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Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) is a cost-effective technique able to produce ordered nanopatterns on the surfaces of different materials. To date, most theoretical studies of this process have focused on systems which become amorphous under…

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A simple manner to describe the diffusive relaxation of a colloidal fluid adsorbed in a porous medium is to model the porous medium as a set of spherical particles fixed in space at random positions with prescribed statistical structural…

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Phase field crystal (PFC) models constitute a field theoretical approach to solidification, melting and related phenomena at atomic length and diffusive time scales. One of the advantages of these models is that they naturally contain…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Heinonen , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , S. Buyukdagli , T. Ala-Nissila

Stepped GaN(0001) surface is studied by the kinetic Monte Carlo method and compared with the model based on Burton-Carbera-Frank equations. Successive stages of surface pattern evolution during high temperature sublimation process are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 M. A. Zaluska-Kotur , F. Krzyzewski , S. Krukowski

We present a robust and accurate numerical method for the anisotropic diffusion equation in curvilinear coordinates. This study extends the recent work [Muir et al., Computer Physics Communications, 2025] for solving the anisotropic…

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We present a complete formulation of second-order (2+1)-dimensional anisotropic hydrodynamics. The resulting framework generalizes leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics by allowing for deviations of the one-particle distribution function…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-26 Dennis Bazow , Ulrich W. Heinz , Michael Strickland

Densely packed systems of thermal particles in curved geometries are frequently encountered in biological and microfluidic systems. In 2D systems, at sufficiently high surface coverage, diffusive motion is widely known to be strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-22 Remy Kusters , Stefan Paquay , Cornelis Storm

It is shown using the method of molecular dynamics that the motion of carbon nanoparticles (rectangular graphene flakes, spherical fullerenes of size $L<10$ nm) on the surface of a thermalized graphene sheet lying on a flat substrate can be…

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The behavior of a surface energy $\mathcal F(E,u)$, where $E$ is a set of finite perimeter and $u\in L^1(\partial^* E, \mathbb R_+)$ is studied. These energies have been recently considered in the context of materials science to derive a…

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Cells and organisms follow aligned structures in their environment, a process that can generate persistent migration paths. Kinetic transport equations are a popular modelling tool for describing biological movements at the mesoscopic…

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We formulate a stochastic equation to model the erosion of a surface with fixed inclination. Because the inclination imposes a preferred direction for material transport, the problem is intrinsically anisotropic. At zeroth order, the…

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Experiments have shown that self-propelled particles can slide along the surface of a circular obstacle without becoming trapped over long times. Using simulations and theory, we study the impact of boundary conditions on the diffusive…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Theresa Jakuszeit , Ottavio A. Croze , Samuel Bell

In order to study the unstable step motion on vicinal crystal surfaces we devise vicinal Cellular Automata. Each cell from the colony has value equal to its height in the vicinal, initially the steps are regularly distributed. Another array…

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The diffusive transport of particles in anisotropic media is a fundamental phenomenon in computational, medical and biological disciplines. While deterministic models (partial differential equations) of such processes are well established,…

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From the exact single step evolution equation of the two-point correlation function of a particle distribution subjected to a stochastic displacement field $\bu(\bx)$, we derive different dynamical regimes when $\bu(\bx)$ is iterated to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Andrea Gabrielli , Fabio Cecconi

We use a three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model to investigate the spreading of mesoscale droplets on homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces. On a homogeneous substrate the base radius of the droplet grows with time as $t^{0.28}$ for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dupuis , A. J. Briant , C. M. Pooley , J. M. Yeomans

We derive the equations of motion for a system undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal and azimuthally-symmetric transverse "Gubser flow" using leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics. This is accomplished by assuming that the one-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-05 Mohammad Nopoush , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland

Recently, clustering of inertial particles in turbulence has been thoroughly analyzed for statistically homogeneous isotropic flows. Phenomenologically, spatial homogeneity of particles configurations is broken by the advection of a range…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Gualtieri , F. Picano , C. M. Casciola