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A family of the so-called Maxwell times which arises in the contexto of Higher-Order Generalized Hydrodynamics (also called Mesoscopic Hydro-Thermodynamics) is evidenced. This is done in the framework of a HOGH build within a statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-02 Clóves G. Rodrigues , Carlos A. B. Silva , José G. Ramos , Roberto Luzzi

We propose thermodynamically consistent models for viscoelastic fluids with a stress diffusion term. In particular, we derive variants of compressible/incompressible Maxwell/Oldroyd-B models with a stress diffusion term in the evolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Josef Málek , Vít Průša , Tomáš Skřivan , Endre Süli

Oscillatory shear tests are widely used in rheology to characterize the linear and non-linear mechanical response of complex fluids, including the yielding transition. There is an increasing urge to acquire detailed knowledge of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Paolo Edera , Matteo Brizioli , Giuliano Zanchetta , George Petekidis , Fabio Giavazzi , Roberto Cerbino

We investigate the steady uniform shear flow of a granular gas composed of inelastic and rough Maxwell particles. Exploiting the mean-field character of the model, we derive exact expressions for the collisional production rates of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrés Santos , Gilberto M. Kremer

The paper studies a higher-order diffusion model of Maxwell-Stefan kind. The model is based upon higher-order moment equations of kinetic theory of mixtures, which include viscous dissipation in the model. Governing equations are analyzed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Bérénice Grec , Srboljub Simic

We introduce a comprehensive scheme to physically quantify both viscous and elastic rheological nonlinearities simultaneously, using an imposed large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) strain. The new framework naturally lends a physical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-18 Randy H. Ewoldt , Gareth H. McKinley , A. E. Hosoi

We discuss the decomposition of the tensorial relaxation function for isotropic and transversely isotropic Modified Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic models. We show how to formulate the constitutive equation by using a convenient decomposition of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-20 Valentina Balbi , Tom Shearer , William J Parnell

In this work we study the rheological features of yield stress materials that exhibit non-homogeneous steady flows and that are subjected to an additional mechanical noise. Using a mesoscale elasto-plastic model accounting for a viscosity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-08 Magali Le Goff , Eric Bertin , Kirsten Martens

Constitutive laws relate fluid stress to deformation and underpin predictions of non-Newtonian behavior in industrial and biological fluids. Standard characterization relies on measurements in idealized flows that often miss physics…

We solve exactly and describe in detail a simplified scalar model for the low frequency shear rheology of foams, emulsions, slurries, etc. [P. Sollich, F. Lequeux, P. Hebraud, M.E. Cates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2020 (1997)]. The model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Sollich

We report on the stress response of gyroidal and lamellar amphiphilic mesophases to steady shear simulated using a bottom-up lattice-Boltzmann model for amphiphilic fluids and sliding periodic (Lees-Edwards) boundary conditions. We study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nelido Gonzalez-Segredo , Jens Harting , Giovanni Giupponi , Peter V. Coveney

This paper is concerned with the time-dependent Maxwell's equations for a plane interface between a negative material described by the Drude model and the vacuum, which fill, respectively, two complementary half-spaces. In a first paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Maxence Cassier , Christophe Hazard , Patrick Joly

Considering the rheology of two-dimensional soft suspensions above the jamming density, we derive a tensorial constitutive model from the microscopic particle dynamics. Starting from the equation governing the $N$-particle distribution, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Nicolas Cuny , Romain Mari , Eric Bertin

This article presents stability and convergence analyses of subgrid multiscale stabilized finite element formulation of non-Newtonian power-law fluid flow model strongly coupled with variable coefficients Advection-Diffusion-Reaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Manisha Chowdhury , B. V. Rathish Kumar

Weakly nonlinear amplitude equations are derived for the onset of spatially extended patterns on a general class of n-component bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems in a ball, under the assumption of linear kinetics in the bulk and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-27 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Davide Cusseddu , Anotida Madzvamuse

Modeling time-harmonic Maxwell problems in heterogeneous media presents significant mathematical and computational challenges. Due to the inherent non-elliptic structure and non-coercive nature of Maxwell equations, conventional methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Xiang Zhong , Eric T. Chung , Xingguang Jin

The theory of evolving natural configurations is an effective technique to model dissipative processes. In this paper, we use this theory to revisit nonlinear constitutive models of viscoelastic solids. Particularly, a Maxwell and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-08 Tarun Singh , Sandipan Paul

We study a one-dimensional equation arising in the multiscale modeling of some non-Newtonian fluids. At a given shear rate, the equation provides the instantaneous mesoscopic response of the fluid, allowing to compute the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 David Benoit , Claude Le Bris , Tony Lelièvre

We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…

We investigate the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of a colloidal dispersion at the critical gel state using large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) rheology. The colloidal gel at the critical point is subjected to oscillatory shear flow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Khushboo Suman , Sachin Shanbhag , Yogesh M. Joshi