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Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), a new formulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

We consider a two-dimensional motion of a thin film flowing down an inclined plane under the influence of the gravity and the surface tension. In order to investigate the stability of such flow, it is hard to treat the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Hiroki Ueno , Akinori Shiraishi , Tatsuo Iguchi

Deep generative models that produce novel molecular structures have the potential to facilitate chemical discovery. Flow matching is a recently proposed generative modeling framework that has achieved impressive performance on a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ian Dunn , David R. Koes

We examine the dynamics of a thin film formed by a distributed liquid source on a vertical solid wall. The model is derived using the lubrication approximation and includes the effects of gravity, upward airflow and surface tension. When…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yadong Ruan , Ali Nadim , Marina Chugunova

A novel, particle based, probabilistic approach for the simulation of cloud microphysics is proposed, which is named the Super-Droplet Method (SDM). This method enables accurate simulation of cloud microphysics with less demanding cost in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Shin-ichiro Shima , Kanya Kusano , Akio Kawano , Tooru Sugiyama , Shintaro Kawahara

We investigate the descent of a single droplet on a vertical fiber and its role in generating additional droplets. As the droplet slides, it deposits a non-uniform liquid film whose thickness decreases along the fiber. The thicker portion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-22 J. Van Hulle , N. Vandewalle , Z. Pan

In this paper we introduce 1-$D$ and 2-$D$ discrete models for the dynamic granular matter formation process in the form of a system of difference equations. This approach allows us to differentiate between the influx of the rolling layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Alexander Khapalov , Sergey Lapin

We have studied the breakup and subsequent fluid flow in very thin films of partially wetting liquid on solid substrates, using molecular dynamics simulations. The liquid is made of short chain molecules interacting with Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Joel Koplik , Jayanth R. Banavar

The morphological paths towards equilibrium droplets during the late stages of the dewetting process of a liquid film from a liquid substrate is investigated experimentally and theoretically. As liquids, short chained polystyrene (PS) and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-07 Stefan Bommer , Sebastian Jachalski , Dirk Peschka , Ralf Seemann , Barbara Wagner

We report on the numerical implementation of thin film equations that describe the capillary-driven evolution of viscous films, in two-dimensional configurations. After recalling the general forms and features of these equations, we focus…

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) typically relies on movies containing hundreds or thousands of frames to accurately quantify motion in soft matter systems. Using movies much shorter in duration produces noisier and less accurate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-05 Gildardo Martinez , Justin Siu , Steven Dang , Dylan Gage , Emma Kao , Juan Carlos Avila , Ruilin You , Ryan McGorty

When a liquid film lies on a non-wettable substrate, the configuration is unstable and the film then retracts from a solid substrate to form droplets. This phenomenon, known as dewetting, commonly leads to undesirable morphological changes.…

The rich structures arising from the impingement dynamics of water drops onto solid substrates at high velocities are investigated numerically. Current methodologies in the aircraft industry estimating water collection on aircraft surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-04 Radu Cimpeanu , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Plants and insects use slender conical structures to transport and collect small droplets, which are propelled along the conical structures due to capillary action. These droplets can deposit a fluid film during their motion, but despite…

We provide a basic method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate liquid droplet with surface tension in three dimensions. Liquid droplet is a simple case for surface tension modeling. Surface tension works only on fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-17 Hanifa Terissa , Agra Barecasco , Christian Fredy Naa

The discrete element method (DEM) coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), has been developed to simulate complex solid-fluid flow systems. Today, DEM is regarded as an established approach, with extensive applications in industrial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Toshiki Imatani , Mikio Sakai

We discuss a thin film evolution equation for a wetting evaporating liquid on a smooth solid substrate. The model is valid for slowly evaporating small sessile droplets when thermal effects are insignificant, while wettability and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-11 Desislava Todorova , Uwe Thiele , Len M. Pismen

Small-scale liquid flows on solid surfaces provide convincing details in liquid animation, but they are difficult to be simulated with efficiency and fidelity, mostly due to the complex nature of the surface tension at the contact front…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Rajaditya Mukherjee , Qingyang Li , Zhili Chen , Shicheng Chu , Huamin Wang

We study the behavior of very thin liquid films wetting homogeneous planar and spherical substrates. In order to describe a simple fluid at very small scales, we employ a classical density functional theory (DFT). Here, we model a fluid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 Andreas Nold