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We present a modification to our recently published SAFT-based classical density functional theory for water. We have recently developed and tested a functional for the averaged radial distribution function at contact of the hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric J. Krebs , Jeff B. Schulte , David Roundy

Ubiquitous van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a subtle yet crucial role in determining the precise atomic arrangements in solids, particularly in molecular crystals where these weak forces are the primary link between constituent…

We analyze the structure of the Fundamental Measure Theory for the free energy density functional of hard sphere mixtures. A comparative study of the different versions of the theory, and other density functional approaches, is done in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Cuesta , Yuri Martinez-Raton , Pedro Tarazona

We investigate the orientational properties of a homogeneous and inhomogeneous tetrahedral 4-patch fluid (Kern--Frenkel model). Using integral equations, either (i) HNC or (ii) a modified HNC scheme with simulation input, the full…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-07 Alessandro Simon , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Martin Oettel

We study structural and thermophysical properties of a one-dimensional classical fluid made of penetrable spheres interacting via an attractive square-well potential. Penetrability of the spheres is enforced by reducing from infinite to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-24 Riccardo Fantoni , Achille Giacometti , Alexandr Malijevský , Andrés Santos

We investigate and exploit consequences of the recent neural metadensity functional theory [Kampa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301 (2025), 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.107301] for describing the physics of inhomogeneous fluids. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Stefanie M. Kampa , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

The structure of the Baxter adhesive hard sphere fluid is examined using computer simulation. The radial distribution function (which exhibits unusual discontinuities due to the particle adhesion) and static structure factor are calculated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark A. Miller , Daan Frenkel

Interaction of particles of many systems can be effectively approximated by multiscale interaction potentials. Such potentials are widely used for investigation of colloidal systems and colloid-polymer mixtures, complex liquids (for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-13 Yu. D. Fomin , V. N. Ryzhov , E. N. Tsiok

Understanding how soft particles can fill the space is still an open question. Structures far from classical FCC or BCC phases are now commonly experimentally observed in many different systems. Models based on pair interaction between soft…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-10 Brigitte Pansu , Jean-François Sadoc

A recently derived method [R. D. Rohrmann and A. Santos, Phys. Rev. E. {\bf 76}, 051202 (2007)] to obtain the exact solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for a fluid of hard spheres in (odd) $d$ dimensions is used to investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-05 Rene D. Rohrmann , Miguel Robles , Mariano Lopez de Haro , Andres Santos

By using direct numerical simulations (DNS) at unprecedented resolution we study turbulence under rotation in the presence of simultaneous direct and inverse cascades. The accumulation of energy at large scale leads to the formation of…

We provide a consistent statistical-mechanical treatment for describing the thermodynamics and the structure of fluids embedded in the hyperbolic plane. In particular, we derive a generalization of the virial equation relating the bulk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-18 François Sausset , Gilles Tarjus , Pascal Viot

Predicting the asymmetric structure and dynamics of solvated hydroxide and hydronium in water has been a challenging task from ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). The difficulty mainly comes from a lack of accurate and efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Renxi Liu , Chunyi Zhang , Xinyuan Liang , Jianchuan Liu , Xifan Wu , Mohan Chen

This paper presents a novel particle method to compute strongly coupled incompressible fluid and rigid bodies. The method adopts a velocity-based formulation and utilizes the linear complementarity problem for the incompressibility…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-01 Shugo Miyamoto , Seiichi Koshizuka

It is shown that low Reynolds number fluid flows can cause suspended particles to respond as though they were in an equilibrium system with an effective potential. This general result follows naturally from the fact that different methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-19 Todd M. Squires

A monte carlo density functional theory is developed for chain molecules which both intra and intermolecularly associate. The approach can be applied over a range of chain lengths. The theory is validated for the case of an associating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-30 B. D. Marshall , A. J. Garcia-Cuellar , W. G. Chapman

In this brief review I will discuss criticality in strongly correlated fluids. Unlike simple fluids, molecules of which interact through short ranged isotropic potential, particles of strongly correlated fluids usually interact through long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yan Levin

We find that a system of particles interacting through a simple isotropic potential with a softened core is able to exhibit a rich phase behavior including: a liquid-liquid phase transition in the supercooled phase, as has been suggested…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Malescio , G. Pellicane

Bounded potentials are good models to represent the effective two-body interaction in some colloidal systems, such as dilute solutions of polymer chains in good solvents. The simplest bounded potential is that of penetrable spheres, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexandr Malijevsky , Andres Santos

We present an analytical calculation of the hydrodynamic interaction between two spherical particles near an elastic interface such as a cell membrane. The theory predicts the frequency dependent self- and pair-mobilities accounting for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Stephan Gekle