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The problem of surface effects at a fluid/force field boundary is investigated. A classical simple fluid with a locally introduced field simulating a solid is considered. For the case of a hard-core field, rigid, exponential, realistic, and…

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The decomposition of the energy of a compressible fluid parcel into slow (deterministic) and fast (stochastic) components is interpreted as a stochastic Hamiltonian interacting particle system (HIPS). It is shown that the McKean-Vlasov…

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We present a statistical field theory to describe large length scale effects induced by solutes in a cold and otherwise placid liquid. The theory divides space into a cubic grid of cells. The side length of each cell is of the order of the…

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Two collective properties distinguishing the thin liquid water vapour interface from the bulk liquid are the anisotropy of the pressure tensor giving rise to surface tension and the orientational alignment of the molecules leading to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 Chao Zhang , Michiel Sprik

Recently, based on the method of collective variables the statistical field theory for multicomponent inhomogeneous systems was formulated [O. Patsahan, I. Mryglod, J.-M. Caillol, Journal of Physical Studies, 2007, 11, 133]. In this letter…

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An analytical method to compute thermodynamic properties of a given Hamiltonian system is proposed. This method combines ideas of both dynamical systems and ensemble approaches to thermodynamics, providing de facto a possible alternative to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Leoncini , Alberto D. Verga

A simple model is proposed for the direct correlation function (DCF) for simple fluids consisting of a hard-core contribution, a simple parametrized core correction, and a mean-field tail. The model requires as input only the free energy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-08 James F. Lutsko

Analogue gravity offers an approach for testing the universality and robustness of quantum field theories in curved spacetimes and validating them using down-to-earth, laboratory-based experiments. Fluid interfaces are a promising framework…

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We have given theoretical expressions for the forces exerted on a quasi-2D flat and smooth solid plate immersed into a liquid pool of a simple liquid. All forces given by the theory, the local forces on the top, the contact line and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Yuta Imaizumi , Takeshi Omori , Hiroki Kusudo , Carlos Bistafa , Yasutaka Yamaguchi

The flux-across-surfaces theorem establishes a fundamental relation in quantum scattering theory between the asymptotic outgoing state and a quantity which is directly measured in experiments. We prove it for a hamiltonian with a point…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 G. Panati , A. Teta

Dynamical properties of a generic null surface are known to have a thermodynamic interpretation. Such an interpretation is completely based on an analogy between the usual law of thermodynamics and structure of gravitational field equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Surojit Dalui , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , T. Padmanabhan

The present work proposes an approach for fluid-solid and contact interaction problems including thermo-mechanical coupling and reversible phase transitions. The solid field is assumed to consist of several arbitrarily-shaped, undeformable…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian L. Fuchs , Christoph Meier , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christian J. Cyron

Structural and thermodynamic properties of ionic fluids are related to those of a simpler ``mimic'' system with short ranged intermolecular interactions in a spatially varying effective field by use of Local Molecular Field (LMF) theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yng-gwei Chen , Charanbir Kaur , John D. Weeks

The problem of surface effects at a fluid boundary created by the force field of finite value is investigated. A classical simple fluid with a locally introduced field imitating a permeable solid is considered. The cases of micro- and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-09 V. M. Zaskulnikov

Complex systems are composed of many particles or agents that move and interact with one another. The underlying mathematical framework to model many of these systems must incorporate the spatial transport of particles and their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Mauricio J. del Razo , Tommaso Lamma , Wout Merbis

In this paper, we develop a phase-field model for binary incompressible (quasi-incompressible) fluid with thermocapillary effects, which allows for the different properties (densities, viscosities and heat conductivities) of each component…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin

Thermal fluctuations cause the local normal vectors of fluid interfaces to deviate from the vertical direction defined by the flat mean interface position. This leads to a nonzero mean value of the corresponding polar tilt angle which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Klaus Mecke , Siegfried Dietrich

Understanding what happens inside the rippling and dancing surface of a liquid remains one of the great challenges of fluid dynamics. Using molecular dynamics (MD) we can pick apart the interface structure and understand surface tension. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Edward R. Smith , Carlos Braga

A thermomechanical model of continuous fluid media based on second gradient theory is used to study motions in liquid-vapor interfaces. At equilibrium, the model is shown to be equivalent to mean-field molecular theories of capillarity. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-17 Henri Gouin

We propose a formalization for dissipative fluids with interfaces in an inhomogeneous temperature field from the viewpoint of a variational principle. Generally, the Lagrangian of a fluid is given by the kinetic energy density minus the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-10 Hiroki Fukagawa , Chun Liu , Takeshi Tsuji