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We propose a simple and general model accounting for the dependence of the viscosity of a hard sphere suspension at arbitrary volume fractions. The model constitutes a continuum-medium description based on a recursive-differential method…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlos I. Mendoza , Ivan Santamaria-Holek

In kinetic theory, the classic $n \Sigma v$ approach calculates the rate of particle interactions from local quantities: the number density of particles $n$, the cross-section $\Sigma$, and the average relative speed $v$. In stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-07 Elisha Modelevsky , Nicholas C. Stone , Re'em Sari

Inspired by the turf-ball interaction in golf, this paper seeks to understand the bounce of a ball that can be modelled as a rigid sphere and the surface as supplying an elasto-plastic contact force in addition to Coulomb friction. A…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Stanisław W. Biber , Alan R. Champneys , Robert Szalai

We use molecular simulations to study the nonadhesive and adhesive atomic-scale contact of rough spheres with radii ranging from nanometers to micrometers over more than ten orders of magnitude in applied normal load. At the lowest loads,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-03 Lars Pastewka , Mark O. Robbins

In this paper, we examine the dynamic behavior of a viscoelastic string oscillating above a rigid obstacle in a one-dimensional setting, accounting for inelastic contact between the string and the obstacle. We construct a global-in-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Boris Muha , Srđan Trifunović

A numerical model is proposed to compute the eigenmodes and the forced response of multilayered elastic spheres. The main idea is to describe analytically the problem along the angular coordinates with spherical harmonics and to discretize…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-27 Matthieu Gallezot , Fabien Treyssède , Odile Abraham

A simple model is outlined to describe the collision of cast phenol-formaldehyde resin spheres such as the balls used in the parlor game of pocket billiards, based in part on the famous analysis of elastic collisions developed by Heinrich…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Crown

The quasistatic normal-compliance contact problem of isotropic homogeneous linear visco-elastic bodies with Coulomb friction at small strains in Kelvin-Voigt rheology is considered. The discretization is made by a semi-implicit formula in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Roman Vodička , Vladislav Mantič , Tomáš Roubíček

Viscoelastic fluids play a critical role in various engineering and biological applications, where their lubrication properties are strongly influenced by relaxation times ranging from microseconds to minutes. Although the lubrication…

A general model covering a large variety of the so-called adhesive or cohesive, possibly also frictional, contact interfaces between visco-elastic bodies with inertia considered in a thermodynamical context is presented. A semi-implicit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Tomáš Roubíček

We consider a particle moving on the half line $x>0$ and subject to a constant force in the $-x$ direction plus a delta-correlated random force. At $x=0$ the particle is reflected inelastically. The velocities just after and before…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Theodore W. Burkhardt , Stanislav N. Kotsev

We calculate the second and third virial coefficients of the effective sphere-sphere interaction due to polymer depletion. By utilizing the anisotropy of a typical polymer conformation, we can consider polymers that are roughly the same…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Mario Triantafillou , Randall D. Kamien

We model numerically the partial normal contact of two elastic rough surfaces with highly correlated asperities. Facing surfaces are unmated and described as self-affine with a Hurst exponent H. The numerical algorithm is based on Fourier…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. George Batrouni , Alex Hansen , Jean Schmittbuhl

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

Motivated by roughness-induced adhesion enhancement (toughening and strengthening) in low modulus materials, we study the detachment of a sphere from a substrate in the presence of both viscoelastic dissipation at the contact edge, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-13 M. Ciavarella

We consider a viscoelastic body occupying a smooth bounded domain of $R^3$ under the effects of volumic traction forces. Inertial effects are considered: hence, the equation describing the evolution of displacements is of the second order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Riccardo Scala , Giulio Schimperna

The dispersion relation is derived for the coherent waves in fluid or elastic media supporting viscous and thermal effects and containing randomly distributed spherical scatterers. The formula obtained is the generalization of Lloyd and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 Francine Luppé , Jean-Marc Conoir , Andrew N. Norris

A new solution for a general half-plane contact in the steady state is presented. The contacting bodies are subject to a set of constant loads - normal force, shear force and bulk tension parallel with the interface - together with an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-22 H. N. Andresen , D. A. Hills , J. R. Barber , J. Vázquez

We continue the study of Confined Vortex Surfaces (\CVS{}) that we introduced in the previous paper. We classify the solutions of the \CVS{} equation and find the analytical formula for the velocity field for arbitrary background strain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Alexander Migdal

In the preceding paper, linear response methods have been applied to obtain formally exact expressions for the parameters of Navier-Stokes order hydrodynamics. The analysis there is general, applying to both normal and granular fluids with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aparna Baskaran , James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey