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martedì 21 febbraio 2023

# gst: towards (insights into) intermittency and inhomogeneity of turbulent mixing

<< Fluid elements deform in turbulence by stretching and folding. In this work, by projecting the material deformation tensor onto the largest stretching direction, the dynamics of folding is depicted through the evolution of the material curvature. Results from direct numerical simulation (DNS) show that the curvature growth exhibits two regimes, first a linear stage dominated by folding fluid elements through a persistent velocity Hessian which then transitions to an exponential growth driven by the stretching of already strongly bent fluid elements. This transition leads to strong curvature intermittency at later stages, which can be explained by a proposed curvature-evolution model. The link between velocity Hessian to folding provides a new way to understand the crucial steps in energy cascade and mixing in turbulence beyond the classical linear description. >>

Yinghe Qi, Charles Meneveau, Greg Voth, Rui Ni. Folding dynamics and its intermittency in turbulence. arXiv: 2301.10341v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jan 24, 2023. 

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Keywords: gst, intermittency, turbulence, transition


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venerdì 17 febbraio 2023

# gst: apropos of bouncing, even balls that undergo rolling are typically found to lift off slipping.

<< A detailed set of experiments are described that capture over a 1000 different instances of the bounce of a golf ball. (..) Data are presented from two different turfs; one artificial and one from a typical tee. >>

<< A better fit to the data is found using a non-physical piecewise-affine landing to lift-off relationship, which distinguishes between cases that bounce in pure slip from those that undergo rolling. Nevertheless, even balls that undergo rolling are typically found to lift off slipping, having undergone spin reversal. >>

Stanisław W. Biber, Kristian M. Jones, et al. Measurements and linearized models for golf ball bounce. arXiv: 2302.02758v1 [physics.class-ph]. Jan 13, 2023. 


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Keywords: gst, bouncing, rolling,  slipping





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mercoledì 15 febbraio 2023

# gst: when a soliton juggles ('catches' and 'throws') droplets


<< Jugglers normally work with solid objects, but a research team has now demonstrated a system that juggles liquid drops. (AA)  have previously shown that liquid drops can bounce in place above the surface of the same liquid—or bounce while moving across the surface—if the container is continuously vibrated (..) In these past experiments, the surface was nearly flat, except for waves generated by the bouncing drop. In the new work by undergraduate student Camila Sandivari of the University of Chile and her colleagues, the vibrations cause the liquid surface to form a large standing wave that actively “catches” and “throws” the drop during each cycle of its oscillation. The trapping of the drop is similar in principle to other types of wave traps, such as laser-based optical tweezers, and the system could potentially lead to new types of traps for larger objects. >>

AA << placed water mixed with a dye and a surface-tension-reducing agent in a 20-cm-long, 2.6-cm-wide basin that supports an unusual type of surface wave when the basin is vibrated in a specific frequency range. In this wave, rather than a series of oscillating peaks and valleys, there is only a single standing wave peak, called a soliton. However, this peak doesn’t oscillate uniformly across the basin’s short dimension (the width). A peak appears at one of the long walls coincident with a valley at the opposite wall, and then the peak and the valley switch places moments later, keeping a relatively flat “node” line along the central long axis of the basin. >>

AA << used a pipette to place a few-millimeter-wide drop of the same fluid just above the oscillating soliton, close to one of the long walls, and found that drops could be juggled for up to 90 minutes. The team attributes this unusual stability in part to a property of the soliton: if the drop wanders off-center, the oscillating surface wave pulls it back toward its center, similar to the way the laser field in optical tweezers is able to stably hold a small particle at its center. >>

David Ehrenstein. Juggling Water Drops. Physics 16, 21. Feb 10, 2023. 
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/21

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Keywords: gst, solitons, drop, droplet, droploids, goccia


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venerdì 10 febbraio 2023

# gst: apropos of transitions, a perpetual dance between states of meta-stability and chaos (in brain).


<< Hello! Today: new research is shining a light on how our brains flit between states of stability and chaos, depending on what we’re doing. >>

<< Our brains exist in a state somewhere between stability and chaos as they help us make sense of the world, according to recordings of brain activity taken from volunteers over the course of a week. >>

<< As we go from reading a book to chatting with a friend, for example, our brains shift from one semi-stable state to another—but only after chaotically zipping through multiple other states in a pattern that looks completely random. >>

<< Understanding how our brains restore some degree of stability after chaos could help us work out how to treat disorders at either end of this spectrum. Too much chaos is probably what happens when a person has a seizure, whereas too much stability might leave a person comatose. >>

Jessica Hamzelou. Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. Rhiannon Williams. MIT Download. Feb 8, 2023.


