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A statistical mechanics theory for a fluid stratified in density is presented. The predicted statistical equilibrium state is the most probable outcome of turbulent stirring. The slow temporal evolution of the vertical density profile is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-23 Antoine Venaille , Louis Gostiaux , Joël Sommeria

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts of nonlocal Fisher-KPP equations in time heterogeneous media. We first construct transition fronts with prescribed interface location functions, which are natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

Abstract. The present work considers a change in the momentum under the transfer of a solution through the interface. It is shown that pressure related to the partial volumes of components arises in a solution under diffusion. As a result,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Guskov

By using a limit analysis for the motion equations of viscous fluid endowed with internal capillarity, we are able to propose a dynamical expression for the surface tension of moving liquid-vapour interfaces without any phenomenological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Henri Gouin

The present paper is devoted to the study of transition fronts in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time heterogeneous nonlinearity of ignition type. It is proven that such an equation admits space monotone transition fronts with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

We investigate the evolution of a single unbounded interface between ordered phases in two-dimensional Ising ferromagnets that are endowed with single-spin-flip zero-temperature Glauber dynamics. We examine specifically the cases where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner , J. Tailleur

Long linear polymers in a depinned interfaces environment have been studied for a long time, for instance in \cite{Caravenna2009depinning} when the temperature is constant. In this paper, we study an extension of this model by making the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Angot Elric

We investigate the interaction between an infinite cylinder and a free fluid-fluid interface governed only by its surface tension. We study the deformation of an initially flat interface when it is deformed by the presence of a cylindrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-15 Christophe Raufaste , Geoffroy Kirstetter , Franck Celestini , Simon Cox

We study the motion of discrete interfaces driven by ferromagnetic interactions in a two-dimensional periodic environment by coupling the minimizing movements approach by Almgren, Taylor and Wang and a discrete-to-continuous analysis. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-29 A. Braides , G. Scilla

The explicit form of the interface equation of motion derived assuming a minimal surface is extended to general bicontinuous interfaces that appear in the diffusion limited stage of the phase separation process of binary mixtures. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroyuki Tomita

We provide a theoretical framework to analyze the properties of frontal collisions of two growing interfaces considering different short range interactions between them. Due to their roughness, the collision events spread in time and form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Fabio D. A. Aarao Reis , Olivier Pierre-Louis

We consider asymptotic problems concerning the motion of interface separating the regions of large and small values of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation in the media consisting of domains with different characteristics…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

We extend the theory of topological localised interface modes to systems with damping. The spectral problem is formulated as a root-finding problem for the interface impedance function and Rouch\'e's theorem is used to track the zeros when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Konstantinos Alexopoulos , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

We consider a model for the evolution of an interface in a heterogeneous environment governed by a parabolic equation. The heterogeneity is introduced as obstacles exerting a localized dry friction. Our main result establishes the emergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Luca Courte , Patrick Dondl , Ulisse Stefanelli

Finite-thickness interphases between different constituents in heterogeneous materials are often replaced by a zero-thickness interface model. Commonly accepted interface models intuitively assume that the interface layer is situated…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Saba Saeb , Soheil Firooz , Paul Steinmann , Ali Javili

The Ising model of statistical physics has served as a keystone example of phase transitions, thermodynamic limits, scaling laws, and many other phenomena and mathematical methods. We introduce and explore an Ising game, a variant of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 William M Feldman , Inwon C Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

Consider the scattering of time-harmonic point sources by an infinite locally rough interface with bounded obstacles embedded in the lower half-space. The model problem is first reduced to an equivalent integral equation formulation defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Jiaqing Yang , Jianliang Li , Bo Zhang

We consider the case of a deformable material interface between two immiscible moving media, both of them being magnetiable. The time dependence of the metric at the interface introduces a non linear term, proportional to the mean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Q. Vanhaelen , M. Hennenberg , S. Slavtchev , B. Weyssow

In this note we prove that appropriately scaled threshold dynamics-type algorithms corresponding to the fractional Laplacian of order $\alpha \in (0,2)$ converge to moving fronts. When $\alpha \geqq 1$ the resulting interface moves by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Luis A. Caffarelli , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

Diffuse-interface theory provides a foundation for the modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in a very wide range of materials, and for the tracking/capturing of dynamic interfaces between different materials on larger scales.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin , Alexandre Tartakovsky