmark of strong mixing in turbulent flows. >>️

Nadia Bihari Padhan, Dario Vincenzi, Rahul Pandit. Interface-induced turbulence in viscous binary fluid mixtures. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, L122401. Dec 3, 2024. 

Also: fluctuations, turbulence, transition,  in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fluctuations, turbulence, transition 



lunedì 14 ottobre 2024

# gst: apropos of fluctuations, an unconventional approach to (fuzzy) morphogenesis

AA << propose an unconventional mechanism where stochastic fluctuations drive the emergence of morphological patterns. >>️

In this approach << the inherent fluctuations determine the nature of the dynamics and are not incidental noise in the background of the otherwise deterministic dynamics. Instead, they play an important role as a driving force that defines the attributes of the pattern formation dynamics and the nature of the transition itself.  >>️

Oded Agam and Erez Braun. Fluctuation-driven morphological patterning: An unconventional approach to morphogenesis. Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043027. Oct 10, 2024.

Also: disorder & fluctuations, self-assembly, metamorphosis, transition, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, disorder, fluctuations,  self-assembly, metamorphosis, transition, noise


lunedì 9 settembre 2024

# gst: critical crack length during fracture.

AA << established an inverse correlation between the strength of the material and the cracks which grow inside it—both the maximum crack and the one that sets in instability within the system, defined to be the critical crack. >>

AA << found that the maximum and the critical crack often differ from each other unless the disorder strength is extremely low. A phase diagram on the plane of disorder vs system size demarcates between the regions where the largest crack is the most vulnerable one and where they differ from each other but still show moderate correlation. >>️

Viswakannan R.K., Subhadeep Roy. Critical crack length during fracture. Phys. Rev. E 110, 024134. Aug 26, 2024.

Also: crack, instability, fluctuations, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, crack, instability, fluctuations, noise, criticality


mercoledì 3 luglio 2024

# gst: when generalized diffusion could result from stochastic processes.

<< Despite the success of fractional Brownian motion (fBm) in modeling systems that exhibit anomalous diffusion due to temporal correlations, recent experimental and theoretical studies highlight the necessity for a more comprehensive approach of a generalization that incorporates heterogeneities in either the tracers or the environment. >>

AA present << a modification of Lévy's representation of fBm for the case in which the generalized diffusion coefficient is a stochastic process. (They) derive analytical expressions for the autocovariance function and both ensemble- and time-averaged mean squared displacements. Further, (AA)  validate the efficacy of the developed framework in two-state systems, comparing analytical asymptotic expressions with numerical simulations. >>️

Adrian Pacheco-Pozo, Diego Krapf. Fractional Brownian motion with fluctuating diffusivities. Phys. Rev. E 110, 014105. Jul 1, 2024.

Also: disorder, fluctuations, network, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fractional Brownian motion, fBm, Lévy, disorder, fluctuations, anomalous, network, transition


sabato 17 febbraio 2024

# life: it’s time to admit that ...

<< For too long, scientists have been content in espousing the lazy metaphor of living systems operating simply like machines, (..) Yet, it’s important to be open about the complexity of biology — including what we don’t know — because public understanding affects policy, health care and trust in science.  “So long as we insist that cells are computers and genes are their code,” writes Ball, life might as well be “sprinkled with invisible magic”. But, reality “is far more interesting and wonderful”, as he explains in this must-read user’s guide for biologists and non-biologists alike. >>️

Denis Noble. It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life. Nature. 626, 254-255 (2024). Feb 5,  2024. 

Philip Ball. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Pan Macmillan (2024). 

