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Evidence for capillary waves at a liquid/vapor interface are presented from extensive molecular dynamics simulations of a system containing up to 1.24 million Lennard-Jones particles. Careful measurements show that the total interfacial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott W. Sides , Gary S. Grest , Martin-D. Lacasse

We consider two-layers of immiscible liquids confined between an upper and a lower rigid plate. The dynamics of the free liquid-liquid interface is described for arbitrary amplitudes by a single evolution equation derived from the basic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Merkt , A. Pototsky , M. Bestehorn , U. Thiele

In this supplementary paper we present some details on the solid-liquid interface detection, the deduction of the non-equilibrium free energy, the analysis of the granular temperature and energy per mode, a validation of the small slope…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-10 Li-Hua Luu , Gustavo Castillo , Nicolás Mujica , Rodrigo Soto

A problem on propagation of waves in deformable shells with flowing liquid is very urgent in connection with wide use of liquid transportation systems in living organisms and technology. It is necessary to consider shell motion equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 V. Yu. Babanly

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

We consider singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equations on one-dimensional networks (metric graphs) as well as the transport problems arising in the vanishing diffusion limit. Suitable coupling condition at inner vertices are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

In this note, we revisit the problem of the pressure-driven transport of a meniscus through a narrow cylindrical capillary or pore. This generic process finds many applications in science and technology. As it is known that Direct Numerical…

Attempts to extend the capillary-wave theory of fluid interfacial fluctuations to microscopic wavelengths, by introducing an effective wave-vector ($q$) dependent surface tension $\sigma_\text{eff}(q)$, have encountered difficulties. There…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-12 A. O. Parry , C. Rascón , R. Evans

We revise the format proposed by Bowen in [R.~M. Bowen. Int. J. Eng. Sci., 18(9):1129--1148, 1980.] to describe incompressible porous media by use of the theory of mixtures. We then show that this format is equivalent the those proposed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-27 Giuseppe Tomassetti

The capillary instability of liquid crystalline (LC) jets is considered in the framework of linear hydrodynamics of uniaxial nematic LC. The free boundary conditions of the problem are formulated in terms of mean surface curvature ${\cal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid G. Fel , Yoram Zimmels

We introduce several new models whose common feature is to take into account effects from topological vorticity. The macroscopic unknown is driven by a dissipative anomalous diffusion (of SQG-type) and is coupled with the orientation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Fanghua Lin , Yannick Sire , Yantao Wu , Yifu Zhou

For capillary driven flow the interface curvature is essential in the modelling of surface tension via the imposition of the Young--Laplace jump condition. We show that traditional geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods, that are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

If a droplet is placed on a substrate with a conical shape it spontaneously starts to spread in the direction of a growing fibre radius. We describe this capillary spreading dynamics by developing a lubrication approximation on a cone and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-13 Tak Shing Chan , Fan Yang , Andreas Carlson

In this article, we first introduce a Gauss curvature type flow for capillary hypersurfaces, which we call capillary Gauss curvature flow. We then show that the flow will shrink to a point in finite time. This is a capillary counterpart (or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Xinqun Mei , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

We study the capacity of active matter to rise in thin tubes against gravity and other related phenomena, like, wetting of vertical plates and spontaneous imbibition, where a wetting liquid is drawn into a porous medium. This capillary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-05 Adam Wysocki , Heiko Rieger

The capillary flow of a Newtonian and incompressible fluid in an axially symmetric horizontal tube with a non-slowly-varying cross section and a boundary slip is considered theoretically under the assumption that the Reynolds number is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-07 Masao Iwamatsu

We study theoretically the self-propulsion dynamics of a small droplet on general curved surfaces by a variational approach. A new reduced model is derived based on careful computations for the capillary energy and the viscous dissipation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yujuan Chen , Xianmin Xu

Hysteresis in the relation between the capillary pressure and the moisture content in unsaturated porous media, which is due to surface tension at the liquid-gas interface, exhibits strong degeneracy in the resulting mass balance equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Chiara Gavioli , Pavel Krejčí

Microfluidic devices offer unique opportunities to directly observe multiphase flow in porous media. However, as a direct representation of flow in geological pore networks, conventional microfluidics face several challenges. One is that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 S. J. Cox , A. Davarpanah , W. R. Rossen

The aim of the paper is to construct and justify asymptotic approximations for solutions to quasilinear convection-diffusion problems with a predominance of nonlinear convective flow in a thin cylinder, where an inhomogeneous nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Taras Mel'nyk , Christian Rohde