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A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability as functions of the wave vector, the dissipation, and the density. In contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vicente Garzo

We have used the density-functional theory to locate the freezing transitions and calculate the values of freezing parameters for a system of long elongated molecules which interact via the Gay-Berne pair potential. The pair correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj Mishra , Jokhan Ram , Yashwant Singh

We apply density functional theory to study the freezing of superfluid {$^{4}\rm{He}$}, charged bosons and charged fermions at zero temperature. We employ accurate Quantum Monte Carlo data for the linear response function in the uniform…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. N. Likos , Saverio Moroni , Gaetano Senatore

The kinetic theory description of a low density gas of hard spheres or disks, confined between two parallel plates separated a distance smaller than twice the diameter of the particles, is addressed starting from the Liouville equation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-06 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

Self-diffusion along the longitudinal coordinate in a channel of varying cross section is considered. The starting point is the two-dimensional Enskog-Boltzmann-Lorentz kinetic equation with appropriated boundary conditions. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We study structural relaxation of colloidal hard spheres undergoing Brownian motion using dynamical density functional theory. Contrary to the partial linearization route [Stopper {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 92}, 022151 (2015)] which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-16 Daniel Stopper , Roland Roth , Hendrik Hansen-Goos

Extensions to kinetic theory and hydrodynamic models are proposed that account for the existence of multi-particle contacts. In the presence of multi-particle contacts (involving elastic, reversible, potential contact energy), dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Luding , Alexander Goldshtein

Time-dependent density functional theory, proposed recently in the context of atomic diffusion and non-equilibrium processes in solids, is tested against Monte Carlo simulation. In order to assess the basic approximation of that theory, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Kessler , W. Dieterich , H. L. Frisch , J. F. Gouyet , P. Maass

A kinetic theory for moderately dense gases of inelastic and rough spherical molecules is developed from the Enskog equation where a macroscopic state is characterized by 29 scalar fields which correspond to the moments of the distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-02 Gilberto M. Kremer

The Enskog-like kinetic approach, recently introduced by us to study strongly inhomogeneous flu- ids, is reconsidered in order to improve the description of the transport coefficients. The approach is based on a separation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-01 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

The hydrodynamic conservation equations and constitutive relations for a binary granular mixture composed of smooth, nearly elastic, hard spheres with non-equipartition energies and different mean velocities are derived. This research is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-28 Yanpei Chen , Yifeng Mei , Wei Wang

We introduce a fundamental theory for the kinetics of systems of classical particles. The theory represents a unification of kinetic theory, Brownian motion and field theory. It is self-consistent and is the dynamic generalization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-14 Gene F. Mazenko

The Enskog kinetic theory of multicomponent granular suspensions employed previously [G\'omez Gonz\'alez, Khalil, and Garz\'o, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{101}, 012904 (2020)] is considered further to determine the four transport coefficients…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-02 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is performed to study the conditions for stability of a suspension of solid particles immersed in a viscous gas. The dissipation in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-28 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Using methods of kinetic theory and liquid state theory we propose a description of the non-equilibrium behavior of molecular fluids which takes into account their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties. The present work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-24 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We discuss the uniform shear flow of a fluidized granular bed composed of monodisperse Hertzian spheres. Considering high densities around the glass transition density of inelastic Hertzian spheres, we report kinetic theory expressions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-13 W. Till Kranz , Matthias Sperl

Hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture of inelastic hard spheres are derived from the Boltzmann kinetic theory. A normal solution is obtained via the Chapman-Enskog method for states near the local homogeneous cooling state. The mass,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Vicente Garzó , J. W. Dufty

In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Benjamin Graille , Thierry E. Magin , Marc Massot

We propose an alternative theory for the relaxation of density fluctuations in glass-forming fluids. We derive an equation of motion for the density correlation function which is local in time and is similar in spirit to the equation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-01 Grzegorz Szamel