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This paper presents a model and numerical analysis (simulations) of transmembrane potential induced in biological cell membrane under the influence of externally applied electric field (i.e., electroporation). This model differs from the…

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In Part I of this set of two papers, a model of mesoscopic plasticity is developed for studying initial-boundary value problems of small scale plasticity. Here we make qualitative, finite element method-based computational predictions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Anish Roy , Amit Acharya

The settling of colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions is investigated via highly resolved immersed boundary simulations. At modest volume fractions, we show that inter-colloid attractions lead to clustering that reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-29 Andrew M. Fiore , Gang Wang , James W. Swan

Recent theoretical research on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics has led to a remarkable discovery [2-4]: with a locally nonchaotic energy barrier, a macroscopic system may produce useful work in a cycle by absorbing heat from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Yu Qiao , Meng Wang

Ferrofluid heating by an external alternating field is studied based on the rigid dipole model, where the magnetization of each particle in a fluid is supposed to be firmly fixed in the crystal lattice. Equations of motion, employing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 T. V. Lyutyy , V. V. Reva

Dislocation nucleation is essential to our understanding of plastic deformation, ductility and mechanical strength of crystalline materials. Molecular dynamics simulation has played an important role in uncovering the fundamental mechanisms…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Seunghwa Ryu , Keonwook Kang , Wei Cai

We introduce and investigate a coarse-grained model for quasi one-dimensional ferrogels. In our description the magnetic particles are represented by hard spheres with a magnetic dipole moment in their centers. Harmonic springs connecting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 M. A. Annunziata , A. M. Menzel , H. Löwen

Ultrathin layers of semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) offer significant prospects in future electronic and optoelectronic applications. Although an increasing number of experiments bring light into the electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Jing Wu , Hennrik Schmidt , Amara Kiran Kumar , Xiangfan Xu , Goki Eda , Barbaros Özyilmaz

The main idea of magnetic hyperthermia is to increase locally the temperature of the human body by means of injected superparamagnetic nanoparticles. They absorb energy from a time-dependent external magnetic field and transfer it into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-27 Zs. Iszaly , I. G. Marian , I. A. Szabo , A. Trombettoni , I. Nandori

Levitated nanoparticles are a promising platform for sensing applications and for macroscopic quantum experiments. While the nanoparticles' motional temperatures can be reduced to near absolute zero, their uncontrolled internal degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Jonas Schäfer , Benjamin A. Stickler , Klaus Hornberger

We present an experimental micro-model of drying porous media, based on microfluidic cells made of arrays of pillars on a regular grid, and complement these experiments with a matching two-dimensional pore-network model of drying. Disorder,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-29 Paolo Fantinel , Oshri Borgman , Ran Holtzman , Lucas Goehring

We develop a theory of magneto-oscillations in photoconductivity of multisubband two-dimensional electron systems which takes into account strong Coulomb interaction between electrons. In the presence of a magnetic field oriented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Yuriy P. Monarkha

We present a novel methodology to compute relaxed dislocations core configurations, and their energies in crystalline metallic materials using large-scale \emph{ab-intio} simulations. The approach is based on MacroDFT, a coarse-grained…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Mauricio Ponga , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Michael Ortiz

A long standing puzzle in fusion research comes from experiments where a sudden peripheral electron temperature perturbation is accompanied by an almost simultaneous opposite change in central temperature, in a way incompatible with local…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 F. Sattin , D. F. Escande

We study the conduction of heat across a narrow solid strip trapped by an external potential and in contact with its own liquid. Structural changes, consisting of addition and deletion of crystal layers in the trapped solid, are produced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Surajit Sengupta

The deformation and rupture of a lipid vesicle due to the forced normal approach of an inclusion are essential for optimizing the design of magnetic giant unilamellar vesicles [magGUVs, Malik et al., Nanoscale 17, 13720 (2025)], with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuan-Nan Young , Bryan Quaife , Herve Nganguia , On Shun Pak , Jie Feng , Howard A. Stone

In this paper homogenization of a mathematical model for plant tissue biomechanics is presented. The microscopic model constitutes a strongly coupled system of reaction-diffusion-convection equations for chemical processes in plant cells,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Andrey Piatnitski , Mariya Ptashnyk

Hydrodynamic electron transport, namely, the electric behaviors in solid materials at the macroscopic level are similar to the fluid hydrodynamics when the momentum-conserving electron-electron scattering plays the leading role, has got…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Chuang Zhang , Meng Lian , Hong Liang , Xiaokang Li , Zhaoli Guo , JingTao Lü

We use a new Atmospheric Chemistry and Energetics one-dimensional (ACE1D) thermospheric model to show that the energies deposited by the solar soft x-rays in the lower thermosphere at altitudes between 100 -150 km (Bailey et al. 2000),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-23 Srimoyee Samaddar , Karthik Venkataramani , Scott. M. Bailey

Thermal transmission in a molecular transistor with fully spin-polarized electrodes subjected to a temperature gradient is considered. The problem has been solved by using density matrix method in perturbation approach over small tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 A. D. Shkop