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Odd diffusion breaks time-reversal symmetry in overdamped systems through transverse probability currents while preserving equilibrium steady states. In this work, we develop a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for dense…

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The problem of a spatially discontinuous diffusion coefficient ($D(\boldsymbol x)$) is one that may be encountered in hydrogeologic systems due to natural geological features or as a consequence of numerical discretization of flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 Michael J. Schmidt , Nicholas B. Engdahl , Stephen D. Pankavich , Diogo Bolster

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

In this paper we formulate a nonlocal density functional theory of inhomogeneous water. We model a water molecule as a couple of oppositely charged sites. The negatively charged sites interact with each other through the Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov

Site density functional theory (SDFT) provides a rigorous framework for statistical mechanics analysis of inhomogeneous molecular liquids. The key defining feature of these systems is the presence of two very distinct interactions scales…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-24 Gennady N. Chuev , Marina V. Fedotova , Marat Valiev

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Motivated by recent studies on the dynamics of colloidal solutions in narrow channels, we consider the steady state properties of an assembly of non interacting particles subject to the action of a traveling potential moving at a constant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Pedro Tarazona , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful framework to study inhomogeneous fluids. Its standard form is based on the knowledge of a generating free energy functional. If this is known exactly, then the results obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , A. Sharma , J. M. Brader

Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) is a promising approach for predicting the structural evolution of a drying suspension containing one or more types of colloidal particles. The assumed free-energy functional is a key component of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Mayukh Kundu , Michael P. Howard

Multiscale plasmonic systems e.g. extended metallic nanostructures with sub-nanometer inter-distances) play a key role in the development of next-generation nano-photonic devices. An accurate modeling of the optical interactions in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Cristian Ciracì , Fabio Della Sala

We develop a lattice gas model for the drying of droplets of a nanoparticle suspension on a planar surface, using dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) to describe the time evolution of the solvent and nanoparticle density profiles.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-03 C. Chalmers , R. Smith , A. J. Archer

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

Diffusion model deployment has been suffering from high energy consumption and inference latency despite its superior performance in visual generation tasks. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) offers a promising solution to…

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Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 W. R. C. Somerville , J. L. Stokes , A. M. Adawi , T. S. Horozov , A. J. Archer , D. M. A. Buzza

We investigate interfacial fluid dynamics and heat transfer at nanoscales using an improved diffuse interface approach for liquid-vapor interfaces in non-equilibrium. Conventional Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) formulations often fail to…

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We present the detailed analysis of the diffusive transport of spatially inhomogeneous fluid mixtures and the interplay between structural and dynamical properties varying on the atomic scale. The present treatment is based on different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

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

Fundamental properties of the multicomponent diffuse-interface model (DIM), such as the maximum entropy principle and conservation laws, are used to explore the basic interfacial dynamics and phase transitions in fluids. Flat interfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-02 E. S. Benilov