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Calculating by analytical theory the deformation of finite-sized elastic bodies in response to internally applied forces is a challenge. Here, we derive explicit analytical expressions for the amplitudes of modes of surface deformation of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-15 Lukas Fischer , Andreas M. Menzel

Starting from first principles, we formulate a theory of wave packet propagation in a nonlinear, disordered medium of any dimension, through the derivation of a Fokker-Planck transport equation. Our theory is based on a diagrammatic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-28 Nicolas Cherroret , Thomas Wellens

We derive a master equation for the motion of a polarizable particle weakly interacting with one or several strongly pumped cavity modes. We focus here on massive particles with complex internal structure such as large molecules and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Stefan Nimmrichter , Klemens Hammerer , Peter Asenbaum , Helmut Ritsch , Markus Arndt

A common issue in simulating geometric evolution of surfaces is unexpected clustering of points that may cause numerical instability. We propose a novel artificial tangential velocity method for this matter. The artificial tangential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Jiangong Pan , Guozhi Dong , Hailong Guo , Zuoqiang Shi

We formulate a method for computing Stokes flow past a highly deformed sphere with arbitrarily defined surface velocity. The fundamental ingredient is an explicit extrapolation operator extending a velocity field from the surface of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-25 Amir Nourhani , Paul E. Lammert

We report calculations about the motion of a charged particle in an external electric and magnetic field. The metric for the particle moving on a slope with non-zero traction and coefficient of friction is also evaluated for weak fields. We…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nitish Yadav , Seema Jangir

A simple application of classical density functional theory is derived and applied to a system of polymers grafted to a plane. The system is assumed to have symmetry in directions parallel to the grafting plane hence it being a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Luke Kristopher Davis

By using similarity transformations approach, the exact propagator for a generalized one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation, with linear drift force and space-time dependent diffusion coefficient, is obtained. The method is simple and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Benamira , L. Guechi

The influence of crowding on the diffusion of tagged particles in a dense medium is investigated in the framework of a mean-field model, derived in the continuum limit from a microscopic stochastic process with exclusion. The probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Amos Maritan , Francesco Piazza

Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time ("strong anomaly") and share the interesting property that the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter , I. M. Sokolov

We consider steady gravity-driven flow of a thin layer of viscous fluid over a curved substrate. The substrate has topographical variations (`bumps') on a large scale compared to the layer thickness. Using lubrication theory, we find the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Khalid Kamhawi

Based on the generalized non-Markovian equations obtained earlier for a nonequilibrium one-particle distribution function and potential part of the averaged enthalpy density [Markiv B.B., Omelyan I.P, Tokarchuk M.V., Condens. Matter Phys.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-30 B. B. Markiv , I. P. Omelyan , M. V. Tokarchuk

In this work, we introduce the use of the differential geometry Frenet-Serret equations to describe a magnetic line in a pulsar magnetosphere. These equations, which need to be solved numerically, fix the magnetic line in terms of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres

A generalized physics-based expression for the drag coefficient of spherical particles moving in a fluid is derived. The proposed correlation incorporates essential rarefied physics, low-speed hydrodynamics, and shock-wave physics to…

This papers deals with overall phase transformation kinetics. The Fokker-Planck type equation is derived from the generalized nucleation theory proposed by Binder and Stauffer. Existence of the steady state solution is shown by a method…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiyuki Saito

We consider the motion of a charge in a large amplitude electrostatic wave with a triangular wave form relevant to an oscillating model of a pulsar magnetosphere. The (one-dimensional) orbit of a particle in such a wave is found exactly in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 D. B. Melrose , M. Z. Rafat , Q. Luo

We derive a fully covariant theory of the mechanics of active surfaces. This theory provides a framework for the study of active biological or chemical processes at surfaces, such as the cell cortex, the mechanics of epithelial tissues, or…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Guillaume Salbreux , Frank Jülicher

Processes of propagation and interaction of nonlinear gravity-capillary waves on the free surface of a deep non-conducting liquid with high dielectric constant under the action of a tangential electric field are numerically simulated. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 Evgeny A. Kochurin , Nikolay M. Zubarev

This paper studies the large time existence for the motion of closed hypersurfaces in a radially symmetric potential. In physical, this surface can be considered as an electrically charged membrane with a constant charge per area in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Weiping Yan

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White