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We present a continuum theory to describe elastically induced phase transitions between coherent solid phases. In the limit of vanishing elastic constants in one of the phases, the model can be used to describe fracture on the basis of the…

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The process of programmed cell death, namely apoptosis, is a natural mechanism that regulates healthy tissue, multicellular structures, and homeostasis. An improved understanding of apoptosis can significantly enhance our knowledge of…

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For the study of complex synthetic and biological molecular systems by computer simulations one is still restricted to simple model systems or to by far too small time scales. To overcome this problem multiscale techniques are being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Praprotnik , Kurt Kremer , Luigi Delle Site

We apply the complex scaling method to the calculation of scattering phase shifts and extract the contributions of resonances in a phase shift and a cross section. The decomposition of the phase shift is shown to be useful to understand the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Myagmarjav Odsuren , Kiyoshi Kato , Masayuki Aikawa , Takayuki Myo

The use of machine learning algorithms to investigate phase transitions in physical systems is a valuable way to better understand the characteristics of these systems. Neural networks have been used to extract information of phases and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rodrigo Carmo Terin , Zochil González Arenas , Roberto Santana

Despite its critical role in the study of earthquake processes, numerical simulation of the entire stages of fault rupture remains a formidable task. The main challenges in simulating a fault rupture process include complex evolution of…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Fan Fei , Md Shumon Mia , Ahmed E. Elbanna , Jinhyun Choo

This is the second paper of a three-part work the main aim of which is to provide a unified consistent framework for the phase-field modelling of cohesive fracture. Building on the theoretical foundations of the first paper, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Roberto Alessi , Francesco Colasanto , Matteo Focardi

A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Makiko Nonomura

Modeling of dynamic processes in nuclear reactors is carried out, mainly, on the basis of the multigroup diffusion approximation for the neutron flux. The basic model includes a multidimensional set of coupled parabolic equations and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Alexander V. Avvakumov , Valery F. Strizhov , Petr N. Vabishchevich , Alexander O. Vasilev

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

A digital quantum simulation for the extended Agassi model is proposed using a quantum platform with eight trapped ions. The extended Agassi model is an analytically solvable model including both short range pairing and long range…

We consider the problem of heterogeneous nucleation and growth. The system is described by a phase field model in which the temperature is included through thermal noise. We show that this phase field approach is suitable to describe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Castro

Accurate numerical simulation of coupled fracture/fault deformation and fluid flow is crucial to the performance and safety assessment of many subsurface systems. In this work, we consider the discretization and enforcement of contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Andrea Franceschini , Nicola Castelletto , Joshua A. White , Hamdi A. Tchelepi

Reconstruction of an object from points cloud is essential in prosthetics, medical imaging, computer vision, etc. We present an effective algorithm for an Allen--Cahn-type model of reconstruction, employing the Lagrange multiplier approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Renjun Gao , Xiangjie Kong , Dongting Cai , Boyi Fu , Junxiang Yang

We present an adaptive scheme for isogeometric phase-field modeling, to perform suitably graded hierarchical refinement and coarsening on both single- and multi-patch geometries by considering truncated hierarchical spline constructions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Cesare Bracco , Carlotta Giannelli , Alessandro Reali , Michele Torre , Rafael Vázquez

In this paper, phase field models are developed for multi-component vesicle membranes with different lipid compositions and membranes with free boundary. These models are used to simulate the deformation of membranes under the elastic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaoqiang Wang , Qiang Du

In this work, we introduce a new Hybrid High-Order method for the numerical simulation of fracture propagation based on phase-field models. The proposed method supports general meshes made of polygonal/polyhedral elements, which provides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Alessandra Crippa , Julien Coatléven , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Nicolas Guy , Yousef Soleiman

We develop a numerical approach to reconstruct the phase dynamics of driven or coupled self-sustained oscillators. Employing a simple algorithm for computation of the phase of a perturbed system, we construct numerically the equation for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Michael Rosenblum , Arkady Pikovsky

Characterizing the phase space distribution of particle beams in accelerators is a central part of accelerator understanding and performance optimization. However, conventional reconstruction-based techniques either use simplifying…