<< The team (Avniel Ghuman, Maxwell Wang, et al.) found some surprising patterns in brain activity over the course of the week. Specific brain networks seemed to communicate with each other in what looked like a “dance,” with one region appearing to “listen” while the other “spoke,” say the researchers, who presented their findings at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego last year. >>

Jessica Hamzelou. MIT Tech Rev. Feb 7, 2023. 

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Keywords: gst, brain, transition, chaos, dance



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lunedì 6 febbraio 2023

# gst: multiphase transitions and existence of bistable modes; how morphoelastic donuts get their wrinkles

<< Many biological structures are toroidal, or donut shaped. These structures often contain intricate wrinkling patterns that change as the object grows or contracts. >>

<< The team found that toroidal structures with large holes typically develop surface wrinkles close to the hole, whereas ones with smaller holes tend to form them away from the hole. Additionally, soft structures often have localized dimples, while stiff ones have bidirectional stripes or a mixture of spiral and axisymmetric stripes. Lastly, moderate-stiffness structures are typically adorned with periodic hexagonal patterns or a combination of hexagonal and labyrinth-like patterns. (AA) also found that their theory can predict wrinkling patterns in some nontoroidal structures, suggesting that it could be applied to a diverse range of objects. >>

Ryan Wilkinson. How Nature’s Donuts Get Their Wrinkles. Physics 16, s5. Jan 25, 2023. 

T. Wang et al. Curvature-regulated multiphase patterns in tori. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 048201. Jan 25, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, morphogenesis, transitions, multiphase transitions, bistability, pattern formation, elastic deformation, mechanical deformation




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martedì 31 gennaio 2023

# gst: analogy between streamers in sinking spheroids, gyrotactic plumes and chemotactic collapse (when a plume structure blows up when a parm is above a threshold)

<< In a dilute suspension where sinking spheroids or motile gyrotactic microorganisms are modelled as orientable and negatively buoyant particles, (AA) have found analytical solutions to their steady distributions for a given parallel flow profile. The coupling between their distribution and the vertical flow is nonlinear, enabling the uniform base state to bifurcate into a structure reminiscent of the streamers in settling spheroid suspension and gyrotactic plume. This bifurcation depends on a single parameter that is proportional to the average number of particles on a horizontal cross section. In a three-dimensional axisymmetric system, the plume structure blows up when the parameter is above a threshold. (AA) discuss how this singularity is analogous to the chemotactic collapse of a Keller-Segel model, and the significance this analogy entails. >>

Lloyd Fung. Analogy between streamers in sinking spheroids, gyrotactic plumes and chemotactic collapse. arXiv: 2301.07164v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jan 17, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, analogy, spheroids, collapse, chemotactic collapse 


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lunedì 30 gennaio 2023

# gst: towards the characterization of lines, links, writhes and twists in a vortex.


<< Vorticity in turbulent flows is often organized into complex geometries that influence the dynamics. (AA) use a relatively novel approach to describe these geometries: that of obtaining segments of vortex lines embedded in the flow. This enables to quantify the geometric features of these objects. >>

<< Vortex lines differ widely in their behaviour but (AA) find some unifying features. The decay from high levels of vorticity is shown to happen over a short fraction of the vortex length. The local curvature is inversely related with the vorticity magnitude. Strong parts of vortex lines bundle together. >>

Saumav Kapoor, Rama Govindarajan, Siddhartha Mukherjee. Geometric characterization of vortex lines in turbulence. arXiv: 2301.06808v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jan 17, 2023.

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Keywords: gst, vortex, vortices, vortexes, vorticity



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