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We present a dynamic van der Waals theory. It is useful to study phase separation when the temperature varies in space. We show that if heat flow is applied to liquid suspending a gas droplet at zero gravity, a convective flow occurs such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Akira Onuki

Simple classical thermodynamic approach to the general description of metastable states is presented. It makes possible to calculate the explicit dependence of the Gibbs free energy on temperature, to calculate the heat capacity, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Kornyushin

In this paper, a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model is proposed to describe the mass transport and reaction processes of multiple species in a fluid. A key feature of this model is that reactions between different species occur…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Zhaoyang Wang , Huaxiong Huang , Ping Lin , Shixin Xu

The role of metastable liquid phases in vapor-crystal nucleation is studied using Density Functional Theory(DFT). The model gives a semi-quantitatively accurate description of both the vapor-liquid-solid phase diagram for both simple fluids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 James F. Lutsko

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

We present experimental evidence for a first-order freezing/melting phase transition in a nonequilibrium system -- an oscillated two-dimensional isobaric granular fluid. The steady-state transition occurs between a gas and a crystal and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Shattuck

In this paper, we modify the VDW equation of state by adding a temperature factor to it. As a result, we give out a good phase diagram and the correlation of the reduced pressure and the reduced temperature when a balanced liquid-gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianxiang Tian , Yuanxing Gui

We investigate the well-posedness of the periodic boundary value problem for the steady compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes system under the van der Waals equation of state. The main difficulty arises from the non-monotonicity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Yazhou Chen , Qiaolin He , Dongjuan Niu , Yi Peng , Xiaoding Shi

In the present study we investigate analytically the process of velocity and energy relaxation in two-phase flows. We begin our exposition by considering the so-called six equations two-phase model [Ishii1975, Rovarch2006]. This model…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Yannick Meyapin , Denys Dutykh , Marguerite Gisclon

We propose a novel approach to the solution of nematic Liquid Crystal models based on the derivation of a system of nonlinear wave equations for order parameters such that the occurrence of uniaxial and biaxial phase transitions can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-21 Francesco Giglio , Giovanni De Matteis , Antonio Moro

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) devices, which leverage the constant-temperature thermal capacity of the latent heat of a Phase Change Material (PCM), provide benefits to a variety of thermal management systems by decoupling the absorption and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Trent J. Sakakini , Justin P. Koeln

In a physical system, changing parameters such as temperature can induce a phase transition: an abrupt change from one state of matter to another. Analogous phenomena have recently been observed in large language models. Typically, the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Julian Arnold , Flemming Holtorf , Frank Schäfer , Niels Lörch

A relativistic mean-field model of nuclear matter with arbitrary proton fraction is studied at finite temperature. An analysis is performed of the liquid-gas phase transition in a system with two conserved charges (baryon number and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Horst Mueller , Brian D. Serot

In this letter we present a dynamical study of the structure of metastable states (corresponding to TAP solutions) in a mean-field spin-glass model. After reviewing known results of the statical approach, we use dynamics: starting from an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Barrat , R. Burioni , M. Mézard

The generalized van der Waals equation of state for anisotropic liquids in porous media consists of two terms.One of them is based on the equation of state for hard spherocylinders in random porous media obtained from the scaled particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 Myroslav Holovko , Volodymyr Shmotolokha

A phase transition indicates a sudden change in the properties of a large system. For temperature-driven phase transitions this is related to non-analytic behavior of the free energy density at the critical temperature: The knowledge of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Markus Heyl , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Stefan Kehrein

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a driven-dissipative spin ensemble with competing power-law interactions. We demonstrate that dynamical phase transitions as well as bistabilities can emerge for asymptotic van der Waals…

We consider the rate of transition for a particle between two metastable states coupled to a thermal environment for various magnitudes of the coupling strength, using the recently proposed infrequent metadynamics approach (Tiwary and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 Pratyush Tiwary , B. J. Berne

This work expands on our recently introduced low Mach enthalpy method [1] for simulating the melting and solidification of a phase change material (PCM) alongside (or without) an ambient gas phase. The method captures PCM's volume change…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-11 Ramakrishnan Thirumalaisamy , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

Quantum van der Pol oscillators are driven-dissipative systems displaying quantum synchronization phenomena. When forced by a squeezed drive, the frequency adjusts to half of the forcing displaying multiple preferred phases. Here we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Albert Cabot , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini