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Experimental study of extreme waves based on nonlinear Schrödinger equation under background of a random sea

Experimental study of extreme waves based on nonlinear Schrödinger equation under background of a random sea

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. The Peregrine breather (PB) solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is used to model ocean extreme waves in a water wave flume. Triangular spectral features of wave elevations are observed over …

Ring-bouncing induced by the head-on impact of two nanodroplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

Ring-bouncing induced by the head-on impact of two nanodroplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Efficient droplet shedding from surfaces is fundamentally interesting and important due to its promising potential in numerous applications, such as anti-erosion, anti-icing, and self-cleaning. In this…

Thermally driven dynamics of interacting droplet-pairs in micro-confined shear flow: Beyond the realm of droplet coalescence

Thermally driven dynamics of interacting droplet-pairs in micro-confined shear flow: Beyond the realm of droplet coalescence

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Pattern formation and dynamics of interacting droplets in confined passages are ubiquitous in a variety of natural, physical, and chemical processes and appears to be contrasting as compared to single …

Theory and simulations of linear and nonlinear two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor dynamics with variable acceleration

Theory and simulations of linear and nonlinear two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor dynamics with variable acceleration

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Interfacial Rayleigh–Taylor mixing is crucial to describing important natural and engineering processes, such as exploding supernovae, laser micromachining, hot spots in inertial confinement fusion, an…

Breakup-based preparation of ultra-thin solid-in-water-in-oil conformal droplets in a microchannel

Breakup-based preparation of ultra-thin solid-in-water-in-oil conformal droplets in a microchannel

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Droplets encapsulating solid microparticles with a thin coating layer have extensive applications in the fields of biochemical, advanced materials, and inertial confinement fusion. In this work, the dr…

Influence of surface nanostructures on the catalytic recombination of hyperthermal non-equilibrium flow

Influence of surface nanostructures on the catalytic recombination of hyperthermal non-equilibrium flow

Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. One of the key challenges for accurate prediction of hypersonic aerodynamic heating is the exothermic uncertainty due to the complex surface catalytic recombination effect, which is caused by the stron…