Also: disorder, disorder & fluctuation, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html  

Keywords: life, disorder, fluctuations

FonT: this point of view, published in the 70s-80s, would have made a damned impression. 


sabato 16 dicembre 2023

# gst: correlated noise and critical dimensions.

<< In equilibrium, the Mermin-Wagner theorem prohibits the continuous symmetry breaking for all dimensions d≤2. In this work, (AA) discuss that this limitation can be circumvented in nonequilibrium systems driven by the spatiotemporally long-range anticorrelated noise. >>

<< results suggest that the critical dimensions increase when the noise is positively correlated in space and time and decrease when anticorrelated. (AA)  also report that the spherical model with the correlated noise shows the hyperuniformity and giant number fluctuation even well above the critical point. >>️

Harukuni Ikeda. Correlated noise and critical dimensions. Phys. Rev. E 108, 064119. Dec 13, 2023.

Also: noise, fluctuations, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, noise, fluctuations


lunedì 14 agosto 2023

# gst: rich behaviors from stochastic walking with variable long jumps.


AA << propose a generalized model where the random walker takes stochastic jumps of lengths proportional to its present position with certain probability, otherwise it makes forward and backward jumps of fixed (unit) length with given rates. The model exhibits a rich stochastic dynamic behavior.  (AA) obtain exact analytic results for the first two moments of the walker's displacement and show that a phase transition from a diffusive to superdiffusive regime occurs if the stochastic jumps of lengths that are twice (or more) of its present positions are allowed. This phase transition is accompanied by a reentrant diffusive behavior. >> 

Upendra Harbola. Stochastic walker with variable long jumps. Phys. Rev. E 108, 014135. July 28, 2023. 

Also: walk, noise, fluctuations, dance,  in: https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, walks, random walks, noise, fluctuations



lunedì 24 aprile 2023

# gst: emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuations.


AA << introduce and study a model of active Brownian motion with multiplicative noise describing fluctuations in the self-propulsion or activity. (They) find that the standard picture of density accumulation in slow regions is qualitatively modified by active fluctuations, as stationary density profiles are generally not determined only by the mean self-propulsion speed landscape. As a result, activity gradients generically correlate the particle self-propulsion speed and orientation, leading to emergent polarization at interfaces pointing either towards dense or dilute regions depending on the amount of noise in the system.  >>
Benoit Mahault, Prakhar Godara, Ramin Golestanian. Emergent organization and polarization due to active fluctuations. Phys. Rev. Research 5, L022012. April 12, 2023. 

Also: 'particle', 'fluctuations', 'noise', 'self-assembly' in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, particle, organization, polarization, fluctuations, noise, self-propulsion, self-assembly 



venerdì 12 agosto 2022

# gst: like steering a marble through a tilting labyrinth, randomness seems to quickly deliver specific outcomes.

<< According to the infinite monkey theorem, a monkey randomly hitting the keys of a typewriter will eventually write something worth reading—but it might take a few trillion years of trying. For those lacking the patience to wait, (AA)  now show that randomness can deliver specific outcomes much more quickly.  Simulating a 2D nanocluster of a dozen particles, (they) determine the temperature at which thermal fluctuations can most quickly rearrange those particles into a predetermined shape. They find that this time can be dramatically cut by applying an appropriate macroscopic force to the particles. >>

<< The duo also simulated nanoclusters that were subject to a macroscopic force field, for example, metallic nanoparticles in an electric field. Like steering a marble through a tilting labyrinth, they found the optimal global force to apply at each iteration such that the nanocluster navigated the space of possible configurations several orders of magnitude more quickly. >>️️

Marric Stephens. Rearranging Nanoclusters Using Randomness. Physics 15, s83. Jun 22, 2022. 

Francesco Boccardo, Olivier Pierre-Louis. Controlling the Shape of Small Clusters with and without Macroscopic Fields. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256102. Jun 22, 2022.  

