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A multicomponent extension of our recent theory of simple fluids [ U.M.B. Marconi and S. Melchionna, Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014105 (2009) ] is proposed to describe miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures under inhomogeneous, non…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-11 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

In this article, the fluid-rigid body interaction problem of nematic liquid crystals described by the general Beris-Edwards $Q$-tensor model is studied. It is proved first that the total energy of this problem decreases in time. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Felix Brandt , Matthias Hieber , Arnab Roy

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Incompressible fluid equations are studied with UV cut-off and in periodic boundary conditions. Properties of the resulting ODEs holding uniformly in the cut-off are considered and, in particular, are conjectured to be equivalent to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-02 Giovanni Gallavotti

We predict spontaneous nematic order in an ensemble of active force generators with elastic interactions as a minimal model for early nematic alignment of short stress fibers in non-motile, adhered cells. Mean-field theory is formally…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Benjamin M. Friedrich , Samuel A. Safran

In this work we study the stochastic process of two-species coagulation. This process consists in the aggregation dynamics taking place in a ring. Particles and clusters of particles are set in this ring and they can move either clockwise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Carlos Escudero , Fabricio Macia , Raul Toral , Juan J. L. Velazquez

The structure of a molecular liquid, in both the nematic liquid crystalline and isotropic phases, around a cylindrical macroparticle, is studied using density functional theory. In the nematic phase the structure of the fluid is highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 David L. Cheung , Michael P. Allen

We explore models of hard-rod fluids with a finite number of allowed orientations, and construct their bulk phase diagrams within Onsager's second virial theory. For a one-component fluid, we show that the discretization of the orientations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kostya Shundyak , René van Roij

Liquid crystals establish a nearly unique combination of thermodynamic, hydrodynamic, and topological behavior. This poses a challenge to their theoretical understanding and modeling. The arena where these effects come together is the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-03 Shubhadeep Mandal , Marco G. Mazza

The nature of emergent collective behaviors of moving physical agents interacting with their neighborhood is a long-standing open issue in physical and biological systems alike. This calls for studies on the control of synchronization and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-11 Tirthankar Banerjee , Abhik Basu

We develop the scaled particle theory to describe the thermodynamic properties and orientation ordering of a binary mixture of hard spheres (HS) and hard spherocylinders (HSC) confined in a disordered porous medium. Using this theory the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-12 M. Hvozd , T. Patsahan , M. Holovko

We present a mechanistic model for a Newtonian fluid called fluid particle dynamics. By analyzing the concept of ``fluid particle'' from the point of view of a Voronoi tessellation of a molecular fluid, we propose an heuristic derivation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pep Español

We present a theory for the construction of renormalized kinetic equations to describe the dynamics of classical systems of particles in or out of equilibrium. A closed, self-consistent set of evolution equations is derived for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Jerome Daligault

We present a general and systematic theory of non-equilibrium dynamics of multi-component fluid membranes, in general, and membranes containing transmembrane proteins, in particular. Developed based on a minimal number of principles of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael A. Lomholt , Per L. Hansen , Ling Miao

We introduce a fundamental theory for the kinetics of systems of classical particles. The theory represents a unification of kinetic theory, Brownian motion and field theory. It is self-consistent and is the dynamic generalization of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-14 Gene F. Mazenko

Starting from a particle model describing self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment, we derive a macroscopic model for the particle density and mean direction of motion. We first propose a mean-field kinetic model of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

In a previous paper [J. Chem. Phys. 129, 024506 (2008)] we studied a 3 dimensional lattice model of a network-forming fluid, recently proposed in order to investigate water anomalies. Our semi-analytical calculation, based on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Pretti , C. Buzano , E. De Stefanis

The particles of a classical relativistic gas are supposed to move under the influence of a quasilinear (in the particle four-momenta), self-interacting force inbetween elastic, binary collisions. This force which is completely fixed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Winfried Zimdahl , Alexander B. Balakin

Starting with a formally exact diagrammatic kinetic theory for the equilibrium correlation functions of particle density and current fluctuations for a monatomic liquid, we develop a theory for high density liquids whose interatomic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kevin R. Pilkiewicz , Hans C. Andersen