English
Related papers

Related papers: A Master equation for force distributions in polyd…

200 papers

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

This paper shows how to evolve numerically the maximum entropy probability distributions for a given set of constraints, which is a variational calculus problem. An evolutionary algorithm can obtain approximations to some well-known…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-07 Raul Rojas

A Markov evolution of a system of point particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is described at micro-and mesoscopic levels. The particles reproduce themselves at distant points (dispersal) and die, independently and under the influence of each other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Yuri Kozitsky , Oleksandr Kutoviy

We create mechanically stable (MS) packings of bidisperse disks using an algorithm in which we successively grow or shrink soft repulsive disks followed by energy minimization until the overlaps are vanishingly small. We focus on small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guo-Jie Gao , Jerzy Blawzdziewicz , Corey S. O'Hern

The dynamic fragmentation of residually stressed solids involves a complex interplay between stored elastic energy, stress wave propagation, and crack instabilities. In this work, we investigate the fracture mechanics of chemically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Vineet Dawara , Koushik Viswanathan

The stochastic thermodynamics of a dilute, well-stirred mixture of chemically-reacting species is built on the stochastic trajectories of reaction events obtained from the Chemical Master Equation. However, when the molecular populations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Jordan M. Horowitz

An ensemble of classical subsystems interacting with surrounding particles has been considered. In general case, a phase volume of the subsystems ensemble was shown to be a function of time. The evolutional equations of the ensemble are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. R. Sharov

In this paper I show how the statistics of the gravitational field is changed when the system is characterized by a non-uniform distribution of particles. I show how the distribution functions W(dF/dt) giving the joint probability that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Del Popolo

We study the diffusion of tagged hard core interacting particles under the influence of an external force field. Using the Jepsen line we map this many particle problem onto a single particle one. We obtain general equations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Barkai , R. Silbey

The aggregation of particles in the free molecular regime is determined approximately for situations with a high degree of translational energy equilibration. The mean particle sizes develop linearly in time. Scaling relations are used to…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2024-01-10 Klavs Hansen

This article presents a new approach to the dynamics of a particle system, divided into two distinct microstates spreading out in a homogeneous medium. The particles belonging to the main microstate spread according to classical Fick's law…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-20 Luiz Bevilacqua , Maosheng Jiang

Stochasticity is a defining feature of the pairwise forces governing interactions in biological systems-from molecular motors to cell-cell adhesion-yet its consequences on large-scale dynamics remain poorly understood. Here, we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-27 Henry Alston , Raphael Voituriez , Thibault Bertrand

Fractional calculus, in allowing integrals and derivatives of any positive order (the term "fractional" kept only for historical reasons), can be considered a branch of mathematical physics which mainly deals with integro-differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Francesco Mainardi

Recent studies of two-dimensional poly-disperse disc systems revealed a coordinated self-organisation of cell stresses and shapes, with certain distributions collapsing onto a master form for many processes, size distributions, friction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Dominik Krengel , Haoran Jiang , Takashi Matsushima , Raphael Blumenfeld

A large number (~10,000) of uniform stainless steel balls comprising less than one layer coverage on a vertically shaken plate provides a rich system for the study of excited granular media. Viewed from above, the horizontal motion in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Urbach , J. S. Olafsen

We investigate systems of nature where the common physical processes diffusion and fragmentation compete. We derive a rate equation for the size distribution of fragments. The equation leads to a third order differential equation which we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg , Mogens H. Jensen , Joachim Mathiesen , Poul Olesen , Kim Sneppen

We present a theoretical framework and numerical methods for predicting the large-scale properties of solutions of partial differential equations that are too complex to be properly resolved. We assume that prior statistical information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Chorin , A. Kast , R. Kupferman

We investigate the distribution of relative velocities between small heavy particles of different sizes in turbulence by analysing a statistical model for bidisperse turbulent suspensions, containing particles with two different Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-20 J. Meibohm , L. Pistone , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

We investigate how the time evolution of different kinetic Ising models depends on the initial conditions of the dynamics. To this end we consider the simultaneous evolution of two identical systems subjected to the same thermal noise. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas Vojta

The influence on macroscopic work hardening of small, spherical, elastic particles dispersed within a matrix is studied using an isotropic strain gradient plasticity framework. An analytical solution, based on a recently developed yield…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-25 Philip Croné , Peter Gudmundson , Jonas Faleskog