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A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

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Phase-field models have proven indispensable for deciphering the microstructure complexities inherent in multicomponent systems. The confluence of varying phase molar volumes presents unique challenges. Understanding the impact of molar…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 Chengyin Wu , Yanzhou Ji

We present a novel picture of a non isothermal solidification process starting from a molecular level, where the microscopic origin of the basic mechanisms and of the instabilities characterizing the approach to equilibrium is rendered more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Conti , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi , A. Crisanti

A continuum model for the phase separation and coarsening, observed in electrostatically driven granular media, is formulated in terms of a Ginzburg-Landau equation subject to conservation of the total number of grains. In the regime of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 I. S. Aranson , B. Meerson , P. V. Sasorov , V. M. Vinokur

The non-equilibrium dynamics of mesoscale phase transitions are fundamentally shaped by thermal fluctuations, which not only seed instabilities but actively control kinetic pathways, including rare barrier-crossing events such as nucleation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Luning Sun , Van Hai Nguyen , Shusen Liu , John Klepeis , Fei Zhou

A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhihua Wang , Lijing Zhou , Wenqiang Zhang , Xiaorong Wang , Shuguang Li , Xuerui Mao

We investigate dendritic sidebranching during crystal growth in an undercooled melt by simulation of a phase-field model which incorporates thermal noise of microscopic origin. As a non-trivial quantitative test of this model, we first show…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Alain Karma , Wouter-Jan Rappel

Stochastic hydrodynamics is a central tool in the study of first order phase transitions at a fundamental level. Combined with sophisticated free energy models, e.g. as developed in classical Density Functional Theory, complex processes…

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Using a generalized order parameter gradient expansion within density functional theory, we derive a phase-field-crystal model for liquid crystals composed by apolar particles in three spatial dimensions. Both the translational density and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand

To acquire the ability to numerically study the rheology of particulate two-phase flows that lack scale separation, we present a general method to average or coarse-grain the equations of motion of a mixture of a continuous fluid of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-22 Thomas Pähtz , Yulan Chen , Rui Zhu , Katharina Tholen , Zhiguo He

Phase field models have been applied in recent years to grain boundaries in single-component systems. The models are based on the minimization of a free energy functional, which is constructed phenomenologically rather than being derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Gunnar Pruessner , A. P. Sutton

In this paper, we propose and analyze a first-order and a second-order time-stepping schemes for the anisotropic phase-field dendritic crystal growth model. The proposed schemes are based on an auxiliary variable approach for the Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Minghui Li , Mejdi Azaiez , Chuanju Xu

In this journal, we study the phase-field model of solidification for numerical simulation of dendritic crystal growth that occurs during the casting of metals and alloys based on the kobayashi [1] model. Qualitative relationships between…

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Soft condensed matter structures often challenge us with complex many-body phenomena governed by collective modes spanning wide spatial and temporal domains. In order to successfully tackle such problems mesoscopic coarse-grained (CG)…

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We introduce a biologically detailed, stochastic model of gene expression describing the multiple rate-limiting steps of transcription, nuclear pre-mRNA processing, nuclear mRNA export, cytoplasmic mRNA degradation and translation of mRNA…

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Incorporating atomistic and molecular information into models of cellular behaviour is challenging because of a vast separation of spatial and temporal scales between processes happening at the atomic and cellular levels. Multiscale or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Radek Erban

In this paper we report on 2D numerical simulations concerning linear and nonlinear evolution of surface-tension-driven instability in two-fluid systems heated from below using classical and phase-field models. In the phase-field formalism,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Rodica Borcia , Domnic Merkt , Michael Bestehorn

When a stable phase is adjacent to a metastable phase with a planar interface, the stable phase grows. We propose a stochastic lattice model describing the phase growth accompanying heat diffusion. The model is based on an energy-conserving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Mao Hiraizumi , Hiroki Ohta , Shin-ichi Sasa

We perform computer simulations of a Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation which has dynamical asymmetry between the two coexisting phases. The dynamical asymmetry is incorporated by considering a mobility function which is order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rajeev Ahluwalia

We study existence of solutions in the variational sense for a class of stochastic phase-field models describing moving boundary problems. The models consist of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with singular diffusion forced by a…

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