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In the Hermite-expansion-based multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) model [Shan & Chen, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, 18, 635, (2007)], a separate relaxation time is assigned to each of the tensorial moments of the collision term. Here…

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This article is the second of a three-part series that derives a self-consistent theoretical framework of the electromechanics of arbitrarily curved lipid membranes. Existing continuum theories commonly treat lipid membranes as strictly…

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We present an extensive analysis of the relaxation dynamics of entangled linear polymer melts via long-time molecular dynamics simulations of a generic bead-spring model. We study the mean-squared displacements, the autocorrelation function…

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The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix of coefficients of the linearized kinetic equations applied to aggregation in surfactant solution determine the full spectrum of characteristic times and specific modes of micellar relaxation.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Ilya A. Babintsev , Loran Ts. Adzhemyan , Alexander K. Shchekin

We present an extremely simplified model of multiple-domains polymer stretching in an atomic force microscopy experiment. We portray each module as a binary set of contacts and decompose the system energy into a harmonic term (the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-20 Carlo Guardiani , Franco Bagnoli

A method of solving Maxwell equations in a vicinity of a multipole particle (moving along an arbitrary trajectory) is proposed. The method is based on a geometric construction of a trajectory-adapted coordinate system, which simplifies…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-04-18 Jerzy Kijowski , Piotr Podles

We present here a brief overview of our work in developing a convolutionless quantum master equation approach suitable for mesoscopic sized systems. Our final equation can be used in the regimes where the golden rule approach is not…

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Recent developments of microscopic mechanical experiments allow the manipulation of individual polymer molecules in two main ways: \textit{uniform} stretching by external forces and \textit{non-uniform} stretching by external fields. Many…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fabio Manca , Stefano Giordano , Pier Luca Palla , Fabrizio Cleri , Luciano Colombo

An extended volume of fluid method is developed for two-phase direct numerical simulations of systems with one viscoelastic and one Newtonian phase. A complete set of governing equations is derived by conditional volume-averaging of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Günter Brenn , Holger Marschall , Dieter Bothe

We formulate and characterize a model to describe the dynamics of semiflexible polymers in the presence of activity due to motor proteins attached irreversibly to a substrate, and a transverse pulling force acting on one end of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri

Single partially confined collapsed polymers are studied in two dimensions. They are described by self-avoiding random walks with nearest-neighbour attractions below the $\Theta$-point, on the surface of an infinitely long cylinder. For the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Peter Grassberger

The kinematical and dynamical symmetries of equations describing the time evolution of quantum systems like the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator in one space dimension and the interaction of a non-relativistic spin one-half particle in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nibaldo Alvarez-Moraga , Veronique Hussin

While the dynamics of polymer chains in equilibrium media is well understood by now, the polymer dynamics in active non-equilibrium environments can be very different. Here we study the dynamics of polymers in a viscous medium containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-23 Jaeoh Shin , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Won Kyu Kim , Vasily Zaburdaev

In this paper we mainly study large time behavior for the strong solutions of the finite extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) dumbbell model. There is a lot results about the $L^2$ decay rate of the co-rotation model. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Zhaonan Luo , Wei Luo , Zhaoyang Yin

The emergent fluctuating hydrodynamics of a viscoelastic fluid modeled by the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPC) approach is studied. The fluid is composed of flexible, Gaussian phantom polymers, which interact by local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 David Toneian , Gerhard Kahl , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

This paper examines the oscillatory behaviour of complex viscoelastic systems with power law-like relaxation behaviour. Specifically, we use the fractional Maxwell model, consisting of a spring and fractional dashpot in series, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-05 R. H. Pritchard , E. M. Terentjev

Extensibility is beyond the paradigm of classical soft glassy materials, and more broadly, yield-stress fluids. Recently, model yield-stress fluids with significant extensibility have been designed by adding polymeric phases to classically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-29 Samya Sen , Rubens R. Fernandes , Randy H. Ewoldt

In this note, we consider a kinetic Fokker-Planck-Alignment equation with Rayleigh-type friction and self-propulsion force which is derived from general environmental averaging models. We show the exponential relaxation in time toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Vinh Nguyen

As a model of soft confinement for polymers, we investigated equilibrium shapes of a flexible vesicle that contains a phase-separating polymer solution. To simulate such a system, we combined the phase field theory (PFT) for the vesicle and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu