Physical Review Fluids

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Take a look at selected highlights from Physical Review Fluids in 2025, including research, awards, and community events. Thank you to all who contribute to advancing fluid dynamics!

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Refraction of water waves can be leveraged to trap and transport submerged structures: side motion perpendicular to the incoming waves is obtained by controlling the structure shape, and modifying the wave field allows objects to be held in place.

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In dense sprays, droplets evaporate more slowly than predicted for isolated droplets. Experiments with liquids of different volatilities show the delay comes from the coupling to the surrounding vapor field, controlling the spray boundary and evaporation.

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✨ Highlights from the May issue

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(2) https://t.co/ALMALJXRIe
(3) https://t.co/oLR8AABVVE
(4) https://t.co/v26WLC49R3

The full PRFluids issue from May is now available at https://t.co/KvURD3lwgk

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Microemulsion droplets can be atomized under laser irradiation. Experiments show fragmentation modes depend on heating intensity, bubble growth, and hydrodynamic instabilities, and provide insight into atomization processes relevant to cleaner combustion.

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Laser-engraved grooves on a plain acrylic plate stretch and pin a film of pure water for over 30 centimeters; at their end, the film breaks and drips, highlighting how stability comes from geometry, not chemistry.

Read the Editors' suggestion: https://t.co/TStHAhCvKd

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The orientation of nonspherical particles in turbulence determines the drag acting on them and their spatial distribution. A new symmetry-based framework yields a compact set of evolution equations with fewer degrees of freedom.

Editors’ suggestion: https://t.co/Z8DEuzXA14

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The onset of vortex nucleation in quantum fluids like Bose-Einstein condensates depends on obstacle geometry. Simulations and theory show flows around sharp corners undergo a time-irreversible transition, with a critical velocity below the speed of sound.

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🚨 Don't miss the upcoming PRFluids Journal Club!

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Read ahead the paper under discussion: https://t.co/X5pw1NOw0W

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📝 The PRFluids Journal Club returns! Join us for a discussion with Claudiu Stan, presenting a ray-tracing-based method for high-fidelity simulations of transparent objects.

🕒 May 21, 9 a.m. ET

Read ahead: https://t.co/X5pw1NOw0W

Free registration: https://t.co/VQdCDrjlOV

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Electrostatic charge affects aerosol deposition within the lungs: a multiscale in vitro one-path lung model shows that charge modifies deposition patterns and identifies where electrostatics start to dominate over traditional deposition mechanisms.

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Water surface features remain strongly correlated with subsurface turbulent flows, even at much higher Reynolds numbers than in simulations. Experiments show the correlations are near-instantaneous but spatially nonlocal, persisting well below the surface

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Deformable autophoretic filaments, otherwise immotile due to a uniform chemical profile, can self-propel via a buckling instability. Spontaneous shape changes break symmetry and enable motion, as shown by theory and simulations.

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Elastic turbulence in pressure-driven polymer flows is organized around spanwise-localized arrowhead traveling waves. These states appear in symmetric and asymmetric forms that can split and switch between localized and global dynamics.

Read the Letter: https://t.co/OHOP8pycLm

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We’re celebrating 10 years 🌊 🎉

Thank you to the authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who have helped advance a decade of #FluidDynamics research and discovery.

Explore the journal:
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Capillary breakup of a liquid bridge wetting a surface leads to electrostatic charging, slowing the dynamics and producing motion of satellite drops, highlighting the role of electrostatics in dewetting processes beyond sliding drops.

Editors' suggestion https://t.co/VR5mBvYrp0

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Simple geometric confinement can trigger pendant drop detachment at significantly lower volumes than predicted by Tate’s law by introducing an additional capillary force, providing a passive, robust route to drop size tuning.

Editors' suggestion: https://t.co/gCnSkmnkr0

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📝 The PRFluids Journal Club returns! Join us for a discussion with Claudiu Stan, presenting a ray-tracing-based method for high-fidelity simulations of transparent objects.

🕒 May 21, 9 a.m. ET

Read ahead: https://t.co/X5pw1NOw0W

Free registration: https://t.co/VQdCDrjlOV

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In superfluid turbulence, quantized vortices drive small-scale flows not resolved by standard models. A new formulation captures these interactions across scales, enabling consistent coupling of vortices to the turbulent normal fluid.

https://t.co/X3rslvqFBj

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In the third video of the #PRF10 Author Reflections series, Zixuan Yang revisits his 2024 PRFluids paper, discussing its potential to help predict hurricanes and reflecting on his experience as a presenter in the Physical Review Journal Club.

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A theoretical estimate of electro-vortex flow velocity accounts for the current collector size. Based on an inertia-Lorentz balance, it agrees with simulations, which reveal distinct flow features at high current collector radii.

https://t.co/cUPZ2QDbOv

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Freeze-thaw cycles of oil-in-water emulsions show hysteresis: experiments reveal that solid particles drift after one cycle, while deformable oil droplets return to their initial position with reversible shape changes, consistent with theory.

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