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Nuclear Clusters (NCs) are common stellar systems in the centres of galaxies. Yet, the physical mechanisms involved in their formation are still debated. Using a parsec-resolution hydrodynamical simulation of a dwarf galaxy, we propose an…

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We present results of fully self-consistent N-body simulations of the motion of four globular clusters moving in the inner region of their parent galaxy. With regard to previous simplified simulations, we confirm merging and formation of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-13 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Miocchi

The thermodynamics and kinetics of crystallization of nanoparticles, as opposed to bulk phases, may be influenced by surface and size effects. We investigate the importance of such factors in the crystallization process of gold, silver, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-09 Arthur France-Lanord , Sarath Menon , Julien Lam

Recent observations show that small, young, stellar groupings of ~10 to 40 members tend of have a centrally-located most massive member, reminiscent of mass segregation seen in large clustered systems. Here, we analyze hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Helen Kirk , Stella S. R. Offner , Kayla Redmond

We report on the construction of a granular network of particles to study the formation, evolution and statistical properties of clusters of particles developing at the vicinity of a liquid-solid-like phase transition within a vertically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-25 Enrique Navarro , Claudio Falcón

To elucidate the atomistic diffusion mechanism responsible for the rapid diffusion in alkali halide nano particles, called Spontaneous Mixing, we execute molecular dynamics simulations with empirical models for KCl-KBr, NaCl-NaBr, RbCl-RbBr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 Tomoaki Niiyama , Shin-ichi Sawada , Kensuke S. Ikeda , Yasushi Shimizu

We present numerical simulations to describe the nucleosynthesis and evolution of pre-Galactic clouds in a model which is motivated by cold dark matter simulations of hierarchical galaxy formation. We adopt a SN-induced star-formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Saleh , T. C. Beers , G. J. Mathews

The growth of iron-containing nanostructures in the process of focused electron beam-induced deposition (FEBID) of Fe(CO)$_5$ is studied by means of atomistic irradiation-driven molecular dynamics (IDMD) simulations. The geometrical…

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Structural and dynamical characteristics pertaining to the solvation of an excess proton in liquid-like nanoclusters of the type [H$_2$O]$_n$ are investigated using Molecular Dynamics experiments. Three different aggregate sizes were…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Mariano Galvagno , Daniel Laria , Javier Rodriguez

We study the evolution of embedded clusters. The equations of motion of the stars in the cluster are solved by direct N-body integration while taking the effects of stellar evolution and the hydrodynamics of the natal gas content into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. I. Pelupessy , S. Portegies Zwart

It is still on open question to what degree the cluster environment influences the sizes of protoplanetary discs surrounding young stars. Particularly so for the short-lived clusters typical for the solar neighbourhood in which the stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-31 Kirsten Vincke , Susanne Pfalzner

With numerical simulations of the mW model of water, we investigate the energetic stability of crystalline clusters for both Ice I (cubic and hexagonal ice) and for the metastable Ice 0 phase as a function of the cluster size. Under a large…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-04 Fabio Leoni , Rui Shi , Hajime Tanaka , John Russo

We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the nucleation of water vapor in order to test nucleation theories. Simulations were performed for a wide range of supersaturation ratios (S = 3-25) and water temperatures (Tw=300-390K).…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kyoko K. Tanaka , Akio Kawano , Hidekazu Tanaka

Evolution with mass segregation and the evolution of the rotation of cores are both discussed for self-similar core collapse. Evolution with angular velocity proportional to the square root of the density is predicted. On the Dynamical Main…

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We present high resolution ($1024^3$) simulations of super-/hyper-sonic isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence inside an interstellar molecular cloud (resolving scales of typically 20 -- 100 AU), including a multi-disperse population of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Lars Mattsson , Akshay Bhatnagar , Fred A. Gent , Beatriz Villarroel

Ice sintering is a form of metamorphism that drives the microstructural evolution of an aggregate of grains through surface and volume diffusion. This leads to an increase in the grain-to-grain contact area ("neck") and density of the…

A predictive model for nanoparticle nucleation has not yet been successfully achieved. Classical nucleation theory fails because the atomistic nature of the seed has to be considered since geometrical structure as well as stoichiometry do…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Julien Lam , David Amans , Christophe Dujardin , Gilles Ledoux , Abdul-Rahman Allouche

Theory and simulations suggest that magnetic fields from radio jets and lobes powered by their central super massive black holes can be an important source of magnetic fields in the galaxy clusters. This is paper II in a series of studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

Surface nanobubbles are complex micro- and nanoscale fluid systems. While thermodynamics is believed to dominate nanobubble dynamics, the precise mechanism by which nanobubble evolution is driven by thermodynamics remains unclear. It is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-06 Lili Lan , Yongcai Pan , Liang Zhao , Binghai Wen

The critical radius of a core-shell-type nucleus grown by diffusion in a phase-separated solution is studied. A {\it kinetic} critical radius rather than the {\it thermodynamic} critical radius of standard classical nucleation theory can be…

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