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Accurate property characterization is a major bottleneck in materials design. While first-principles methods and task-specific machine-learning models have driven important progress, they remain fundamentally limited in scalability and…

The dynamics of frictional interfaces play an important role in many physical systems spanning a broad range of scales. It is well-known that frictional interfaces separating two dissimilar materials couple interfacial slip and normal…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Michael Aldam , Yohai Bar-Sinai , Ilya Svetlizky , Efim A. Brener , Jay Fineberg , Eran Bouchbinder

Friction dissipates a substantial portion of global energy, motivating the pursuit of superlubricity, a state of near-zero friction, in real-world systems. Conventional approaches rely on crystalline lattice mismatch to suppress periodic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Wan Wang , Zijun Ding , Panpan Li , Wanying Ying , Hongxuan Li , Xiaohong Liu , Huidi Zhou , Jianmin Chen , Wengen Ouyang , Li Ji

The microscopic origin of friction has been the goal of several theoretical studies in the last decades. Depending on the investigated systems or models, on the simulation techniques or conditions, different and somewhat contradictory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Maria Luján Iglesias , Sebastián Gonçalves

This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In conventional fluid mechanics, the chemical composition and thermodynamic state of a fluid-solid interface are not considered when establishing velocity-field boundary conditions. As a consequence, fluid simulations are usually not able…

We introduce an approach to exploit the existence of multiple levels of description of a physical system to radically accelerate the determination of thermodynamic quantities. We first give a proof of principle of the method using two…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 T. D. Engeness , T. A. Arias

Nanoscaled friction is a fundamental tribological phenomenon with complex behavior of its dynamical force. Here, we utilize the Prandtl-Tomlinson framework to investigate systematically the different means of control of the frictional force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

Structural superlubricity, one of the most important concepts in modern tribology, has attracted lots of interest in both fundamental research and practical applications. However, the underlying model, known as the Prandtl-Tomlinson (PT)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Weichao Zheng

An overview of computer simulations of tribology is presented. The chapter begins with a brief overview of simulation techniques and the special requirements for simulations of tribological processes. Then simple one-dimensional models of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark O. Robbins , Martin H. Müser

Hydrogen embrittlement in metals is strongly governed by hydrogen diffusion and trapping, yet predicting these effects in polycrystalline systems remains challenging. This work introduces a multiscale modeling framework that links atomistic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Bhanuj Jain , Alaa Olleak , Junyan He , Adarsh Chaurasia , Davide Di Stefano

This Letter introduces an approach for precisely designing surface friction properties using a conditional generative machine learning model, specifically a diffusion denoising probabilistic model (DDPM). We created a dataset of synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Even Marius Nordhagen , Henrik Andersen Sveinsson , Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

We propose a new conceptual approach to reach unattained dissipative properties based on the friction of slender concentric sliding columns. We begin by searching for the optimal topology in the simplest telescopic system of two concentric…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 G. Puglisi , N. M. Pugno

Thermal fluctuations cause perturbations of fluid-fluid interfaces and highly nonlinear hydrodynamics in multiphase flows. In this work, we develop a novel multiphase smoothed dissipative particle dynamics model. This model accounts for…

Hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles confined between two parallel planar walls are studied under creeping-flow conditions. The many-particle friction matrix in this system is evaluated using our novel numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

A multiscale theory of interacting continuum mechanics and thermodynamics of mixtures of fluids, electrodynamics, polarization and magnetization is proposed. The mechanical (reversible) part of the theory is constructed in a purely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Petr Vagner , Michal Pavelka , Ogul Esen

Friction is the basic, ubiquitous mechanical interaction between two surfaces that results in resistance to motion and energy dissipation. In spite of its technological and economic significance, our ability to control friction remains…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Dorian Gangloff , Alexei Bylinskii , Ian Counts , Wonho Jhe , Vladan Vuletić

A three-dimensional Multiphysics Lattice Discrete Particle Model (M-LDPM) framework is formulated to investigate the fracture permeability behavior of shale. The framework features a dual lattice system mimicking the mesostructure of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 Weixin Li , Xinwei Zhou , J. William Carey , Luke P. Frash , Gianluca Cusatis

This paper presents an analytical study about the behavior of arbitrary shaped and sized non-cohesive two-dimensional granular materials. Several mechanical properties and relations are unraveled by connecting micro and macro scales in an…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 Alex X. Jerves , José E. Andrade

Using an adiabatic approximation method, which searches for Tomlinson model-like instabilities for a simple but still realistic model for two crystalline surfaces in the extremely light contact limit, with mobile molecules present at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Daly , J. Zhang , J. B. Sokoloff