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We analyze the equilibrium spatial distribution of surface temperatures of patterned surfaces. The surface is exposed to a constant external heat flux and has a fixed internal temperature that is coupled to the outside heat fluxes by finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Thorsten Emig

We show that the ion beam induced incompressible amorphous solid flow in terms of advection transport mechanism leads to the erosion and deposition of atoms at the amorphous/crystalline (a/c) interface resulting in the formation of pattern…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-02-25 Tanuj Kumar , D. C. Agarwal , S. A. Khan , N. P. Lalla , D. Kanjilal

Particle diffusion in a two dimensional curved surface embedded in $R_3$ is considered. In addition to the usual diffusion flow, we find a new flow with an explicit curvature dependence. New diffusion equation is obtained in $\epsilon$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Naohisa Ogawa

Shells, when confined, can deform in a broad assortment of shapes and patterns, often quite dissimilar to what is produced by their flat counterparts (plates). In this work we discuss the morphological landscape of shells deposited on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-12 Octavio Albarrán , Desislava V. Todorova , Eleni Katifori , Lucas Goehring

We consider reaction-diffusion equations on a thick curved surface and obtain a set of effective R-D equation to ${\cal O}(\epsilon^2)$, where $\epsilon$ is the surface thickness. We observe that the R-D systems on these curved surfaces can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-10 Sankaran Nampoothiri

Turing patterns emerge from a spatially uniform state following a linear instability driven by diffusion. Features of the eventual pattern (stabilized by non-linearities) are already present in the initial unstable modes. On a uniform flat…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-31 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Henry Shackleton

Controlling the spatial distribution of liquid droplets on surfaces via surface energy patterning can be used to control material delivery to specified regions via selective liquid/solid wetting. While studies of the equilibrium shape of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary S. Grest , David R. Heine , Edmund B. Webb

This work focuses on dynamics arising from reaction-diffusion equations , where the profile of propagation is no longer characterized by a single front, but by a layer of several fronts which we call a propagating terrace. This means,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Thomas Giletti , Hiroshi Matano

No surface is perfectly planar at all scales. The notion of flatness of a surface therefore depends on the size of the probe used to observe it. As a consequence rough interfaces are abundant in nature. Here the old, but still active field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ingve Simonsen

We study static and dynamical properties that distinguish two dimensional crystals constrained to lie on a curved substrate from their flat space counterparts. A generic mechanism of dislocation unbinding in the presence of varying Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-12 Vincenzo Vitelli , Julius B. Lucks , David R. Nelson

The theory of patterns formation for a reaction-diffusion system defined on a multiplex is developed by means of a perturbative approach. The intra-layer diffusion constants act as small parameter in the expansion and the unperturbed state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Malbor Asllani , Daniel M. Busiello , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Gwendoline Planchon

We consider a numerical approach for a covariant generalised Navier-Stokes equation on general surfaces and study the influence of varying Gaussian curvature on anomalous vortex-network active turbulence. This regime is characterised by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-03 M. Rank , A. Voigt

It is known from both experiments and molecular dynamics simulations that chemically patterning a solid surface has an effect on the flow of an adjacent liquid. This fact is in stark contrast with predictions of classical fluid mechanics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-17 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

Soft and biological matter come in a variety of shapes and geometries. When soft surfaces that do not fit into each other due to a mismatch in Gaussian curvatures form an interface, beautiful geometry-induced patterns emerge. In this paper,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-05 Aashna Chawla , Deepak Kumar

A nonrelativistic quantum mechanical particle moving freely on a curved surface feels the effect of the nontrivial geometry of the surface through the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian, which is proportional to the Laplace-Beltrami operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Neslihan Oflaz , Ali Mostafazadeh , Mehrdad Ahmady

Mechanisms of pattern formation---of which the Turing instability is an archetype---constitute an important class of dynamical processes occurring in biological, ecological and chemical systems. Recently, it has been shown that the Turing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Sayat Mimar , Mariamo Mussa Juane , Juyong Park , Alberto P. Munuzuri , Gourab Ghoshal

Curvature plays a central organizational role in active polymer dynamics. Using large-scale Langevin-dynamics simulations, we study active semiflexible filaments confined to smooth curved surfaces and map how curvature, bending rigidity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-18 Giulia Janzen , Euan D. Mackay , Rastko Sknepnek , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez

The problem of pattern formation in a generic two species reaction--diffusion model is studied, under the hypothesis that only one species can diffuse. For such a system, the classical Turing instability cannot take place. At variance, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-16 Laura Cantini , Claudia Cianci , Duccio Fanelli , Emma Massi , Luigi Barletti

A nonrelativistic scalar particle that is constrained to move on an asymptotically flat curved surface undergoes a geometric scattering that is sensitive to the mean and Gaussian curvatures of the surface. A careful study of possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Hai Viet Bui , Ali Mostafazadeh

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke