activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Coupled Rayleigh--Taylor and Faraday instabilities in vertically vibrated cylindrical containers

Tianyi Chu, Benjamin Wilfong, Timothy Koehler +2

Interfacial instabilities govern the mixing in confined multiphase flows. Yet, the two mechanisms that drive them are usually studied independently: the pressure-gradient-driven Ra…

cond-mat.soft2026

Limits of constant-parameter constitutive models for hydrogels under inertial cavitation

Tianyi Chu, Joseph Beckett, Zhiren Zhu +2

Mechanical characterization of soft materials at high strain rates is challenging due to their high compliance, nonlinear viscoelastic behavior, and potentially history-dependent r…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Energy dissipation mechanisms in an acoustically-driven slit

Haocheng Yu, Tianyi Chu, Spencer H. Bryngelson

We quantify how incident acoustic energy is converted into vortical motion and viscous dissipation for a two-dimensional plane-wave passing through a slit geometry. We perform dire…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Competing Mechanisms at Vibrated Interfaces of Density-Contrast Fluids

Tianyi Chu, Benjamin Wilfong, Timothy Koehler +2

Fluid--fluid interfacial instability and subsequent fluid mixing are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. The hydrodynamic instability of fluid interfaces has long centered on the…

physics.comp-ph2025

Accelerating Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design via Local Radial Basis Functions: Application to Soft Material Characterization

Tianyi Chu, Jonathan B. Estrada, Spencer H. Bryngelson

We develop a computational approach that significantly improves the efficiency of Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) using local radial basis functions (RBFs). The present…

cond-mat.soft2024

Bayesian optimal design accelerates discovery of material properties from bubble dynamics

Tianyi Chu, Jonathan B. Estrada, Spencer H. Bryngelson

An optimal sequential experimental design approach is developed to computationally characterize soft material properties at the high strain rates associated with bubble cavitation.…