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20152026
most citedBistability in radiatively heated melt ponds

18 citations · 71 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

The prey-predator motion of the active droplets

Yibo Chen, Kai Leong Chong, Roberto Verziccoa +1

We present a generic solution for the relative motion of two diffusiophoretic prey-predator particles of arbitrary chemical activity Ai and radius Ri, where i = 1;2 refers to the p…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Transition from classical to ultimate melting

Edoardo Bellincioni, Kevin Zhong, Christopher J. Howland +4

Melting is omnipresent in nature and technology, with applications ranging from metallurgy, biology, food science, and latent thermal energy storage to oceanography, geophysics, an…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Transition to the ultimate regime of turbulent convection in stratified inclined duct flow

Rundong Zhou, Adrien Lefauve, Roberto Verzicco +1

The stratified inclined duct (SID) flow provides a canonical model for sustained, buoyancy-driven exchange between two reservoirs of different density, and emerges as a new paradig…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 18 cited

Bistability in radiatively heated melt ponds

Rui Yang, Christopher J. Howland, Hao-Ran Liu +2

Melting and solidification processes, intertwined with convective flows, play a fundamental role in geophysical contexts. One of these processes is the formation of melt ponds on g…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 2 cited

Solute mixing in porous media with dispersion and buoyancy

Marco De Paoli, Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam, Roberto Verzicco +1

We analyse the process of convective mixing in two-dimensional, homogeneous and isotropic porous media with dispersion. We considered a Rayleigh-Taylor instability in which the pre…

physics.flu-dyn2024

A front-tracking immersed-boundary framework for simulating Lagrangian melting problems

Kevin Zhong, Christopher J. Howland, Detlef Lohse +1

In so-called Lagrangian melting problems, a solid immersed in a fluid medium is free to rotate and translate in tandem with its phase-change from solid to liquid. Such configuratio…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 5 cited

Particle chirality does not matter in the large-scale features of strong turbulence

Giulia Piumini, Martin P. A. Assen, Detlef Lohse +1

We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a cubic domain to investigate the dynamics of heavy, chiral, finite-size inertial parti…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 10 cited

Turbulent mixed convection in vertical and horizontal channels

Christopher J. Howland, Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam, Roberto Verzicco +1

Turbulent shear flows driven by a combination of a pressure gradient and buoyancy forcing are investigated using direct numerical simulations. Specifically, we consider the setup o…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Scaling relations for heat and momentum transport in sheared Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam, Christopher J. Howland, Richard J. A. M. Stevens +3

We provide scaling relations for the Nusselt number and the friction coefficient in sheared Rayleigh-Bénard convection, i.e., in Rayleigh-Bénard flow with Couette or P…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 9 cited

Circular objects do not melt the slowest in water

Rui Yang, Thijs van den Ham, Roberto Verzicco +2

We report on the melting dynamics of ice suspended in fresh water and subject to natural convective flows. Using direct numerical simulations we investigate the melt rate of ellips…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Mass transport at gas-evolving electrodes

Farzan Sepahi, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse +1

Direct numerical simulations are utilised to investigate mass transfer processes at gas-evolving electrodes that experience successive formation and detachment of bubbles. The gas-…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 13 cited

Towards the understanding of convective dissolution in confined porous media: thin bead pack experiments, two-dimensional direct numerical simulations and physical models

Marco De Paoli, Christopher J. Howland, Roberto Verzicco +1

We consider the process of convective dissolution in homogeneous and isotropic porous media. The flow is unstable due to the presence of a solute that induces a density difference…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Shape effect on ice melting in flowing water

Rui Yang, Christopher J. Howland, Hao-Ran Liu +2

Iceberg melting is a critical factor for climate change, contributing to rising sea levels and climate change. However, the shape of an iceberg is an often neglected aspect of its…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 13 cited

Turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with stationary inner cylinder

Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse

A series of direct numerical simulations of Taylor-Couette (TC) flow, the flow between two coaxial cylinders, with the outer cylinder rotating and the inner one fixed, were perform…

physics.flu-dyn2015

The effect of velocity boundary conditions on the heat transfer and flow topology in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Erwin P. van der Poel, Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, Roberto Verzicco +1

The effect of various velocity boundary condition is studied in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Combinations of no-slip, stress-free and periodic boundary conditions ar…