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The dynamics of macroscopically homogeneous sheared suspensions of neutrally buoyant, non-Brownian spheres is investigated in the limit of vanishingly small Reynolds numbers using Stokesian dynamics. We show that the complex dynamics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Drazer , J. Koplik , B. Khusid , A. Acrivos

Controlling the motion of nano and microscale objects in a fluid environment is a key factor in designing optimized tiny machines that perform mechanical tasks such as transport of drugs or genetic material in cells, fluid mixing to…

Fluctuating hydrodynamics has been successfully combined with several computational methods to rapidly compute the correlated random velocities of Brownian particles. In the overdamped limit where both particle and fluid inertia are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Blaise Delmotte , Eric E Keaveny

The nonequilibrium hydrodynamic correlations of a Multiparticle-Collision-Dynamics (MPC) fluid in shear flow are studied by analytical calculations and simulations. The Navier-Stokes equations for a MPC fluid are linearized about the shear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-24 Anoop Varghese , Chien-Cheng Huang , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

The dynamics of low-dimensional Brownian particles coupled to time-dependent driven anisotropic heavy particles (mesogens) in a uniform bath (solvent) have been described through the use of a variant of the stochastic Langevin equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Hershkovits , Rigoberto Hernandez

We consider a two-dimensional model system of Brownian particles in which slow particles are accelerated while fast particles are damped. The motion of the individual particles are described by a Langevin equation with Rayleigh-Helmholtz…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 Anoosheh Yazdi , Matthias Sperl

We apply a hybrid Molecular Dynamics and mesoscopic simulation technique to study the dynamics of two dimensional colloidal discs in confined geometries. We calculate the velocity autocorrelation functions, and observe the predicted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Jimaan Sané , Ard A. Louis , Johan Padding

We study correlations of hydrodynamic fluctuations in shear flow analytically and also by dissipative particle dynamics~(DPD) simulations. The hydrodynamic equations are linearized around the macroscopic velocity field and then solved by a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-02 Xin Bian , Mingge Deng , George Em Karniadakis

By now active Brownian motion is a well-established model to describe the motion of mesoscopic self-propelled particles in a Newtonian fluid. On the basis of the generalized Langevin equation, we present an analytic framework for active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Alexander R. Sprenger , Christian Bair , Hartmut Löwen

We investigate hadronic particle spectra and flow characteristics of heavy-ion reactions in the FAIR/NICA energy range of $1\ A{\rm GeV} \le E_{\rm lab} \le 10\ A{\rm GeV}$ within a relativistic ideal hydrodynamic one-fluid approach. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Christian Spieles , Marcus Bleicher

Recently, Lad, Patel, and Pratap (LP&P) [Phys. Rev. E 105, 064107 (2022)] revisited a microscopic theory of molecular motion in liquids, proposed by Glass and Rice [Phys. Rev. 176, 239 (1968)]. Coming from this theory, LP&P derived a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-30 Vladimir Lisy , Jana Tothova

We develop a new model, to our knowledge, for the many-body hydrodynamics of amphiphilic Janus particles suspended in a viscous background flow. The Janus particles interact through a hydrophobic attraction potential that leads to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-05 Szu-Pei Fu , Bryan Quaife , Rolf Ryham , Yuan-Nan Young

Particle-particle interactions are of paramount importance in every multi-body system as they determine the collective behaviour and coupling strength. Many well-known interactions like electro-static, van der Waals or screened Coulomb,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Karolis Misiunas , Stefano Pagliara , Eric Lauga , John R. Lister , Ulrich F. Keyser

Chemically powered self-propelled colloids generate a motor force by converting locally a source of energy into directed motion, a process that has been explored both in experiments and in computational models. The use of active colloids as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-22 Pierre de Buyl

In colloidal systems, Brownian motion emerges from the massive separation of time and length scales associated to characteristic dynamics of the solute and solvent constituents. This separation of scales produces several temporal regimes in…

When water molecules are confined to nanoscale spacings, such as in the nanometer size pores of activated carbon fiber (ACF), their freezing point gets suppressed down to very low temperatures ($\sim$ 150 K), leading to a metastable liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 S. O. Diallo , L. Vlcek , E. Mamontov , J. K. Keum , Jihua Chen , J. S. Hayes , A. A. Chialvo

We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the influence of both a spatially homogeneous driving force and a periodic potential with period…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-02 Takenobu Nakamura , Shin-ichi Sasa

In this paper we study a new class of shell models, defined in terms of two complex dynamical variables per shell, transporting positive and negative helicity respectively. The dynamical equations are derived from a decomposition into…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Benzi , L. Biferale , E. Trovatore

We report on the short-time dynamics in colloidal mixtures made up of monomers and dimers highly confined between two glass-plates. At low concentrations, the experimental measurements of colloidal motion agree well with the solution of the…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of ions (K$^+$, Na$^+$, Ca$^{2+}$ and Cl$^-$) in aqueous solutions are investigated. Water is described using the SPC/E model. A stochastic coarse-grained description for ion behaviour is presented and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Radek Erban