Sewage water pumps very often are equipped with impellers featuring a small number of blades which therefore provide big cross sections of the flow channel. Single-blade impellers comprise the smallest possible number of blades and are known as non-clogging pumps. But severe disadvantages occur during operation, because the timevariant flow in such pumps results in periodic unsteady flow forces...

The thermodynamics of a simple model, containing the minimum set of features required to provide liquid crystal-like phase behavior and the dipolar coupling observable in the NMR spectrum of orientationally ordered fluids, are presented within the framework of Onsager theory. The model comprises a fluid of hard spherocylinders with a pair of embedded freely rotating magnetic dipoles. The behavi...

We address the numerical simulation of fluid-structure systems involving an incompressible viscous fluid. This issue is particularly difficult to face when the fluid added-mass acting on the structure is strong, as it happens in hemodynamics for example. Indeed, several works have shown that, in such situations, implicit coupling seems to be necessary in order to avoid numerical instabilities. ...

Partons produced in the early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions can develop a longitudinal fluid shear because of unequal local number densities of participant target and projectile nucleons. Under such fluid shear, local parton pairs with non-vanishing impact parameter have finite local relative orbital angular momentum along the direction opposite to the reaction plane. Such finite re...

In recent years, quasi-Newton schemes have proven to be a robust and efficient way for the coupling of partitioned multi-physics simulations in particular for fluid-structure interaction. The focus of this work is put on the coupling of partitioned fluid-structure interaction, where minimal interface requirements are assumed for the respective field solvers, thus treated as black box solvers. T...

Granular materials are often encountered in nature, but the effect of their morphological properties is poorly understood when they accompanied by fluid. This set complexity brings inertial, viscous, frictional, and elastic forces together whose connections remain debated. We report a novel coupled framework to study particle morphology on dynamics granular particles. The mechanical behavior mo...

We investigate problems of fluid structure interaction type and aim for a formulation that leads to a well posed problem and a stable numerical procedure. Our first objective is to investigate if the generally accepted formulations of the fluid structure interaction problem are the only possible ones. Our second objective is to derive a stable numerical coupling. To accomplish that we will use ...