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In a wide range of applications, the estimate of droplet evaporation time is based on the classical d2-law, which, assuming a fast mixing and fixed environmental properties, states that the droplet surface decreases linearly with time at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 Federico Dalla Barba , Jietuo Wang , Francesco Picano

In this communication we analyze the behavior of excited drops contained in spherical volumes. We study different properties of the dynamical systems i.e. the maximum Lyapunov exponent MLE, the asymptotic distance in momentum space…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ison , P. Balenzuela , A. Bonasera , C. O. Dorso

Water evaporation is critically important for hydrogels in open-air applications, but theoretically modeling is difficult due to the complicated intermolecular interactions and sustained deformation. In this work, we construct a simplified…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Zehua Yu , Yongshun Ren , Kang Liu

A sheet of glassy polymers placed in a solvent shows swelling behaviors quite different from that of soft polymers (rubbers and gels). (1) Non-Fickian diffusion (called case II diffusion): As solvent permeates into the sample, a sharp front…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-27 Peihan Lyu , Zhaoyu Ding , Masao Doi , Xingkun Man

We present a unified scaling theory for the dynamics of monomers for dilute solutions of semiflexible polymers under good solvent conditions in the free draining limit. Our theory encompasses the well-known regimes of mean square…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Aiqun Huang , Ramesh Adhikari , Aniket Bhattacharya , Kurt Binder

We studied the single dimer dynamics in a lattice diffusive model as a function of particle density in the high densification regime. The mean square displacement is found to be subdiffusive both in one and two dimensions. The spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fusco , P. Gallo , A. Petri , M. Rovere

In the present work, crystallization in melts and poor-solvent solutions of semiflexible polymers with different concentration was studied by means of dissipative particle dynamics simulation technique. We use a coarse-grained polymer model…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 P. I. Kos , V. A. Ivanov , A. V. Chertovich

The dynamics of polymer decompression, i.e., a process from compressed, compact state to the relaxed swoll en conformation, can be formally described as a {\it nonlinear diffusion}. We discuss here two basic examples: (i) the expansion, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Takahiro Sakaue , Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

Elastic models of the glass transition relate the relaxation dynamics and the elastic properties of structural glasses. They are based on the assumption that the relaxation dynamics occurs through activated events in the energy landscape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-20 M. Pica Ciamarra , Peter Sollich

We extend beyond the Euler scales the hydrodynamic theory for quantum and classical integrable models developed in recent years, accounting for diffusive dynamics and local entropy production. We review how the diffusive scale can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jacopo De Nardis , Denis Bernard , Benjamin Doyon

Phase field models for two-phase flow with a surfactant soluble in possibly both fluids are derived from balance equations and an energy inequality so that thermodynamic consistency is guaranteed. Via a formal asymptotic analysis, they are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Björn Stinner

Experimental results from mechanical viscoelastic as well as dielectric relaxation times were compared to theoretical expectations utilizing polymer scaling theory. Viscoelastic relaxation of a hydrogel at 33% relative humidity fabricated…

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A method of simulating the drying process of a soft matter solution with an implicit solvent model by moving the liquid-vapor interface is applied to various solution films and droplets. For a solution of a polymer and nanoparticles, we…

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Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt-RL) has become the standard approach to RL due to its beneficial exploration properties. Traditionally, policies are parameterized using Gaussian distributions, which significantly limits their…

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We show that the standard discrete update rule of transformer layers can be naturally interpreted as a forward Euler discretization of a continuous dynamical system. Our Transformer Flow Approximation Theorem demonstrates that, under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jacob Fein-Ashley

The partial differential equations describing compressible fluid flows can be notoriously difficult to resolve on a pragmatic scale and often require the use of high performance computing systems and/or accelerators. However, these systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anthony S. Walker , Kyle E. Niemeyer

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

The behavior of polymers in combined flow and electric fields underlies many manufacturing processes but remains poorly understood. To address this, we model charged polymers across scales. We extend the original Rouse model for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-22 Zachary Wolfgram , Jeffrey G. Ethier , Matthew Grasinger

Active fluids exhibit complex turbulent-like flows at low Reynolds number. Recent work predicted that 2d active nematic turbulence follows universal scaling laws. However, experimentally testing these predictions is conditioned by the…