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We use the dynamic length and time scale separation in suspensions to formulate a general description of colloidal thermophoresis. Our approach allows an unambiguous definition of separate contributions to the colloidal flux and clarifies…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-19 Jerome Burelbach , Daan Frenkel , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Erika Eiser

When monitoring the dynamics of stochastic systems, such as interacting particles agitated by thermal noise, disentangling deterministic forces from Brownian motion is challenging. Indeed, we show that there is an information-theoretic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-16 Anna Frishman , Pierre Ronceray

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of motion for a fluid of active particles described by under- damped Langevin equations that reduce to the Active-Brownian-Particle model, in the overdamped limit. The contraction into the hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Stefano Steffenoni , Gianmaria Falasco , Klaus Kroy

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

We perform detailed computational and experimental measurements of the driven dynamics of a dense, uniform suspension of sedimented microrollers driven by a magnetic field rotating around an axis parallel to the floor. We develop a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 Brennan Sprinkle , Ernest B. van der Wee , Yixiang Luo , Michelle Driscoll , Aleksandar Donev

Achieving precise control of colloidal self-assembly into specific patterns remains a longstanding challenge due to the complex process dynamics. Recently, machine learning-based state representation and reinforcement learning-based control…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-19 Andres Lizano-Villalobos , Fangyuan Ma , Wentao Tang , Wei Sun , Xun Tang

We derive a dynamic Ornstein-Zernike equation for classical fluids undergoing overdamped Brownian motion and driven out of equilibrium. Inhomogeneous two-time correlation functions are obtained from functional differentiation of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-31 Joseph M. Brader , Matthias Schmidt

Using limited observations of the velocity field of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, we successfully reconstruct the steady body force that drives the flow. The number of observed data points is less than 10\% of the number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-26 Aseel Farhat , Adam Larios , Vincent R. Martinez , Jared P. Whitehead

The Dynamic Density Functional (DDF) theory and standard Brownian dynamics simulations (BDS) are used to study the drifting effects of a colloidal particle in a polymer solution, both for ideal and interacting polymers. The structure of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Penna , J. Dzubiella , P. Tarazona

In this paper, we propose an approach for simulating wall-bounded incompressible turbulent flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core principles of large-eddy simulations (LES). In particular, we employ the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

The interplay between concentration, flow, hydrodynamic interactions (HI), and topological interactions governing semidilute polymer dynamics in strong flows are challenging to characterize. Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Charles D. Young , Charles E. Sing

A system reservoir model, where the associated reservoir is modulated by an external colored random force, is proposed to study the transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in a periodic potential. We then derive the analytical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-01 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Suman Kumar Banik , Sudip Chattopadhyay , Pinaki Chaudhury

Slender bodies capable of spontaneous motion in the absence of external actuation in an otherwise quiescent fluid are common in biological, physical and technological contexts. The interplay between the spontaneous fluid flow, Brownian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-13 Abhrajit Laskar , R. Adhikari

We present an exact solution for one-dimensional overdamped dynamics near a hard wall, allowing us to connect steady-state distributions under confinement with the extreme value statistics of unconfined stochastic processes. This mapping…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-05 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey

Energy distributions of high frequency linear wave fields are often modelled in terms of flow or transport equations with ray dynamics given by a Hamiltonian vector field in phase space. Applications arise in underwater and room acoustics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 David Chappell , Gregor Tanner , Niels Sondergaard , Dominik Loechel

The coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) or Brownian dynamics (BD) simulation is a particle-based approach that has been applied to a wide range of biological problems that involve interactions with surrounding fluid molecules or the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-20 Szu-Pei Fu , Yuan-Nan Young , Shidong Jiang

Standard algorithms for the numerical integration of the Langevin equation require that interactions are slowly varying during to the integration timestep. This in not the case for hard-body systems, where there is no clearcut between the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-07 Antonio Scala

A new and very general technique for simulating solid-fluid suspensions is described; its most important feature is that the computational cost scales linearly with the number of particles. The method combines Newtonian dynamics of the…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Anthony J. C. Ladd

We describe a method to address efficiently problems of two-phase flow in the regime of low particle Reynolds number and negligible Brownian motion. One of the phases is an incompressible continuous fluid and the other a discrete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Stefan Schwarzer

The distribution of forces on the surface of complex, deforming geometries is an invaluable output of flow simulations. One particular example of such geometries involves self-propelled swimmers. Surface forces can provide significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-25 Siddhartha Verma , Gabriele Abbati , Guido Novati , Petros Koumoutsakos