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There are several methods to improve cancer patient survival rates by inducing hyperthermia in tumor tissues, which involves raising their temperature above 41{\deg}C. These methods utilize different energy sources to deliver heat to the…
Soft elastic composite materials containing particulate rigid inclusions in a soft elastic matrix are candidates for developing soft actuators or tunable damping devices. The possibility to reversibly drive the rigid inclusions within such…
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A challenging and fundamental research problem is the better understanding and control of the turbulent transport of heat in present-day tokamak fusion experiments. Recent developments in numerical methods along with enormous gains in…
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We report the development of a monolithic, mechanically tunable waveguide platform based on the flexible polymer polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS). Such devices preserve single mode guiding across a wide range of linear geometric distortions.…
We present TTCF4LAMMPS, a toolkit for performing non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations to study fluid behaviour at low shear rates using the LAMMPS software. By combining direct NEMD simulations and the transient-time…
Decades of hardware, methodological, and algorithmic development have propelled molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to the forefront of materials-modeling techniques, bridging the gap between electronic-structure theory and continuum…
We present results from a fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) in a 2D cylindrically symmetric geometry. The particle-in-cell model assumes an electrostatic approximation and includes…
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An independent control of the flux and energy of ions impacting on an object immersed in a plasma is often desirable for many industrial processes such as microelectronics manufacturing. We demonstrate that a simultaneous control of these…