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Many active matter systems, especially on the microscopic scale, are well approximated as overdamped, meaning that any inertial momentum is immediately dissipated by the environment. On the other hand, especially for macroscopic active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-14 Dominic Arold , Michael Schmiedeberg

Graph-theoretical approach is used to study cluster formation in mesocsopic systems. Appearance of these clusters are due to discrete resonances which are presented in the form of a multigraph with labeled edges. This presentation allows to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-09-27 Elena Kartashova , Guenther Mayrhofer

The dynamics of glass formation in monatomic and binary liquids are studied numerically using a microscopic field theory for the evolution of the time-averaged atomic number density. A stochastic framework combining phase field crystal free…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Joel Berry , Martin Grant

This chapter focuses on the mathematical modelling of active particles (or agents) in crowded environments. We discuss several microscopic models found in literature and the derivation of the respective macroscopic partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-11 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Marie-Therese Wolfram

We present a mesoscale representation of near-contact interactions between colliding droplets which permits to reach up to the scale of full microfluidic devices, where such droplets are produced. The method is demonstrated for the case of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Adriano Tiribocchi , Sauro Succi

The Method of Continuous Molecular Fields is a universal approach to predict various properties of chemical compounds, in which molecules are represented by means of continuous fields (such as electrostatic, steric, electron density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-11-07 Igor I. Baskin , Nelly I. Zhokhova

Many complex systems are characterized by intriguing spatio-temporal structures. Their mathematical description relies on the analysis of appropriate correlation functions. Functional integral techniques provide a unifying formalism that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-12 Uwe C. Tauber

Subdiffusion has been proposed as an explanation of various kinetic phenomena inside living cells. In order to fascilitate large-scale computational studies of subdiffusive chemical processes, we extend a recently suggested mesoscopic model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Emilie Blanc , Stefan Engblom , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

The dynamics of active smectic liquid crystals confined on a spherical surface is explored through an active phase field crystal model. Starting from an initially randomly perturbed isotropic phase, several types of topological defects are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-11 Michael Nestler , Simon Praetorius , Zhi-Feng Huang , Hartmut Löwen , Axel Voigt

The pedestrian flow is one of the most complex systems, involving large populations of interacting agents. Models at microscopic and macroscopic scales offer different advantages for studying related problems. In general, microscopic models…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-27 Liangze Yang , Hui Yu , Jie Du

The term active nematics designates systems in which apolar elongated particles spend energy to move randomly along their axis and interact by inelastic collisions in the presence of noise. Starting from a simple Vicsek-style model for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Eric Bertin , Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Shradha Mishra , Anton Peshkov , Sriram Ramaswamy

We introduce a novel model for active particles with short-range aligning interactions and study their behaviour in crowded environments using numerical simulations. When only active particles are present, we observe a transition from a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Simon Nilsson , Giovanni Volpe

The active Phase-Field-Crystal (aPFC) model combines elements of the Toner-Tu theory for self-propelled particles and the classical Phase-Field-Crystal (PFC) model that describes the transition between liquid to crystalline phases. In the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-25 Lukas Ophaus , Johannes Kirchner , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

The mesosocpic concept is applied to the theory of mixtures. The aim is to investigate the diffusion phenomenon from a mesoscopic point of view. The domain of the field quantities is extended by the set of mesoscopic variables, here the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Palumbo , C. Papenfuss , P. Rogolino

A general stochastic approach to the description of coagulating aerosol system is developed. As the object of description one can consider arbitrary mesoscopic values (number of aerosol clusters, their size etc). The birth-and-death…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 V. V. Ryazanov

In this research, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are combined with mesoscopic phase-field computational methods in order to investigate phase-transformation in polycrystalline Aluminum microstructure. In fact, microstructural…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-03 Mehrdad Yousefi

A mesoscopic colloid model is developed in which a spherical colloid is represented by many interacting sites on its surface. The hydrodynamic interactions with thermal fluctuations are taken accounts in full using Dissipative Particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-16 Jiajia Zhou , Friederike Schmid

In contrast with classical approaches, we present the project based on considering Collective Behaviours as coherent sequences of states adopted by different single systems consisting of the same elements interacting over time in different…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-10-12 Gianfranco Minati

We discuss an approach for studying the properties of mesoscopic systems, where discrete and continuum parts of the spectrum are equally important. The approach can be applied (i) to stable heavy nuclei and complex atoms near the continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 G. L. Celardo , F. M. Izrailev , S. Sorathia , V. G. Zelevinsky , G. P. Berman

We study the evolution of interacting groups of agents in two-dimensional geometries. We introduce a microscopic stochastic model that includes floor fields modeling the global flow of individual groups as well as local interaction rules.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-03 William Ott , Ilya Timofeyev , Thomas Weber