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The coupling-parameter method, whereby an extra particle is progressively coupled to the rest of the particles, is applied to the sticky-hard-sphere fluid to obtain its equation of state in the so-called chemical-potential route ($\mu$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-15 René D. Rohrmann , Andrés Santos

Calculating by analytical theory the deformation of finite-sized elastic bodies in response to internally applied forces is a challenge. Here, we derive explicit analytical expressions for the amplitudes of modes of surface deformation of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Lukas Fischer , Andreas M. Menzel

Discretized fluid solvers coupled to a Newtonian dynamics method are a popular tool to study suspension flow. As any simulation technique with finite resolution, the lattice Boltzmann method, when coupled to discrete particles using the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-30 Florian Janoschek , Jens Harting , Federico Toschi

We investigate the orientational properties of a homogeneous and inhomogeneous tetrahedral 4-patch fluid (Kern--Frenkel model). Using integral equations, either (i) HNC or (ii) a modified HNC scheme with simulation input, the full…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-07 Alessandro Simon , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Martin Oettel

In a previous work, we investigated a two-dimensional lattice-fluid model, displaying some waterlike thermodynamic anomalies. The model, defined on a triangular lattice, is now extended to aqueous solutions with apolar species. Water…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Buzano , E. De Stefanis , M. Pretti

Generalizing the mode-coupling theory for ideal liquid-glass transitions, equations of motion are derived for the correlation functions describing the glassy dynamics of a diatomic probe molecule immersed in a simple glass-forming system.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. -H. Chong , W. Gotze , A. P. Singh

Hard models for particle interactions have played a crucial role in the understanding of the structure of condensed matter. In particular, they help to explain the formation of oriented phases in liquids made of anisotropic molecules or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Luis Mederos , Enrique Velasco , Yuri Martinez-Raton

We introduce a new computationally efficient and accurate classical density-functional theory for water and apply it to hydration of hard spheres and inert gas atoms. We find good agreement with molecular dynamics simulations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-16 Sahak A. Petrosyan , David Roundy , Jean-Francois Briere , Tomas A. Arias

A general class of nonadditive sticky-hard-sphere binary mixtures, where small and large spheres represent the solvent and the solute, respectively, is introduced. The solute-solute and solvent-solvent interactions are of hard-sphere type,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Riccardo Fantoni , Achille Giacometti , Andrés Santos

As an approach to the motion of particles in an anisotropic liquid, we analytically study the Stokes drag of spherical particles in a nematic liquid crystal. The Stokes drag of spherical particles for a general anisotropic case is derived…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-07 M. V. Kozachok , B. I. Lev

In this work we examine thermodynamics of fluid with "molecules" represented by two fused hard spheres, decorated by the attractive square-well sites. Interactions between these sites are of short-range and cause association between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-24 M. Kastelic , Yu. V. Kalyuzhnyi , V. Vlachy

A fluid constituted of hard spherocylinders is studied using a density functional theory for non-spherical hard particles, which can be written as a function of weighted densities. This is based on an extended deconvolution of the Mayer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 René Wittmann , Klaus Mecke

We develop a purely hydrodynamic formalism to describe collisional, anisotropic instabilities in a relativistic plasma, that are usually described with kinetic theory tools. Our main motivation is the fact that coarse-grained models of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

We present a novel method to investigate the dynamics of a single semiflexible polymer, subject to anisotropic friction in a viscous fluid. In contrast to previous approaches, we do not rely on a discrete bead-rod model, but introduce a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Tobias Munk , Oskar Hallatschek , Chris H. Wiggins , Erwin Frey

The critical buckling characteristics of hydrostatically pressurized complete spherical shells filled with an elastic medium are demonstrated. A model based on small deflection thin shell theory, the equations of which are solved in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-14 Motohiro Sato , M. Ahmer Wadee , Kohtaroh Iiboshi , Takafumi Sekizawa , Hiroyuki Shima

We propose a density functional for anisotropic fluids of hard body particles. It interpolates between the well-established geometrically based Rosenfeld functional for hard spheres and the Onsager functional for elongated rods. We test the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Giorgio Cinacchi , Friederike Schmid

In this paper, we derive the closed form analytical solutions for the effective viscosity of the suspensions of solid spheres that take into account the size effects. This result is obtained using the solution for the effective shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Y. O. Solyaev , S. A. Lurie , N. A. Semenov

Dispersion of low-density rigid particles with complex geometries is ubiquitous in both natural and industrial environments. We show that while explicit methods for coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Newton's equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Uǧis Lācis , Kunihiko Taira , Shervin Bagheri

The structural properties of additive binary hard-sphere mixtures are addressed as a follow-up of a previous paper [S. Pieprzyk et al., Phys. Rev. E 101, 012117 (2020)]. The so-called rational-function approximation method and an approach…

Over the last few decades, classical density-functional theory (DFT) and its dynamic extensions (DDFTs) have become powerful tools in the study of colloidal fluids. Recently, previous DDFTs for spherically-symmetric particles have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-02 Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia , Benjamin D. Goddard , Serafim Kalliadasis