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The buckling of elastic bodies is a common phenomenon in the mechanics of solids. Wrinkling of membranes can often be interpreted as buckling under constraints that prohibit large amplitude deformation. We present a combination of analytic…

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Here we use data from multi-scale galactic MHD simulations to observe filaments and star forming clumps on 10's of pc scales and investigate flow rate relationships along, and onto filaments as well as flows towards the clumps. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 M. R. A. Wells , R. Pillsworth , H. Beuther , R. E. Pudritz , E. W. Koch

This paper describes 3D simulations of the formation of collapsing cold clumps via thermal instability inside a larger cloud complex. The initial condition was a diffuse atomic, stationary, thermally unstable, 200pc diameter spherical cloud…

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This paper presents an experimental investigation on pattern formation and evolution in bilayered tubular organs using swelling deformation of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and aims at supplying a thorough comparison with theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-15 Rui-Cheng Liu , Lishuai Jin , Zongxi Cai , Yang Liu

We consider a three-dimensional network of aqueous droplets joined by single lipid bilayers to form a cohesive, tissue-like material. The droplets in these networks can be programmed to have distinct osmolarities so that osmotic gradients…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-23 T. Zhang , Duanduan Wan , J. M. Schwarz , M. J. Bowick

We study the hydrodynamic mechanisms involved in the motion of the contact line formed at the end region of a liquid filament laying on a planar and horizontal substrate. Since the flow develops under partially wetting conditions, the tip…

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We present a new method to identify large scale filaments and apply it to a cosmological simulation. Using positions of haloes above a given mass as node tracers, we look for filaments between them using the positions and masses of all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Nelson E. Padilla

Active matter agents consume internal energy or extract energy from the environment for locomotion and force generation. Already rather generic models, such as ensembles of active Brownian particles, exhibit phenomena, which are absent at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-27 Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Several experiments have demonstrated the existence of an electro-mechanical effect in many biological tissues and hydrogels, and its actual influence on growth, migration, and pattern formation. Here, to model these interactions and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-07 Yangkun Du , Yipin Su , Chaofeng Lu , Weiqiu Chen , Michel Destrade

Wrinkling patterns at the metallized surface of thin polymer films are shown to be sensitive to the sticky or slippery character of the polymer/substrate interface (titanium coating, polystyrene film and coated silicon substrate). Selective…

We study the dynamics and equilibrium profile shapes of contact lines for wetting in the case of a spatially inhomogeneous solid wall with stripe defects. Using a phase-field model with conserved dynamics, we first numerically determine the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kaifu Luo , Mikko-Pekka Kuittu , Chaohui Tong , Sami Majaniemi , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Soft slender structures are ubiquitous in natural and artificial systems and can be observed at scales that range from the nanometric to the kilometric, from polymers to space tethers. We present a practical numerical approach to simulate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-18 Mattia Gazzola , Levi H. Dudte , Andrew G. McCormick , L. Mahadevan

It is investigated, on the basis of the fluctuation exchange approximation, how the shape of the Fermi surface is modified in two-dimensional $t-t'-U$ Hubbard model at half filling as strength of the onsite Coulomb interaction $U$ is…

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We report the controllability of a gelation surface pattern formation. Recently, we have found and studied a novel kind of pattern formation that occurs during a radical polymerization (gelation) process. The pattern formation is observed…

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Curvature plays a central organizational role in active polymer dynamics. Using large-scale Langevin-dynamics simulations, we study active semiflexible filaments confined to smooth curved surfaces and map how curvature, bending rigidity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-18 Giulia Janzen , Euan D. Mackay , Rastko Sknepnek , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez

We explore the impact of hydrodynamic interactions on the conformational and dynamical properties of wet tangentially-driven active polymers using multiparticle collision dynamics simulations. By analyzing active filaments with varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-24 Loek van Steijn , Mohammad Fazelzadeh , Sara Jabbari-Farouji

Real world surfaces can often be modeled as a collection of edges, corners, dents or spikes of varying roundness. These features exhibit individual spontaneous wetting behaviors comprising pinned contact lines, rivulets or cusps. If…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-06 Felix Gerlach , Maximilian Hartmann , Cameron Tropea

Inspired by active shape morphing in developing tissues and biomaterials, we investigate two generic mechanochemical models where the deformations of a thin elastic sheet are driven by, and in turn affect, the concentration gradients of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrei Zakharov , Kinjal Dasbiswas

Bringing a rigid object into contact with a soft elastic tube causes the tube to conform to the surface of the object, resulting in contact lines. The curvature of the tube walls near these contact lines is often large and is typically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Bhargav Rallabandi , Joel Marthelot , P. -T. Brun , Jens Eggers

Structure and dynamics of an active polymer on a smooth cylindrical surface are studied by Brownian dynamics simulations. The effect of active force on the polymer adsorption behavior and the combined effect of chain mobility, length N,…

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