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We present a general and systematic theory of non-equilibrium dynamics of multi-component fluid membranes, in general, and membranes containing transmembrane proteins, in particular. Developed based on a minimal number of principles of…

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General properties of conservative hydrodynamic-type models are treated from positions of the canonical formalism adopted for liquid continuous media, with applications to the compressible Eulerian hydrodynamics, special- and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor P. Ruban

Granular media such as sand and sugar are ubiquitous in nature and industry but are less well understood than fluids or solids. We consider the behavior of rapid granular flows where the transfer of momenta by collisions dominates. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Harry L. Swinney , E. C. Rericha

Fluctuating hydrodynamics is used to describe the total energy fluctuations of a freely evolving gas of inelastic hard spheres near the threshold of the clustering instability. They are shown to be governed by vorticity fluctuations only,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Javier Brey , A. Dominguez , M. I. Garcia de Soria , P. Maynar

This note provides a comprehensive examination of the various approaches to formulating relativistic hydrodynamics, with a particular emphasis on the canonical approach. Relativistic hydrodynamics plays a crucial role in understanding the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-11 Luca Martinoia , Rajeev Singh

We investigate an undamped random phase-space dynamics in deterministic external force fields (conservative and magnetic ones). By employing the hydrodynamical formalism for those stochastic processes we analyze microscopic kinetic-type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Czopnik , P. Garbaczewski

A general theory of nucleation for colloids and macromolecules in solution is formulated within the context of fluctuating hydrodynamics. A formalism for the determination of nucleation pathways is developed and stochastic differential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-23 James F. Lutsko

In this note, we analyze the relationships that should govern the use of thermodynamics in fluid mechanics in a way that we believe is understandable to mathematicians. We also aim to better define the reasons why mechanics and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Henri Gouin

Generalized hydrodynamics (GHD) was proposed recently as a formulation of hydrodynamics for integrable systems, taking into account infinitely-many conservation laws. In this note we further develop the theory in various directions. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Benjamin Doyon , Takato Yoshimura

Invariance properties of a physical system govern its behavior: energy conservation in turbulence drives a wide distribution of energy among modes, as observed in geophysics, astrophysics and engineering. In hydrodynamic turbulence, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-03-16 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

How physical systems approach hydrodynamic behavior is governed by the decay of nonhydrodynamic modes. Here, we start from a relativistic kinetic theory that encodes relaxation mechanisms governed by different timescales thus sharing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We review several facets of the hydrodynamic description of the relativistic heavy ion collisions, starting from the historical motivation to the present understandings of the observed collective aspects of experimental data, especially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-04 Rafael Derradi de Souza , Tomoi Koide , Takeshi Kodama

In this paper we present a hydrodynamic approach to describe the motion of migrating bacteria as a special class of self-propelled systems. Analytical and numerical calculations has been performed to study the behavior of our model in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Zoltan Csahok , Andras Czirok

We consider general theoretical models of water and in particular the nature of the motions of the hydrogen nuclei. If the motion of hydrogen nuclei is classical, then the thermodynamic pressure equation of state for heavy water wherein the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-11 A. Widom , J. Swain , S. Sivasubramanian , D. Drosdoff , Y. N. Srivastava

The formulation of a universal theory for bulk viscosity and heat conduction represents a theoretical challenge for our understanding of relativistic fluid dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the multifluid variational approach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

Although the foundations of the hydrodynamical formulation of quantum mechanics were laid over 50 years ago, it has only been within the past few years that viable computational implementations have been developed. One approach to solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert E. Wyatt , Eric R. Bittner

We construct the canonical constitutive relations for a fluid description of a system with a spin current, valid in an arbitrary number of dimensions in the absence of parity breaking or time reversal breaking terms. Our study encompasses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 A. D. Gallegos , U. Gursoy , A. Yarom

Self-propulsion allows living systems to display unusual collective behavior. Unlike passive systems in thermal equilibrium, active matter systems are not constrained by conventional thermodynamic laws. A question arises however as to what…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-18 Sho C. Takatori , John F. Brady

We study the stochastic motion of an intruder in a dilute driven granular gas. All particles are coupled to a thermostat, representing the external energy source, which is the sum of random forces and a viscous drag. The dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-27 Alessandro Sarracino , Dario Villamaina , Giulio Costantini , Andrea Puglisi

General formulation of hydrodynamics describing transversally thermalized matter created at the early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is presented. Similarities and differences with the standard three-dimensionally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski