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A three-dimensional simulation model is proposed here to study the erosive wear of structure caused by solid particles, which accounts for the accumulation of surface deformation and degradation during the erosion process. Although there…

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Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) belongs to a class of models and computational algorithms developed to address mesoscale problems in complex fluids and soft matter in general. It is based on the notion of particles that represent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Pep Español , Patrick B Warren

We present a Virtual Element Method (VEM) for possibly nonlinear elastic and inelastic problems, mainly focusing on a small deformation regime. The numerical scheme is based on a low-order approximation of the displacement field, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 L. Beirão da Veiga , C. Lovadina , D. Mora

Hybrid particle-field methods are computationally efficient approaches for modelling soft matter systems. So far applications of these methodologies have been limited to constant volume conditions. Here, we reformulate particle-field…

Particle beds are widely used in various systems and processes, such as particle heat exchangers, granular flow reactors, and additive manufacturing. Accurate modeling of thermal conductivity of particle beds and understanding of their heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-10 Jian Zeng , Ka Man Chung , Xintong Zhang , Sarath Adapa , Tianshi Feng , Yu Pei , Renkun Chen

The dynamics of dissipative soft-sphere gases obeys Newton's equation of motion which are commonly solved numerically by (force-based) Molecular Dynamics schemes. With the assumption of instantaneous, pairwise collisions, the simulation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Patric Mueller , Thorsten Poeschel

We extend thresholding methods for numerical realization of mean curvature flow on obstacles to the anisotropic setting where interfacial energy depends on the orientation of the interface. This type of schemes treats the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Siddharth Gavhale , Karel Svadlenka

A granular system composed of frictional glass beads is simulated using the Discrete Element Method. The inter-grain forces are based on the Hertz contact law in the normal direction with frictional tangential force. The damping due to…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Laure Lemrich , Paul A. Johnson , Robert Guyer , Xiaoping Jia , Jan Carmeliet

This article is a continuation of our previous studies of the frictional anisotropy of metal nanoparticles on the surface of a graphene substrate for other temperature conditions. The friction force acting on palladium nanoparticles on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 A. V. Khomenko , M. V. Zakharov

From a structural point of view, plasmonic nanoparticles are always at least two-layer structures with a dielectric layer of stabilizing, targeting, fluorescent, Raman, or other functional molecules. To optimize the optical properties of…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Nikolai G. Khlebtsov , Sergey V. Zarkov

Molecular dynamics simulations can generate atomically detailed trajectories of complex systems, but analyzing these dynamics can be challenging when systems lack well-established quantitative descriptors (features). Graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zihan Pengmei , Spencer C. Guo , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Aaron R. Dinner

In the research of condensed matter, atomistic dynamic simulations play a crucial role, particularly in revealing dynamic processes, phase transitions and thermodynamic statistics macroscopic physical properties in systems such as solids…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-30 Hongyu Wu , Wenliang Shi , Ri He , Guoyong Shi , Chunxiao Zhang , Zhicheng Zhong , Run-wei Li

Discrete particle simulations are used to model segregation in granular mixtures of three different particle species in a horizontal rotating drum. Axial band formation is observed, with medium-size particles tending to be located between…

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Simulations of complex physical systems are typically realized by discretizing partial differential equations (PDEs) on unstructured meshes. While neural networks have recently been explored for surrogate and reduced order modeling of PDE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiayang Xu , Aniruddhe Pradhan , Karthik Duraisamy

Polar sea ice is crucial to Earth's climate system. Its dynamics also affect coastal communities, wildlife, and global shipping. Sea ice is typically modeled as a continuum fluid using a model proposed almost 50 years ago, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-28 Gonzalo G. de Diego , Georg Stadler

In this article we consider the widely used immersed finite element method (IFEM), in both explicit and implicit form, and its relationship to our more recent one-field fictitious domain method (FDM). We review and extend the formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yongxing Wang , Peter K. Jimack , Mark A. Walkley

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

Understanding the contact dynamics of nonspherical particles beyond the microscale is crucial for accurately modeling colloidal and granular systems, where shape anisotropy dictates structural organization and transport properties. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Haoyuan Shi , Christopher J. Mundy , Gregory K. Schenter , Jaehun Chun

Parameter inference for stochastic differential equation mixed effects models (SDEMEMs) is a challenging problem. Analytical solutions for these models are rarely available, which means that the likelihood is also intractable. In this case,…

Computation · Statistics 2019-09-30 Imke Botha , Robert Kohn , Christopher Drovandi

We present an efficient hybrid Neural Network-Finite Element Method (NN-FEM) for solving the viscous-plastic (VP) sea-ice model. The VP model is widely used in climate simulations to represent large-scale sea-ice dynamics. However, the…

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