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A multicomponent extension of our recent theory of simple fluids [ U.M.B. Marconi and S. Melchionna, Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014105 (2009) ] is proposed to describe miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures under inhomogeneous, non…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-11 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

Numerical simulations based on radial basis functions have been developed for systems with complex geometries and have been successfully applied across various fields, including seismology, coastal hydrodynamics, and biology. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh

In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision dynamics (MPC) or stochastic rotation dynamics (SRD).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gompper , T. Ihle , D. M. Kroll , R. G. Winkler

We present a thermodynamically consistent theoretical framework for lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs) based on the GENERIC (General Equation for the Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling) formalism. This formalism ensures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-03 Jonathan Salmerón-Hernández , Pablo Zubieta-Rico , Juan de Pablo

In an attempt to quantitatively characterize the recently observed slow dynamics in the isotropic and nematic phase of liquid crystals, we investigate the single-particle orientational dynamics of rodlike molecules across the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Biman Jana , Dwaipayan Chakrabarti , Biman Bagchi

We study a simplified inertial Ericksen-Leslie system for the nematic liquid crystal flow, which can be viewed as a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations and wave map equations. We prove the global existence of classical solution with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Yuan Cai , Wei Wang

We study the asymptotic behavior of global solutions to hydrodynamical systems modeling the nematic liquid crystal flows under kinematic transports for molecules of different shapes. The coupling system consists of Navier-Stokes equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Hao Wu , Xiang Xu , Chun Liu

Swimming in low-Reynolds-number fluids requires the breaking of time-reversal symmetry and centrosymmetry. Microswimmers, often with asymmetric shapes, exhibit nonreciprocal motions or exploit nonequilibrium processes to propel. The role of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-20 Sung-Jo Kim , Žiga Kos , Eujin Um , Joonwoo Jeong

The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Sarah A. Williams

We discuss the applicability of a unified hyperbolic model for continuum fluid and solid mechanics to modeling non-Newtonian flows and in particular to modeling the stress-driven solid-fluid transformations in flows of viscoplastic fluids,…

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

We study the kinetics of the nematic-isotropic transition in a two-dimensional liquid crystal by using a lattice Boltzmann scheme that couples the tensor order parameter and the flow consistently. Unlike in previous studies, we find the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Colin Denniston , Enzo Orlandini , J. M. Yeomans

Stochastic hydrodynamics provides a dynamical framework for the evolution of fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions, but poses significant challenges in numerical simulations. We present an algorithm for the simulation of non-relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Mattis Harhoff , Sören Schlichting , Lorenz von Smekal

Motivated by recent experiments, the isotropic-nematic phase transition in chromonic liquid crystals is studied. As temperature decreases, nematic nuclei nucleate, grow, and coalesce, giving rise to tactoid microstructures in an isotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-25 Chiqun Zhang , Amit Acharya , Noel J. Walkington , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

In this article we discuss nonstationary models for inhomogeneous liquid crystals driven out of equilibrium by flow. Emphasis is put on those models which are used in the mathematics as well as in the physics literature, the overall goal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-20 Etienne Emmrich , Sabine H. L. Klapp , Robert Lasarzik

We investigate the connections between some simple Maier-Saupe lattice models, with a discrete choice of orientations of the microscopic directors, and a recent proposal of a two-tensor formalism to describe the phase diagrams of nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 E. S. Nascimento , A. P. Vieira , S. R. Salinas

We propose a hybrid lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate the hydrodynamics of colloidal particles inside a liquid crystalline host. To validate our algorithm, we study the static and the microrheology of a colloid in a nematic, with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-11 J. S. Lintuvuori , D. Marenduzzo , K. Stratford , M. E. Cates

Multi-color Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (SRDmc) has been introduced by Inoue et al. as a particle based simulation method to study the flow of emulsion droplets in non-wetting microchannels. In this work, we extend the multi-color method…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-11 Thomas Hiller , Marta Sanchez de La Lama , Martin Brinkmann

We study the immersion of a ferromagnetic nanowire within a nematic liquid crystal using a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to solve the full three-dimensional equations of hydrodynamics. We present an algorithm for including a moving boundary,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Christopher J. Smith , Colin Denniston

There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the Eringen micropolar approach. Up to this day, these two descriptions have remained distinct in spite of several attempts to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-05 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu , Cesare Tronci