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Particle collisions are the primary mechanism of inter-particle momentum and energy exchange for dense particle-laden flow. Accurate approximation of this collision operator in four-way coupled Euler-Lagrange approaches remains challenging…

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In recent years, manipulation of particles by inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention. Most studies focused on inertial focusing of particles suspended within liquid phase, in which the ratio of the density of the…

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We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

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In order to understand how the chemical and isotopic compositions of dust grains in a gaseous turbulent protoplanetary disk are altered during their journey in the disk, it is important to determine their individual trajectories. We study…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sebastien Charnoz , Laure Fouchet , Jérôme Aleon , Manuel Moreira

We perform numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the mid-plane of a protoplanetary disk. A two-dimensional corotating slice in the azimuthal--vertical plane of the disk is considered where we include the Coriolis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Johansen , Thomas Henning , Hubert Klahr

This paper presents a numerical study of flow through static random assemblies of monodisperse, spherical particles. A lattice Boltzmann approach based on a two relaxation time collision operator is used to obtain reliable predictions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-08 Simon Bogner , Swati Mohanty , Ulrich Rüde

Inertial particles in turbulent flows are characterised by preferential concentration and segregation and, at sufficient mass loading, dense particle clusters may spontaneously arise due to momentum coupling between the phases. These…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-30 Alessio Innocenti , Rodney O Fox , Sergio Chibbaro

The hybrid method combining particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamics can be used to study the interaction between energetic particles and global plasma modes. In this paper we introduce the M3D-C1-K code, which is developed based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Chang Liu , Stephen C. Jardin , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nathaniel M. Ferraro , Joshua Breslau

Dynamic characterization of mechanical properties of dust aggregates has been one of the most important problems to quantitatively discuss the dust growth in protoplanetary disks. We experimentally investigate the dynamic properties of dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-12 H. Katsuragi , J. Blum

In this paper, we present a 2D numerical model developed to simulate the dynamics of soft, deformable particles. To accommodate significant particle deformations, the particle surface is represented as a narrow shell composed of mass points…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yohann Trivino , Vincent Richefeu , Farhang Radjai , Komlanvi Lampoh , Jean-Yves Delenne

We investigate the formation of dust gaps in circumstellar disks driven by the presence of multiple low-mass planets, focusing on the distinct physical mechanisms that operate across different gas-dust coupling regimes. We performed 2D…

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We introduce a new model for the spectral energy distribution of galaxies, GRASIL-3D, which includes a careful modelling of the dust component of the interstellar medium. GRASIL-3D is an entirely new model based on the formalism of an…

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A new Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, Sunrise, is used in conjunction with hydrodynamic simulations of major galaxy mergers to calculate the effects of dust in such systems. The simulations are in good agreement with observations of…

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We describe the implementation of a new module which can be used to simulate physical systems in which the motion of particles is affected by stochastic forces. Such forces are expected to be present in turbulent circumstellar disks or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-16 Hanno Rein , Nick Choksi

A highly favoured mechanism of planetesimal formation is collisional growth. Single dust grains, which follow gas flows in the protoplanetary disc, hit each other, stick due to van der Waals forces and form fluffy aggregates up to…

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Bridging theory and observations is a key task to understand galaxy formation and evolution. With the advent of state-of-the-art observational facilities, an accurate modelling of galaxy observables through radiative transfer simulations…

The most difficult aspect of the realistic modeling of granular materials is how to capture the real shape of the particles. Here we present a method to simulate granular materials with complex-shaped particles. The particle shape is…

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We present MULTIGRAIN, an algorithm for simulating multiple phases of small dust grains embedded in a gas, building on our earlier work in simulating two-phase mixtures of gas and dust in SPH (Laibe & Price 2012a,b; Price & Laibe 2015). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-04 Daniel J. Price , Mark Hutchison , Guillaume Laibe

The streaming instability is a leading mechanism for concentrating solids and initiating planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Although numerous studies have explored its linear growth, nonlinear evolution, and implications for…