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This paper describes a modification of Ehlers' model for the inelastic behavior of granular media. The modified model can be applied for describing the inelastic behavior of porous media. The key feature is a subtle change of the yield…

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We investigate the influence of curvature and topology on crystalline wrinkling patterns in generic elastic bilayers. Our numerical analysis predicts that the total number of defects created by adiabatic compression exhibits universal…

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A thermodynamically consistent visco-elastodynamical model at finite strains is derived that also allows for inelasticity (like plasticity or creep), thermal coupling, and poroelasticity with diffusion. The theory is developed in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Alexander Mielke , Tomáš Roubíček

In this paper, we introduce a methodology applicable to a wide range of localized two-dimensional sources of stress. This methodology is based on a geometric formulation of elasticity. Localized sources of stress are viewed as singular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-20 Michael Moshe , Eran Sharon , Raz Kupferman

A coarse grained description of a two phase fluid is used to study the steady state configuration of the interface separating the coexisting phases, and the motion of the contact line at which the interface intersects a solid boundary. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsuan-Yi Chen , David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

In this paper, we introduce a novel unfitted finite element method to solve the quad-curl interface problem. We adapt Nitsche's method for curlcurl-conforming elements and double the degrees of freedom on interface elements. To ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Hailong Guo , Mingyan Zhang , Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

Static friction induced by moir\'e superstructure in twisted incommensurate finite layered material interfaces reveals unique double periodicity and lack of scaling with contact size. The underlying mechanism involves compensation of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Weidong Yan , Xiang Gao , Wengen Ouyang , Ze Liu , Oded Hod , Michael Urbakh

The variation of energies associated with soft matter interfaces where surface inhomogeneities are present. These energies include the total bending and splay energy, the variable surface tension energy, a coupling energy between the total…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-02 Prerna Gera , David Salac

Soft solids in fluids find wide range of applications in science and engineering, especially in the study of biological tissues and membranes. In this study, an Eulerian finite volume approach has been developed to simulate fully resolved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Suhas S. Jain , Ken Kamrin , Ali Mani

A phase-field approach is proposed for interface failure between two possibly dissimilar materials. The discrete adhesive interface is regularised over a finite width. Due to the use of a regularised crack model for the bulk material, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-06 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , René de Borst , Paul Hennig , Markus Kästner

We study equilibrium configurations for the Euler-Plateau energy with elastic modulus, which couples an energy functional of Euler-Plateau type with a total curvature term often present in models for the free energy of biomembranes. It is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Anthony Gruber , Álvaro Pámpano , Magdalena Toda

A general approach for transforming phase field equations into generalized curvilinear coordinates is proposed in this work. The proposed transformation can be applied to isotropic, non-isotropic, and curvilinear grids without adding any…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Henry Collis , Shahab Mirjalili , Ali Mani

We use conformal maps to study a free boundary problem for a two-fluid electromechanical system, where the interface between the fluids is determined by the combined effects of electrostatic forces, gravity and surface tension. The free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stuart Kent , Shankar C. Venkataramani

We develop a general incremental framework for hyperelastic solids whose surfaces exhibit both stretch-dependent and curvature-dependent elastic behavior. Building upon a variational formulation of curvature-dependent surface elasticity, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Xiang Yu , Michal Šmejkal , Martin Horák

We present a model for cell growth, division and packing under soft constraints that arise from the deformability of the cells as well as of a membrane that encloses them. Our treatment falls within the framework of diffuse interface…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-09 J. Jiang , K. Garikipati , S. Rudraraju

We prove that there are stationary solutions to the 2D incompressible free boundary Euler equations with two fluids, possibly with a small gravity constant, that feature a splash singularity. More precisely, in the solutions we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Diego Cordoba , Alberto Enciso , Nastasia Grubic

We study a one-dimensional interacting topological model by means of exact diagonalization method. The topological properties are firstly examined with the existence of the edge states at half-filling. We find that the topological phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Huaiming Guo , Shun-Qing Shen

We discuss the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two partly miscible viscous Newtonian fluids of different densities, when a certain parameter \epsilon>0 related to the interface thickness tends to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Helmut Abels , Daniel Lengeler

The semi-implicit (partly decoupled, also called staggered or fraction-step) time discretization is applied to compressible nonlinear dynamical models of viscoelastic solids in the Eulerian description, i.e.\ in the actual deforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Tomáš Roubíček

We suggest a novel shape matching algorithm for three-dimensional surface meshes of disk or sphere topology. The method is based on the physical theory of nonlinear elasticity and can hence handle large rotations and deformations.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Konrad Simon , Sameer Sheorey , David Jacobs , Ronen Basri