Also

keyword 'random' in FonT:


keyword 'error' | 'fuzzy' | 'noise'  in FonT 




keywords 'errore' | 'errori' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)



keywords 'jelly roll' in FonT


Keywords: gst, nano, nanocluster, fluctuations, randomness, noise











sabato 30 ottobre 2021

# gst: apropos of transitions, perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities; the 'porous individualism'

<< given the observation that disorder can suppress the transition to elastic turbulence in 2D porous media (..), it has been unclear whether and how this transition manifests in disordered 3D media — though elastic turbulence has been speculated to underlie the long-standing observation that the macroscopic flow resistance of an injected polymer solution can abruptly increase above a threshold flow rate in a porous medium, but not in bulk solution >>️

AA << found that the transition to unstable flow in each pore is continuous, arising due to the increased persistence of discrete bursts of instability above a critical value of the characteristic (Weissenberg no.) Wi; however, the onset value varies from pore to pore. This observation that single pores exposed to the same macroscopic flow rate become unstable in different ways provides a fascinating pore-scale analog of “molecular individualism” [P.  De Gennes, Molecular individualism. Science 276, 1999–2000 (1997)], in which single polymers exposed to the same extensional flow elongate in different ways; the authors therefore termed it “porous individualism”, although it is important to note that here, this effect is still at the continuum (not molecular) scale. Thus, unstable flow is spatially heterogeneous across the different pores of the medium, with unstable and laminar regions coexisting >>

AA << quantitatively established that the energy dissipated by unstable pore-scale fluctuations generates an anomalous increase in flow resistance through the entire medium that agrees well with macroscopic pressure drop measurements. >>

Sujit S. Datta, Arezoo M. Ardekani, et al. Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence. arXiv: 2108.09841v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Aug 22, 2021. 



keywords: gst, droplet, fluctuations, disorder, instability, viscoelastic flow instability, turbulence, elastic turbulence, individualism, porous individualism, transition

mercoledì 6 ottobre 2021

# gst: apropos of disorder & fluctuations

a 'synthetic disorder & fluctuations' from these two blogs ... 

keyword 'disorder' in FonT 

keyword 'disordine' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) 

keyword 'error' | 'fuzzy' | 'noise'  in FonT



keywords 'errore' | 'errori' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)


keyword 'caos' | 'caotico' in Notes  (quasi-stochastic poetry) 


keyword 'waves' in FonT 

keyword 'onda' in Notes 
(quasi-stochastic poetry) 

keyword 'gst' (General Sistem Theory) in FonT 





lunedì 25 gennaio 2021

# gst: apropos of the structure of natural codes, a RNA folding knot (origami-style) dance

 << Every second, a myriad of shapeless strands of RNA fold, origami-style, into intricate structures inside living cells. Now, for the first time, researchers can watch a data-driven video of this folding as RNA molecules are made by the cellular machinery. >> 

<< as the RNA strand grows, it twists, forming knot-like structures. But as more RNA building blocks are added to the strand, the knots unravel, allowing the molecule’s structure to emerge. >> 

Ground-breaking films show RNA’s complex curves take shape. Experimental data and predictive algorithms combine to reveal the essential biomolecule’s shape-shifting.
Nature. Jan 19, 2021. 


AA << model the folding of an RNA called SRP, an ancient RNA found in all kingdoms of life. The molecule is well-known for its signature hairpin shape. When watching the videos, the researchers discovered that the molecule ties itself into a knot and unties itself very quickly. Then it suddenly flips into the correct hairpin-like structure using an elegant folding pathway called toehold mediated strand displacement. >>

<< To the best of our knowledge, this has never been seen in nature, (..) We think the RNA has evolved to untie itself from knots because if knots persist, it can render the RNA nonfunctional. The structure is so essential to life that it had to evolve to find a way to get out of a knot. >> Julius Lucks. 

Amanda Morris. New Videos Show RNA as it's Never Been Seen. First-ever data-driven movies illuminate RNA's mysterious folding process.  McCormick School of Engineering. Jan 15, 2021.



