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Crystal lattice deformations can be described microscopically by explicitly accounting for the position of atoms or macroscopically by continuum elasticity. In this work, we report on the description of continuous elastic fields derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-25 Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt , Ken R. Elder

The phonon propagation dynamics in a phononic crystal waveguide, realized via a suspended one-dimensional membrane array with periodic air holes, is investigated as function of its geometry. The bandstructure of the phononic crystal can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Daiki Hatanaka , Amaury Dodel , Imran Mahboob , Koji Onomitsu , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

The paper describes a novel methodology of designing granular phononic crystals for acoustic wave manipulations. A discrete element method is utilized to model the dynamics of a pulse wave propagating through the densely packed assembly of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-22 Igor Ostanin , Hongyang Cheng , Vanessa Magnanimo

We introduce the concept of effective phononic crystals, which combine periodicity with varying isotropic material properties to force periodic coefficients in the elastic equations of motion in a non-Cartesian basis. Periodic coefficients…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ignacio Arretche , Kathryn H. Matlack

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

Based on static and dynamical density functional theory, a phase-field-crystal model is derived which involves both the translational density and the orientational degree of ordering as well as a local director field. The model exhibits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Hartmut Löwen

In the first part of this article we present some exact solutions for special hyperbolic-parabolic systems with sustained oscillations induced by the initial data, most notably the compressible Navier-Stokes system with non-monotone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Athanasios E. Tzavaras

A phase field model of a crystalline material at the mesoscale is introduced to develop the necessary theoretical framework to study plastic flow due to dislocation motion. We first obtain the elastic stress from the phase field free energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-07 Audun Skaugen , Luiza Angheluta , Jorge Viñals

The phase field crystal model allows the study of materials on atomic length and diffusive time scales. It accounts for elastic and plastic deformation in crystal lattices, including several processes such as growth, dislocation dynamics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-07 Marcello De Donno , Marco Salvalaglio

We apply a phase field approach for a general shape optimization problem of a stationary Navier-Stokes flow. To be precise we add a multiple of the Ginzburg--Landau energy as a regularization to the objective functional and relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht

A modified phase field crystal model in which the free energy may be minimised by an order parameter profile having isolated bumps is investigated. The phase diagram is calculated in one and two dimensions and we locate the regions where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-31 Mark J. Robbins , Andrew J. Archer , Uwe Thiele , Edgar Knobloch

We investigate bulk thermodynamic and microscopic structural properties of amorphous solids in the framework of the phase-field crystal (PFC) model. These are metastable states with a non-uniform density distribution having no long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Shaho Abdalla , Andrew J. Archer , László Gránásy , Gyula I. Tóth

Here, we review the basic concepts and applications of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) method, which is one of the latest simulation methodologies in materials science for problems, where atomic- and microscales are tightly coupled. The PFC…

Elasticity theory provides an accurate description of the long-wavelength vibrational dynamics of homogeneous crystalline solids, and with supplemental boundary conditions on the displacement field can also be applied to abrupt…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Corey W. Bettenhausen , Wade C. Bowie , Michael R. Geller

In this work, we introduce an effective model for both ideal and viscous fluid dynamics within the framework of kinetic field theory (KFT). The main application we have in mind is cosmic structure formation where gaseous components need to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-01 C. Viermann , J. T. Schneider , R. Lilow , F. Fabis , C. Littek , E. Kozlikin , M. Bartelmann

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We consider the low-energy effective field theory describing the infrared dynamics of non-dissipative fluids. We extend previous work to accommodate conserved charges, and we clarify the matching between field theory variables and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-23 Sergei Dubovsky , Lam Hui , Alberto Nicolis , Dam Thanh Son

The increasing demand for renewable energy and shortage of resources in today's world has been stimulating researchers to explore means for the extraction of energy from wasted heat sources. Thermoelectric materials can convert thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-06 Khemrith Bun Saurabh Pathak , Xu Wang

The vibrational properties of two-dimensional phononic crystals are studied with large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and finite element method calculation. The vibrational band structure derived from the molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-28 Ralf Meyer

We investigate the equilibrium properties of bcc-liquid interfaces modeled with a continuum phase-field crystal (PFC) approach [K. R. Elder and M. Grant, Phys. Rev. E 70, 051605 (2004)]. A multiscale analysis of the PFC model is carried out…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-An Wu , Alain Karma