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This work describes a new 1D hybrid approach for modeling atmospheric pressure discharges featuring complex chemistry. In this approach electrons are described fully kinetically using Particle-In-Cell/Monte-Carlo (PIC/MCC) scheme, whereas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Denis Eremin , Torben Hemke , Thomas Mussenbrock

Mean-field integro-differential equations are studied in an abstract framework, through couplings of the corresponding stochastic processes. In the perturbative regime, the equation is proven to admit a unique equilibrium, toward which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Pierre Monmarché

Structure-based coarse graining of molecular systems offers a systematic route to reproduce the many-body potential of mean force. Unfortunately, common strategies are inherently limited by the molecular mechanics force field employed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-27 Tristan Bereau , Joseph F. Rudzinski

Binary fluid mixtures are examples of complex fluids whose microstructure and flow are strongly coupled. For pairs of simple fluids, the microstructure consists of droplets or bicontinuous demixed domains and the physics is controlled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-05 Michael E. Cates , Elsen Tjhung

Understanding the structure and dynamics of liquids is pivotal for the study of larger spatiotemporal processes, especially in glass-forming materials at low temperatures. Density scaling, observed in many molecular systems through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-29 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman , Jeppe C. Dyre , Ulf R. Pedersen

Volume-filling cross-diffusion equations for the components of a tissue structure are formally derived from mass conservation laws and force balances for the interphase pressures and viscous drag forces in a multiphase approach. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Ansgar Jüngel , Cordula Reisch , Sara Xhahysa

We consider in this paper a challenging problem of simulating fluid flows, in complex multiscale media possessing multi-continuum background. As an effort to handle this obstacle, model reduction is employed. In \cite{rh2}, homogenization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jun Sur Richard Park , Siu Wun Cheung , Tina Mai , Viet Ha Hoang

We present a continuum approach to model segregation of size-bidisperse granular materials in unsteady bounded heap flow as a prototype for modeling segregation in other time varying flows. In experiments, a periodically modulated feed rate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-02 Hongyi Xiao , Zhekai Deng , Julio M. Ottino , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Richard M. Lueptow

We develop a new multipoint stress mixed finite element method for linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry on simplicial grids. Motivated by the multipoint flux mixed finite element method for Darcy flow, the method utilizes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Ilona Ambartsumyan , Eldar Khattatov , Jan M. Nordbotten , Ivan Yotov

In this letter, we develop a framework to study the mechanical response of athermal amorphous solids via a coupling of mesoscale and microscopic models. Using measurements of coarse grained quantities from simulations of dense disordered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-07 Chen Liu , Suman Dutta , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Kirsten Martens

The large deviation principle is proved for a class of $L^2$-valued processes that arise from the coarse-graining of a random field. Coarse-grained processes of this kind form the basis of the analysis of local mean-field models in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Ellis , K. Haven , B. Turkington

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

Integration against a probability distribution given its unnormalized density is a central task in Bayesian inference and other fields. We introduce new methods for approximating such expectations with a small set of weighted samples --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Ayoub Belhadji , Daniel Sharp , Youssef M. Marzouk

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

Conventional approaches for simulating steady-state distributions of particles under diffusive and advective transport at high P\'eclet numbers involve solving the diffusion and advection equations in at least two dimensions. Here, we…

We develop multipoint stress mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity with weak stress symmetry on cuboid grids, which can be reduced to a symmetric and positive definite cell-centered system. The methods employ the lowest-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Ibrahim Yazici , Ivan Yotov

The effect of introducing a mass dependent diffusion rate ~ m^{-alpha} in a model of coagulation with single-particle break up is studied both analytically and numerically. The model with alpha=0 is known to undergo a nonequilibrium phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Rajesh , Dibyendu Das , Bulbul Chakraborty , Mustansir Barma

We introduce a mean-field framework for the study of systems of interacting particles sharing a conserved quantity. The work generalises and unites the existing fields of asset-exchange models, often applied to socio-economic systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-14 Dominic T Robson , Andreas CW Baas , Alessia Annibale

Macroscopic equations arising out of stochastic particle systems in detailed balance (called dissipative systems or gradient flows) have a natural variational structure, which can be derived from the large-deviation rate functional for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Robert I. A. Patterson , D. R. Michiel Renger , Upanshu Sharma

We introduce a continuum framework for the energetics of particle-size segregation in bidisperse granular flows. Building on continuum segregation equations and a recent segregation flux model, the proposed framework offers general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-17 Tomás Trewhela , Hugo N. Ulloa