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The dynamic properties of fluid, including density, surface tension, diffusivity and viscosity, are temperature-dependent and can significantly influence the flow dynamics of mesoscopic non-isothermal systems. To capture the correct…

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The description of a stellar system as a continuous fluid represents a convenient first approximation to stellar dynamics, and its derivation from the kinetic theory is standard. The challenge lies in providing adequate closure…

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We introduce a non-isothermal phase-field crystal model including heat flux and thermal expansion of the crystal lattice. The thermal compatibility condition, as well as a positive entropy-production property, is derived analytically and…

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We introduce a new mesoscopic model for nematic liquid crystals (LCs). We extend the particle-based stochastic rotation dynamics method, which reproduces the Navier-Stokes equation, to anisotropic fluids by including a simplified…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Kuang-Wu Lee , Marco G. Mazza

We study asymptotic behaviors of the higher-order spatial derivatives and the first-order time derivatives for the strong solution to nematic liquid crystal flows in the half-space $\mathbb{R}_+^3$. Furthermore, when the initial data lie in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Haokun Chen , Yong Wang

In this paper, we consider the Beris-Edwards system for incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The system under investigation consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity $\mathbf{u}$ coupled with an evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Yuning Liu , Hao Wu , Xiang Xu

We have studied the effect of nonzero bulk viscosity with peak near the lattice QCD predicted crossover temperature $T_{co}\sim 175 MeV$ on charged particle transverse momentum spectra and elliptic flow. The Israel-Stewart theory of 2nd…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Victor Roy , A. K. Chaudhuri

We study spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystal droplets within the framework of the long-wave approximation. A fourth order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation governing the free surface evolution is derived. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-19 Te-Sheng Lin , Lou Kondic , Uwe Thiele , Linda J. Cummings

We study a generalization of the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for an incompressible fluid where the deviatoric part of the Cauchy stress tensor is related to the symmetric part of the velocity gradient via a maximal monotone 2-graph that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Erika Maringová , Josef Žabenský

In an attempt to quantitatively characterize the recently observed slow dynamics in the isotropic and nematic phase of liquid crystals, we investigate the single-particle orientational dynamics of rodlike molecules across the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Biman Jana , Dwaipayan Chakrabarti , Biman Bagchi

We prove that there exists a weak solution to a system governing an unsteady flow of a viscoelastic fluid in three dimensions, for arbitrarily large time interval and data. The fluid is described by the incompressible Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Michal Bathory , Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek

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

In this paper, we study the thermo-elastodynamics of nonlinearly viscous solids in the Kelvin-Voigt rheology where both the elastic and the viscous stress tensors comply with the frame-indifference principle. The system features a force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 S. Almi , R. Badal , M. Friedrich , S. Schwarzacher

We discuss the applicability of a unified hyperbolic model for continuum fluid and solid mechanics to modeling non-Newtonian flows and in particular to modeling the stress-driven solid-fluid transformations in flows of viscoplastic fluids,…

There is a recent interest in studying odd elasticity in soft solids. Current focus has been on simple solids. However, many soft solids are structured and can exhibit nematic elasticity or viscoelasticity. Here we generalize the concept of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Zeyang Mou , Haijie Ren , Ding Xu , Igor S. Aranson , Rui Zhang

We discuss a dynamical theory for nematic liquid crystals describing the stage of evolution in which the hydrodynamic fluid motion has already equilibrated and the subsequent evolution proceeds via diffusive motion of the orientational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Ibrahim Fatkullin , Valeriy Slastikov

We construct a phase field model including hydrodynamics and elasticity in one-component systems. It can be used to investigate solid-liquid and liquid-liquid phase transitions. Upon first-order phase transition, a velocity field is induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Kyohei Takae , Akira Onuki

This paper addresses a nonstationary flow of heat-conductive incompressible Newtonian fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity coupled with linear heat transfer with advection and a viscous heat source term, under Navier/Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Luisa Consiglieri

Based on static and dynamical density functional theory, a phase-field-crystal model is derived which involves both the translational density and the orientational degree of ordering as well as a local director field. The model exhibits…

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