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Ample experimental evidence has been accumulated demonstrating that the formation of monodispersed colloids proceeds through a more complex mechanism, than the generally excepted diffusional "burst nucleation" process. Instead, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-22 Jongsoon Park , Vladimir Privman , Egon Matijevic

We perform a mass constrained phase-field approximation for a model that describes the epitaxial growth of a two-dimensional thin film on a substrate in the context of linearised elasticity. The approximated model encodes a variable on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Gabriele Fissore

Cluster growth in a coagulating system of active particles (such as microswimmers in a solvent) is studied by theory and simulation. In contrast to passive systems, the net velocity of a cluster can have various scalings dependent on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-21 P. Cremer , H. Löwen

The self-diffusion of two-dimensional small Ag islands (containing up to $10$ atoms) on Ag(111) surface has been studied using and self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 354004 (2012)] simulations. A variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Syed Islamuddin Shah , Giridhar Nandipati , Talat S. Rahman

Proliferating cell collectives often develop an active growth layer near their boundary that regulates expansion and morphology, as observed in systems ranging from bacterial biofilms to epithelial tissues and tumor spheroids. While such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Fidel Álvarez-Murphy , Ignacio Medina , Néstor Sepúlveda , Gustavo Düring

The purpose of this paper is to report some new experimental and theoretical results about the analysis of in-plane lattice spacing oscillations during two-dimensional (2D) homo and hetero epitaxial growth. The physical origin of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Muller , P. turban , L. Lapena , S. Andrieu

A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Makiko Nonomura

The observed height distribution of clusters obtained in strained epitaxy has been often interpreted in terms of electronic effects. We show that some aspects can be explained classically by the interplay of strain and edge energies. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 J. E. Prieto , I. Markov

A strained epitaxial film deposited on a deformable substrate undergoes a morphological instability relaxing the elastic energy by surface diffusion. The nonlinear and nonlocal dynamical equations of such films with wetting interactions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-16 Jean-Noel Aqua , Thomas Frisch , Alberto Verga

Growth patterns generated by filamentous organisms (e.g. actinomycetes and fungi) involve spatial and temporal dynamics at different length scales. Several mathematical models have been proposed in the last thirty years to address these…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Michele Bezzi , Andrea Ciliberto

We establish rates of convergence of solutions to scaling (or similarity) profiles in a coagulation type system modelling submonolayer deposition. We prove that, although all memory of the initial condition is lost in the similarity limit,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Fernando P. da Costa , João T. Pinto , Rafael Sasportes

We studied phase separation in a particle interacting system under a large drive along x. We here identify the basic growth mechanisms, and demonstrate time self-similarity, finite-size scaling, as well as other interesting features of both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo I. Hurtado , J. Marro , E. V. Albano

We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess experimentally the existence of a superlinear scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marco De Paoli , Diego Perissutti , Cristian Marchioli , Alfredo Soldati

Very large-scale integration of devices in a circular pattern has several advantages over the commonly used rectangular grid layout. For the development of such integrated circuits on a 2D semiconductor platform, spontaneous growth of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Umakanta Patra , Subhabrata Dhar

Capillarity-driven self-assembly at fluidic interfaces offers a scalable route to large, reconfigurable materials. Microscale particles with high horizontal-to-vertical aspect ratios become attractive building blocks for shape-directed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-27 Sungwan Park , Justin Jeongwoo Choi , Albert Tianxiang Liu

Molecular beam epitaxy of Ge (111) thin films on epitaxial-Gd2O3/Si(111) substrates is reported, along with a systematic investigation of the evolution of Ge growth, and structural defects in the grown epilayer. While Ge growth begins in…

In the present study we are performing simulation of simple model of two patch colloidal particles undergoing irreversible diffusion limited cluster aggregation using patchy Brownian cluster dynamics. In addition to the irreversible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-26 Isha Malhotra , Sujin B. Babu

We employ a novel fluid-particle model to study the shearing behavior of granular soils under different saturation levels, ranging from the dry material via the capillary bridge regime to higher saturation levels with percolating clusters.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-17 Konstantin Melnikov , Falk K. Wittel , Hans J. Herrmann

A coarse-grained model of dense hard sphere colloids building on simple notions of particle mobility and spatial coherence is presented and shown to reproduce results of experiments and simulations for key quantities such as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-06 Nikolaj Becker , Paolo Sibani , Stefan Boettcher , Skanda Vivek

The transport of collisional particles in stochastic magnetic fields is studied using the decorrelation trajectory method. The nonlinear effect of stochastic generation of magnetic island by magnetic line trapping is considered together…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu , J. H. Misguich , R. Balescu