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The asymptotic form of the energy density for a gas of particles surrounding a sphere of mass $M$ and radius $R$ is studied using Einstein's equations. It is shown that if the pressure of the gas $p$ varies linearly with the energy density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Achilles D. Speliotopoulos

Hard sphere systems in two dimensions are examined for arbitrary density. Simulation results are compared to the theoretical predictions for both the low and the high density limit, where the system is either disordered or ordered,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Luding

Kinetics of dislocations is studied by means of computer simulation during intensive plastic deformation. The dynamical effect in the form of soliton-like wave of sharply disrupted interparticle bonds is observed. Along with it, micropores…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Metlov

Discrete particle simulation, a combined approach of computational fluid dynamics and discrete methods such as DEM (Discrete Element Method), DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo), SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), PIC…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-20 Limin Wang , Bo Zhang , Xiaowei Wang , Wei Ge , Jinghai Li

The finite size effect of electron and nucleus is accounted for in the model of atom. Due to their hard sphere repulsion the energy of the 1s orbital decreases and the corrections amount up to 8% in Uranium. Several models for boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 R. Tsekov

Modern physics is now a regular course for non-physics majors who do not have to take the accompanying laboratory. This lack of an experimental component puts the engineering students at a disadvantage. A possible solution is the use of…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-11-26 Jorge A. López , Milijana Suskavcevic , Carlos Velasco

The connection between turbulence and solar-wind acceleration, long known in space physics, is further developed in this Letter by establishing a robust empirical law that relates the bulk-flow speed to the magnetohydrodynamic-scale…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rohit Chhiber , Yanwen Wang , Manuel E. Cuesta , Jiaming Wang , Sohom Roy

The influence of the pressure of a chemically inert carrier-gas on the nucleation rate is one of the biggest puzzles in the research of gas-liquid nucleation. Different experiments can show a positive effect, a negative effect, or no effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-13 Jan Wedekind , Antti-Pekka Hyvärinen , David Brus , David Reguera

The properties of a strongly interacting quark plasma are investigated by molecular dynamics method including non-abelian quark-quark potential. Our main goal is to study the thermalization process in this system. We find an interesting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Hartmann , Z. Donko , P. Levai , G. J. Kalman

Most hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy cluster formation carried out to date have tried to model the cosmic gas as an ideal, inviscid fluid, where only a small amount of (unwanted) numerical viscosity is present, arising from practical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to simulate the thermal properties of a model fluid containing nanoparticles (nanofluid). By modelling transient absorption experiments, we show that they provide a reliable determination of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Mihail Vladkov , J. -L. Barrat

Heating of trapped ion clouds by interactions with free electrons crossing the trapping potential was observed. A model describing such process was proposed and discussed. The presented approach predicts two effects: pushing and heating of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Łukasz Kłosowski , Mariusz Piwiński

High temperature expansion of the partition function for a particle on a segment of a line is found to show an example of the quantum system that thermodynamical functions do not approach the thermodynamical functions of its classical…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Demetrian

Thermodynamic quantities of the hard-sphere system in the steady state with a small heat flux are calculated within the continuous media approach. Analytical expressions for pressure, internal energy, and entropy are found in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-13 Y. A. Humenyuk

The growing interest in energy applications of molten salts is justified by several of their properties. Their possibilities of usage as a coolant, heat transfer fluid or heat storage substrate, require thermo-hydrodynamic refined…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Roberto Serrano-López , Jordi Fradera , Santiago Cuesta-López

This study examines the effects of an external gravitational field on highly rarefied gases in the transitional-flow regime near the free-molecular-flow regime. In our theoretical study, we rederive the classical kinetic theory for an ideal…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Satori Tsuzuki

Quantum mechanics is difficult to learn because it is counterintuitive, hard to visualize, mathematically challenging, and abstract. The Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project, known for its interactive computer simulations for…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-13 S. B. McKagan , K. K. Perkins , M. Dubson , C. Malley , S. Reid , R. LeMaster , C. E. Wieman

Many features of real granular fluids under rapid flow are exhibited as well by a system of smooth hard spheres with inelastic collisions. For such a system, it is tempting to apply standard methods of kinetic theory and hydrodynamics to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 James W. Dufty

The fluid - crystal equilibria of polydisperse mixtures of hard spheres have been studied by computer simulation of the solid phase and using an accurate equation of state for the fluid. A new scheme has been developed to evaluate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Almarza , E. Enciso

Extended gas haloes around galaxies are a ubiquitous prediction of galaxy formation scenarios. However, the density profiles of this hot halo gas is virtually unknown, although various profiles have been suggested on theoretical grounds. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steen H. Hansen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen