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The phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion in temperature-stratified turbulence causing a non-diffusive turbulent flux of inertial and non-inertial particles in the direction of the turbulent heat flux is found using direct numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 N. E. L. Haugen , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , A. Brandenburg

The non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two-dimensional gas of inelastic hard spheres is presented. The dynamics of the particles includes an effective mechanism to transfer the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar , V. Buzón

Discrete element method simulations of confined bidisperse granular shear flows elucidate the balance between diffusion and segregation that can lead to either mixed or segregated states, depending on confining pressure. Results indicate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-24 Alexander M. Fry , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

It has been recently reported that a granular mixture in which grains differ in their restitution coefficients presents segregation: the more inelastic particles sink to the bottom. When other segregation mechanisms as buoyancy and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-23 Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

A low density binary mixture of granular gases is considered within the Boltzmann kinetic theory. One component, the intruders, is taken to be dilute with respect to the other, and thermal segregation of the two species is described for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-06 J. Javier Brey , Nagi Khalil , James W. Dufty

We consider a binary fluid mixture, which lies in the one-phase region near the demixing critical point, and study its transport through a capillary tube linking two large reservoirs. We assume that short-range interactions cause…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-21 Youhei Fujitani , Shunsuke Yabunaka

This work derives the Navier--Stokes hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined, quasi-two-dimensional, $s$-component mixture of inelastic, smooth, hard spheres. Using the inelastic version of the revised Enskog theory, macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

An isolated mixture of smooth, inelastic hard spheres supports a homogeneous cooling state with different kinetic temperatures for each species. This phenomenon is explored here by molecular dynamics simulation of a two component fluid,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven R. Dahl , Christine M. Hrenya , Vicente Garzo , James W. Dufty

Demixing of binary fluids subjected to slow temperature ramps shows repeated waves of nucleation which arise as a consequence of the competition between generation of supersaturation by the temperature ramp and relaxation of supersaturation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Izabella J. Benczik , Jürgen Vollmer

In this paper, we discuss dissipation process of the binary mixture gas in the thermally relativistic flow \textcolor{red}{by focusing on the characteristics of the diffusion flux}. As an analytical object, we consider the relativistic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ryosuke Yano

The solution of the Enskog equation for the one-body velocity distribution of a moderately dense, arbitrary mixture of inelastic hard spheres undergoing planar shear flow is described. A generalization of the Grad moment method, implemented…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 James F. Lutsko

Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the diffusion behavior of penetrable-sphere model fluids characterized by a finite energy barrier $\epsilon$. The self-diffusion coefficient is evaluated from the time-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Soong-Hyuck Suh , Chun-Ho Kim , Soon-Chul Kim , Andrés Santos

We study segregation of an impurity in a driven granular fluid under two types of \emph{steady} states. In the first state, the granular gas is driven by a stochastic volume force field with a Fourier-type profile while in the second state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-05 Francisco Vega Reyes , Vicente Garzó

We study segregation patterns in a hard sphere binary model under gravity subject to sequences of taps. We discuss the appearance of the ``Brazil nut'' effect (where large particles move up) and the ``reverse Brazil nut'' effects in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Nicodemi , Annalisa Fierro , Antonio Coniglio

The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garz\'o, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-07 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

This paper investigates the influence of filling fraction on segregation patterns of binary granular mixtures in a vertically vibrating drum through experiments and simulations. Glass and stainless steel spherical grains, which differ in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-15 Anghao Li , Zaizheng Wang , Haoyu Shi , Min Sun , Decai Huang

The homogeneous steady state of a fluid of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a bath of elastic hard spheres kept at equilibrium is analyzed by means of the first Sonine approximation to the (spatially homogeneous) Enskog--Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andres Santos

Inspired by the theoretical prediction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3423 (2001)] and the disputed experimental results [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 189601(2002), Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014302 (2003)], we systematically investigate the pattern of binary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-25 Yahya Sandali , Cheng Xu , Ning Zheng , Gang Sun , Qingfan Shi

To determine the electron heat flux density on macroscopic scales, the most widely used approach is to solve a diffusion equation through a multi-group technique. This method is however restricted to transport induced by temperature…

We consider the demixing of a binary fluid mixture, under gravity, which is steadily driven into a two phase region by slowly ramping the temperature. We assume, as a first approximation, that the system remains spatially isothermal, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Cates , J. Vollmer , A. Wagner , D. Vollmer