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We consider a confined sheared active polar liquid crystal with a uniform orientation and study the effect of variations in the magnitude of polarization. Restricting our analysis to one-dimensional geometries, we demonstrate that with…

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Energetic particles interact with the plasma surrounding them, resonating with certain plasma waves to stabilize them while destabilizing others, and changing the character of the background turbulence in ways that have not been fully…

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We introduce a simple model of the time evolution of a binary mixture of compressible fluids including the thermal effects. Despite its apparent simplicity, the model is thermodynamically consistent admitting an entropy balance equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Eduard Feireisl , Madalina Petcu , Bangwei She

We investigate the dynamics of plasma-based acceleration processes with collisionless particle dynamics and non negligible thermal effects. We aim at assessing the applicability of fluid-like models, obtained by suitable closure assumptions…

Through experimental investigation into the behaviour of a polar dielectric working fluid, an ideal quasi-thermodynamic cycle has been established. Particular stages of this cycle are described in terms of a condensed-matter analogue of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-18 Mark Gibbons

The paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of a class of thermodynamically consistent kinetic models for nonisothermal flows of dilute polymeric fluids, based on the identification of energy storage mechanisms and entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek , Endre Süli

The internal dynamics of active gels, both in artificial (in-vitro) model systems and inside the cytoskeleton of living cells, has been extensively studied by experiments of recent years. These dynamics are probed using tracer particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Ben Isaac , É. Fodor , P. Visco , F. van Wijland , N. S. Gov

Confined granular fluids, placed in a shallow box that is vibrated vertically, can achieve homogeneous stationary states thanks to energy injection mechanisms that take place throughout the system. These states can be stable even at high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Ricardo Brito , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations of a model for confined quasi-two-dimensional granular gases is carried out. The stability analysis is performed around the homogeneous steady state (HSS) reached eventually by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-10 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

In models of oceanic and atmospheric flows, thermodynamic functions and conservative variables may be defined up to a certain degree of arbitrariness, in the sense that, for a given set of observable quantities such as pressure and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-19 Thomas Dubos

We develop a unified kinetic theory for ordered fluids, which systematically extends the phase space with the appropriate generalized angular momenta. Our theory yields a uniquely determined mesoscopic model for any continuum with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 José A. Carrillo , Patrick E. Farrell , Andrea Medaglia , Umberto Zerbinati

The first paper of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 034103 (2023)] demonstrated that excess entropy scaling holds for both fine-grained and corresponding coarse-grained (CG) systems. Despite its universality, a more exact determination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

We show that hydrodynamic theories of polar active matter generically possess inhomogeneous traveling solutions. We introduce a unifying dynamical-system framework to establish the shape of these intrinsically nonlinear patterns, and show…

The paper deals with relationships between the individual transmembrane fluxes of binary electrolyte solution components and the experimentally measurable quantities describing rates of transfer processes, namely, the electric current, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-23 Andriy E. Yaroshchuk , Stanislaw Koter , Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk , Emiliy K. Zholkovskiy

We systematically derive an exact coarse-grained description for interacting particles with thermodynamically consistent stochastic dynamics, applicable across different observation scales, the mesoscopic and the macroscopic. We implement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

We analyze the transport properties of a low density ensemble of identical macroscopic particles immersed in an active fluid. The particles are modeled as inelastic hard spheres (granular gas). The non-homogeneous active fluid is modeled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-17 Francisco Vega Reyes , Antonio Lasanta

Based on the wormlike chain model, a coarse-grained description of the nonlinear dynamics of a weakly bending semiflexible polymer is developed. By means of a multiple scale perturbation analysis, a length-scale separation inherent to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-04 Oskar Hallatschek , Erwin Frey , Klaus Kroy

We coarse-grain a model of closely-packed ellipses that can vary their aspect ratio to derive continuum equations for materials comprising confluent deformable particles such as epithelial cell layers. We show that contractile nearest…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-14 Mehrana R. Nejad , Julia M Yeomans

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

Sufficiently dense intrinsically out-of-equilibrium suspensions, such as those observed in biological systems, can be modelled as active fluids characterised by their orientational symmetry. While mesoscale numerical approaches to active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-10 Oleksandr Baziei , Benjamín Loewe , Tyler N. Shendruk