Angela M Yu, Paul M. Gasper, et al. Computationally reconstructing cotranscriptional RNA folding from experimental data reveals rearrangement of non-native folding intermediates. Molecular Cell. doi: 10.1016/ j.molcel.2020.12.017
Jan 15, 2021. 




lunedì 2 novembre 2020

# gst: density fluctuations may exist in an amorphous matrix

<< Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced as an amorphous thin film. In such amorphous films, the atomic structure is disordered like in a liquid or glass. If additional hydrogen is incorporated during the production of these thin layers, so-called a-Si:H layers are formed. >>

<< With this study, we show that the a-Si:H is by no means a homogeneously amorphous material. The amorphous matrix is interspersed with nanometre-sized areas of varying local density, from cavities to areas of extremely high order, >> Klaus Lips

<< We find a nanoscopic order in the disorder of the a-Si:H layers by X-ray scattering measurements (..) We were then able to determine the distribution of the hydrogen atoms in the amorphous network by neutron scattering (..) We were able to discover nanometer-sized voids, which are created by slightly more than 10 missing atoms. These voids arrange themselves into clusters with a recurrent distance of about 1.6 nanometres to each other, >> Eike Gericke

Density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discovered. Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. Oct 29, 2020. 



Eike Gericke, Jimmy Melskens, et al. Quantification of Nanoscale Density Fluctuations in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 185501. Oct 29,  2020. 



lunedì 17 agosto 2020

# gst: vacuum fluctuations (even in complete darkness)

<< physics is increasingly discovering how our universe is shaped by fluctuations of physical fields, which not only lead to tiny shifts of spectral lines of atoms, but moreover may cause the evaporation of black holes, and are ultimately responsible for the large-scale structure of our universe,  >>

AA  << have now made a large leap toward controlling strongly enhanced vacuum fluctuations much faster than typical timescales of virtual photons. To this end, they created a specialized semiconductor structure in which electrons are extremely strongly coupled to the light fields of tiny antennas designed for the so-called terahertz spectral range. As a result, vacuum fluctuations of light and matter fields participate in the interaction, strongly increasing the presence of virtual photons—even in complete darkness. >>

Understanding vacuum fluctuations in space. University of Regensburg. Aug 10, 2020.


<< The abrupt modification of the vacuum ground state causes spectrally broadband polarization oscillations confirmed by (AA) quantum model. In the future, this subcycle shaping of hybrid quantum states may trigger cavity-induced quantum chemistry, vacuum-modified transport or cavity-controlled superconductivity, opening new scenarios >>

M. Halbhuber, J. Mornhinweg, et al. Non-adiabatic stripping of a cavity field from electrons in the deep-strong coupling regime. Nat. Photonics. doi: 10.1038/ s41566-020-0673-2. Aug 10, 2020.




martedì 21 aprile 2020

# gst: apropos of strange fluctuations in oscillation and translation

<< The dynamical processes of the inner core rely significantly on the viscous strength of iron. Since plastic deformation of iron may produce crystallographic preferred orientations  (CPO), creep is commonly considered to be a potential source contributing to the seismic anisotropy observed in the inner core. The viscosity of the inner core also influences the rotational dynamics of the Earth. >>

AA << show  that  dislocation  creep  is  a key  mechanism driving  deformation  of  hcp (hexagonal  close  packed) iron  at  inner  core  conditions. The  associated  viscosity  agrees well  with  the  estimates  from  geophysical  observations  supporting  that  the  inner  core  is  significantly less  viscous  than  the  Earth’s  mantle. Such  low  viscosity  rules  out  inner  core  translation,  with  melting on one side  and  solidification  on  the  opposite,  but  allows  for  the  occurrence  of  the  seismically  observed fluctuations  in  inner  core  differential  rotation. >>

Sebastian Ritterbex & Taku Tsuchiya. Viscosity of hcp iron at Earth’s inner core conditions from density functional theory. Sci Rep 10, 6311 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-63166-6. Apr 14, 2020.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63166-6

Is the Earth's inner core oscillating and translating anomalously? Ehime University.  Apr 14, 2020.

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-earth-core-oscillating-anomalously.html