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A temporal complex network-based approach is proposed as a novel formulation to investigate turbulent mixing from a Lagrangian viewpoint. By exploiting a spatial proximity criterion, the dynamics of a set of fluid particles is geometrized…

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We investigate the laminar flow of two-fluid mixtures inside a simple network of inter-connected tubes. The fluid system is comprised of two miscible Newtonian fluids of different viscosity which do not mix and remain as nearly distinct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-05 Brian D. Storey , Deborah V. Hellen , Nathaniel J. Karst , John B. Geddes

Phase separation within polymer networks plays a central role in shaping the structure and mechanics of both synthetic materials and living cells, including the formation of biomolecular condensates within cytoskeletal networks. Previous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Takahiro Yokoyama , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker , Arash Nikoubashman

Hard spheres in Newtonian fluids serve as paradigms for Non-Newtonian materials phenomena exhibited by colloidal suspensions. A recent experimental study (Cheng et al. 2011 Science, 333, 1276) showed that upon application of shear to such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-07 Xinliang Xu , Stuart A Rice , Aaron R Dinner

We introduce SAFT-P, a plaquette-level extension of Statistical Associating Fluid Theory for patchy particles. By treating local clusters as associating superparticles and contracting their free energy back to monomer densities, SAFT-P…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Hamza Coban , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

We propose a new Monte Carlo scheme to study the late-time dynamics of a 2-dim hard sphere fluid, modeled by a tethered network of hard spheres. Fluidity is simulated by breaking and reattaching the flexible tethers. We study the diffusion…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. B. Sunil Kumar , Madan Rao

Understanding the phase behaviour of mixtures continues to pose challenges, even for systems that might be considered "simple". Here we consider a very simple mixture of two colloidal and one non-adsorbing polymer species which can be…

We investigate bulk structural properties of tetravalent associating particles within the framework of classical density functional theory, building upon Wertheim's thermodynamic perturbation theory. To this end, we calculate density…

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We present a new network modeling approach for various thin film growth techniques that incorporates re-emitted particles due to the non-unity sticking coefficients. We model re-emission of a particle from one surface site to another one as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-21 Tansel Karabacak , Hasan Guclu , Murat Yuksel

We discuss mixing/segregation phenomena in a schematic hard spheres lattice model for binary mixtures of granular media, by analytical evaluation, within Bethe-Peierls approximation, of Edwards' partition function. The presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tarzia , A. Fierro , M. Nicodemi , M. Pica Ciamarra , A. Coniglio

Fluids with competing short range attraction and long range repulsive interactions between the particles can exhibit a variety of microphase separated structures. We develop a lattice-gas (generalised Ising) model and analyse the phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Blesson Chacko , Christopher Chalmers , Andrew J. Archer

To mimic the complex transport-like collective phenomena in a man-made or natural system, we study an open network junction model of totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with bulk particle attachment and detachment. The stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-23 Ankita Gupta , Arvind Kumar Gupta

The two-dimensional Wigner crystals are studied with the variational quantum Monte Carlo method. The close relationship between the ground-state wavefunction and the collective excitations in the system is illustrated, and used to guide the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Xuejun Zhu , Steven G. Louie

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

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We provide a detailed multiscale analysis of a system of particles interacting through a dynamical network of links. Starting from a microscopic model, via the mean field limit, we formally derive coupled kinetic equations for the particle…

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We examine the role of the condensing agent in the formation of polyelectrolyte bundles, via grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Following recent experiments we use linear, rigid divalent cations of various lengths to induce…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-10 Camilo Guáqueta , Erik Luijten

A coarse-grained computational model is used to investigate the effect of a fluid membrane on patchy-particle assembly into biologically-relevant structures motivated by viral cores and clathrin. For cores, we demonstrate a non-monotonic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-09 Richard Matthews , Christos N. Likos

Using both numerical and variational minimization of the bending and adhesion energy of two-dimensional lipid vesicles, we study their aggregation, and we find that the stable aggregates include an infinite number of vesicles and that they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Ziherl

Monte Carlo simulations have been performed for aqueous charged colloidal suspensions as a function of charge density on the particles and salt concentration. We vary the charge density in our simulations over a range where a reentrant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Mohanty , B. V. R. Tata

The problem of stochastic advection of passive particles by circulating conserved flows on networks is formulated and investigated. The particles undergo transitions between the nodes with the transition rates determined by the flows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov