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The fluidic behavior of water at the micro/nano scale is studied by using of single DNA molecules as a model system. Stable curved DNA patterns with spans about one micron were generated by using of water flows, and observed by Atomic Force…
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We reconcile two scaling laws that have been proposed in the literature for the slip length associated with a moving contact line in diffuse interface models, by demonstrating each to apply in a different regime of the ratio of the…
Nanodroplets on chemically structured substrates move under the action of disjoining pressure induced forces. A detailed analysis of them shows that even in the absence of long-ranged lateral variations of the effective interface potential,…
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The suggested approach makes it possible to produce a consistent description of motions of a physical system. It is shown that the concept of force fields defining the systems dynamics is equivalent to the choice of the corresponding metric…
We show the existence of weak solutions to the fluid-structure interaction problem of a largely deforming viscoelastic bulk solid with a viscous fluid governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In contrast to previous works,…
We investigate a fluid-structure interaction system in which the dynamics of the fluid is described by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, while the elastic structure is modeled by a damped plate equation. The fluid evolves in a…
We propose a mathematical derivation of stochastic compressible Navier-Stokes equation. We consider many-particle systems with a Hamiltonian dynamics supplemented by a friction term and environmental noise. Both the interaction potential…
Real time fluid dynamics videos showing the motion and aggregation of nanorods induced by moving contact lines were obtained by liquid cell in situ scanning transmission electron microscopy.
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We show that weak convergence of point measures and $(2+\epsilon)$-moment conditions imply hydrodynamic equations at the limit of infinitely many interacting molecules. The conditions are satisfied whenever the solutions of the classical…
To further understand the complex behavior of swimming microorganisms, the spontaneous motion of nonliving matter provides essential insights. While substantial research has focused on quantitatively analyzing complex behavioral patterns,…
The size dependence of the equilibrium droplet contact angle is governed by line tension. In this work, we identify a contribution to line tension arising from gravitational effects and pressure-induced changes in volume-fraction-dependent…