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We consider the effect of intermolecular interactions on the optimal size-distribution of $N$ hard spheres that occupy a fixed total volume. When we minimize the free-energy of this system, within the Percus-Yevick approximation, we find…

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We study, from first principles, the pressure exerted by an active fluid of spherical particles on general boundaries in two dimensions. We show that, despite the non-uniform pressure along curved walls, an equation of state is recovered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Nikolai Nikola , Alexandre P. Solon , Yariv Kafri , Mehran Kardar , Julien Tailleur , Raphaël Voituriez

The crystal-melt interfaces of a binary hard-sphere fluid mixture in coexistence with a single-component hard-sphere crystal is investigated using molecular-dynamics simulation. In the system under study, the fluid phase consists of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Sibug-Aga , Brian B. Laird

In this paper, a novel method for the measurement of equilibrium contact angle of highly volatile binary liquids is proposed. The proposed method, which combines finite element method and energy equilibration, is able to calculate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 K Nilavarasi , V. Madhurima

This paper presents a general and robust method for the fluid-structure interaction of membranes and shells undergoing large displacement and large added-mass effects by coupling an immersed-boundary method with a shell finite-element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

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

Dispersion of low-density rigid particles with complex geometries is ubiquitous in both natural and industrial environments. We show that while explicit methods for coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Newton's equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Uǧis Lācis , Kunihiko Taira , Shervin Bagheri

Several recent imaging experiments access the equilibrium density profiles of interacting particles confined to a two-dimensional substrate. When these particles are in a fluid phase, we show that such data yields precise information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Ankush Sengupta , Surajit Sengupta , Gautam I. Menon

This paper presents a modified grand canonical ensemble which provides a new simple and efficient scheme to study few-body fluid-like inhomogeneous systems under confinement. The new formalism is implemented to investigate the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-30 Ignacio Urrutia , Gabriela Castelletti

Starting from a microscopic multiparticle Langevin equation, we systematically derive a hydrodynamic description in terms of density and momentum fields for chiral active particles interacting via standard repulsive and nonlocal odd forces.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-28 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Alessandro Petrini , Raphaël Maire , Lorenzo Caprini

In the preceding paper, linear response methods have been applied to obtain formally exact expressions for the parameters of Navier-Stokes order hydrodynamics. The analysis there is general, applying to both normal and granular fluids with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aparna Baskaran , James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey

The complicated dynamics of the contact line of a moving droplet on a solid substrate often hamper the efficient modeling of microfluidic systems. In particular, the selection of the effective boundary conditions, specifying the contact…

The effect of hydrodynamic interactions on the non-equilibrium stochastic dynamics of particles -- arising from the conservation of momentum in the fluid medium -- is examined in the context of the relationship between fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-02 Ramin Golestanian

We present evidence that the concurrent existence of two populations of particles with different effective diameters is not a prerequisite for the occurrence of anomalous phase behaviors in systems of particles interacting through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Santi Prestipino , Franz Saija , Gianpietro Malescio

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

The pair-distribution function, which provides information about correlations in a system of interacting particles, is one of the key objects of theoretical soft matter physics. In particular, it allows for microscopic insights into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-28 Stephan Bröker , Michael te Vrugt , Julian Jeggle , Joakim Stenhammar , Raphael Wittkowski

Interface equations are derived for both binary diffusive and binary fluid systems subjected to non-equilibrium conditions, starting from the coarse-grained (mesoscopic) models. The equations are used to describe thermo-capillary motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ravi Bhagavatula , David Jasnow , Takao Ohta

The interaction between thin structures and incompressible Newtonian fluids is ubiquitous both in nature and in industrial applications. In this paper we present an isogeometric formulation of such problems which exploits a boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Luca Heltai , Josef Kiendl , Antonio DeSimone , Alessandro Reali

We consider interacting dark matter-dark energy models arising out of a general interaction term $Q=f(\rho_{m},\rho_{d},\dot{\rho}_{m},\dot{\rho}_{d}).$ Here $f$ is a functional relation connecting the energy densities $\rho_{m}$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Subhra Bhattacharya

Excluded-volume effects can play an important role in determining transport properties in diffusion of particles. Here, the diffusion of finite-sized hard-core interacting particles in two or three dimensions is considered systematically…

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