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This research is on the nonlinear dynamics of a two-sided electrostatically actuated capacitive micro-beam. The microresonator is composed of silicon and PZT as a piezoelectric material. PZT is functionally distributed along the height of…

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We study the dynamics of an intruder moving through a fluidized granular medium in three dimensions ($d=3$). The intruder and grains have both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. The energy-dissipation mechanism is solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-28 Prasenjit Das , Sanjay Puri , Moshe Schwartz

We investigate by means of numerical simulations with nested Cartesian meshes the force exerted on a massive and luminous perturber moving at constant speed through a homogeneous and opaque gas, taking into account thermal diffusion in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 David A. Velasco Romero , Frédéric S. Masset

In this article, we present the collective dynamics of active dumbbells in the presence of a static circular obstacle using Brownian dynamics simulation. The active dumbbells aggregate on the surface of a circular obstacle beyond a critical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-12 Chandranshu Tiwari , Sunil P. Singh

We derive, from the dimensional cross-over criterion, a fundamental-measure density functional for parallel hard curved rectangles moving on a cylindrical surface. We derive it from the density functional of circular arcs of length $\sigma$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Enrique Velasco

We evaluate the torque acting on a gravitational perturber on a retrograde circular orbit in the midplane of a gaseous disk. We assume that the mass of this satellite is so low it weakly disturbs the disk (type I migration). The perturber…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , R. O. Chametla , A. Santillan

We explore the dynamics of a tracer in an active particle harmonic chain, investigating the influence of interactions. Our analysis involves calculating mean-squared displacements (MSD) and space-time correlations through Green's function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Subhajit Paul , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri

The transition between the Regular Reflection (RR) and Mach Reflection (MR) phenomenon impacts the design of the supersonic and hypersonic air-breathing vehicles. The aim of this paper is to numerically investigate the dynamic transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-01 Lubna Margha , Ahmed A. Hamada , Doyle D. Knight , Ahmed Eltaweel

A periodic perturbation generates a complicated dynamics close to separatrices and saddle points. We construct an asymptotic solution which is close to the separatrix for the unperturbed Duffing's oscillator over a long time. This solution…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-03-27 O. M. Kiselev

Multidimensional numerical simulations of a homogeneous, chemically reactive gas were used to study ignition, flame stability, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in a supersonic combustor. The configuration studied was a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-15 Gabriel B. Goodwin , Elaine S. Oran

The nature of an instability that controls the transition from static to dynamical friction is studied in the the context of an array of frictional disks that are pressed from above on a substrate. In this case the forces are all explicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Harish Charan , Joyjit Chattoraj , Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Itamar Procaccia

The dynamical backaction from a periodically driven optical or microwave cavity can reduce the damping of a mechanical resonator, leading to parametric instability accompanied by self-sustained oscillations. Fundamentally, the driving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 F. Sun , X. Dong , J. Zou , M. I. Dykman , H. B. Chan

We present the theoretical analysis of the steady state currents and density distributions of particles moving with Langevin dynamics, under the effects of an external potential displaced at constant rate. The Dynamic Density Functional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Penna , P. Tarazona

Motivated by recent studies on the dynamics of colloidal solutions in narrow channels, we consider the steady state properties of an assembly of non interacting particles subject to the action of a traveling potential moving at a constant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Pedro Tarazona , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

This paper deals with the theoretical and numerical analysis of dynamic fracture of dissimilar chain consisting of masses lined by springs. Such a structure exhibits quite different dynamic properties in comparison with a symmetrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-11 Nikolai Gorbushin , Gennady Mishuris

The dynamical friction experienced by a body moving in a gaseous medium is different from the friction in the case of a collisionless stellar system. Here we consider the orbital evolution of a gravitational perturber inside a gaseous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , A. Brandenburg

The evolution of planets, stars and even galaxies is driven, to a large extent, by dynamical friction of gravitational origin. There is now a good understanding of the friction produced by extended media, either collisionless of fluid-like.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Rodrigo Vicente , Vitor Cardoso , Miguel Zilhão

The dynamical friction force experienced by a body moving at relativistic speed in a gaseous medium is examined. This force, which arises due to the gravitational interaction of the body with its own gravitationally-induced wake, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Barausse

Odd diffusion breaks time-reversal symmetry in overdamped systems through transverse probability currents while preserving equilibrium steady states. In this work, we develop a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Iman Abdoli , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen

We study agitated frictional disks in two dimensions with the aim of developing a scaling theory for their diffusion over time. As a function of the area fraction $\phi$ and mean-square velocity fluctuations $\langle v^2\rangle$ the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-09 H. G. E. Hentschel , Itamar Procaccia , Saikat Roy