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Context. Three-dimensional spherical dynamo simulations carried out within the framework of the anelastic approximation have revealed that the established distinction between dipolar and multipolar dynamos tends to be less clear than it was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Raphaël Raynaud , Ludovic Petitdemange , Emmanuel Dormy

We study the layer-to-layer diffusion in smectic-A liquid crystals of colloidal hard rods with different length-to-diameter ratios using computer simulations. The layered arrangement of the smectic phase yields a hopping-type diffusion due…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-16 Alessandro Patti , Djamel El Masri , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

We discuss the evolution of anisotropic boost-invariant quark-gluon plasma possibly created at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our considerations are based on the recently proposed formalism that is an extension of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 W. Florkowski , R. Ryblewski

We use numerical simulations to understand how random deviations from the ideal spherical shape affect the ability of hard particles to form fcc crystalline structures. Using a system of hard spheres as a reference, we determine the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-23 William L. Miller , Angelo Cacciuto

Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the diffusion behavior of penetrable-sphere model fluids characterized by a finite energy barrier $\epsilon$. The self-diffusion coefficient is evaluated from the time-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Soong-Hyuck Suh , Chun-Ho Kim , Soon-Chul Kim , Andrés Santos

The deposition process at the edge of evaporating colloidal drops varies with the shape of suspended particles. Experiments with prolate ellipsoidal particles suggest that the spatiotemporal properties of the deposit depend strongly on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-08 Cristóvão Dias , Peter Yunker , Arjun Yodh , Nuno Araújo , Margarida Telo da Gama

Particle stabilized emulsions have received an enormous interest in the recent past, but our understanding of the dynamics of emulsion formation is still limited. For simple spherical particles, the time dependent growth of fluid domains is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-10 Florian Günther , Stefan Frijters , Jens Harting

The acceleration of energetic particle transport in high amplitude magnetosonic and Alfvenic turbulence is considered using the method of Monte Carlo particle simulations, involving integration of particle equations of motion. We derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 G. Michalek , M. Ostrowski , R. Schlickeiser

The rheology of dense granular shear flows is influenced by friction and particle shape. We investigate numerically the impact of non-spherical particle geometries under shear on packing fraction, stress ratios, velocity fluctuations, force…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-04 Jacopo Bilotto , Martin Trulsson , Jean-François Molinari

The present study investigates the gravity-driven settling dynamics of non-Brownian suspensions of spherical and cubic particles within a triply periodic domain. The effect of solid volume fraction on the evolving microstructure of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-27 Dipankar Kundu , Florencio Balboa Usabiaga , Marco Ellero

The propagation of acoustic or elastic waves in artificial crystals, including the case of phononic and sonic crystals, is inherently anisotropic. As is known from the theory of periodic composites, anisotropy is directly dictated by the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Vincent Laude , Julio Andres Iglesias Martinez , Yan-Feng Wang , Muamer Kadic

Using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of a two-component Lennard-Jones model in three dimensions, we show that the late-time dynamics of spinodal decomposition in concentrated binary fluids reaches a viscous scaling regime with a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mohamed Laradji , Soeren Toxvaerd , Ole G. Mouritsen

Above a certain density threshold, suspensions of rod-like colloidal particles form system-spanning networks. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate how the depletion forces caused by spherical particles affect these networks in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Schilling , S. Jungblut , Mark A. Miller

Transport of cold atoms in shallow optical lattices is characterized by slow, nonstationary momentum relaxation. We here develop a projector operator method able to derive in this case a generalized Smoluchowski equation for the position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dechant , E. Lutz

Plasma physics give an example of physical system of particles with the long range interaction. At small velocity of particles we can consider the plasma approximately as a system of particles with the Coulomb interaction. The Coulomb…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 P. A. Andreev

A first principles approach to the nonlinear flow of dense suspensions is presented which captures shear thinning of colloidal fluids and dynamical yielding of colloidal glasses. The advection of density fluctuations plays a central role,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthias Fuchs , Michael E. Cates

General relativistic anisotropic fluid models whose fluid flow lines form a shear-free, irrotational, geodesic timelike congruence are examined. These models are of Petrov type D, and are assumed to have zero heat flux and an anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Des J. Mc Manus , Alan A. Coley

We obtain an expression for the active gravitational mass of a collapsing fluid distribution, which brings out the role of density inhomogeneity and local anisotropy in the fate of spherical collapse.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. L. Hernandez-Pastora , N. O. Santos

We study anisotropic fluid dynamics derived from the Boltzmann equation based on a particular choice for the anisotropic distribution function within a boost-invariant expansion of the fluid in one spatial dimension. In order to close the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 H. Niemi , E. Molnár , D. H. Rischke

Kinetics of phase separation in a three dimensional single-component Lennard-Jones fluid, that exhibits vapor-liquid transition, is studied via molecular dynamics simulations after quenching homogeneous systems, of different overall…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Sutapa Roy , Subir K. Das