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Coupled aggregation and sedimentation processes were studied by means of three dimensional computer simulations. For this purpose, a large prism with no periodic boundary conditions for the sedimentation direction was considered.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Leone , G. Odriozola , L. Mussio , A. Schmitt , R. Hidalgo-Alvarez

We perform simulations in a simple model that aims to mimic the hydrodynamic evolution of a relativistic fluid during a cosmological first-order phase transitions. The observable we are concerned with is hereby the spectrum of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Thomas Konstandin

We examine the phenomenon of dynamical heterogeneity in computer simulations of an equilibrium, glass-forming liquid. We describe several approaches to quantify the spatial correlation of single-particle motion, and show that spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-25 Sharon C. Glotzer , Claudio Donati

An important aspect of astrophysical MHD turbulence research is developing diagnostics to connect simulations with the observable universe. Turbulent systems are by definition structurally complex in all fluid variables (density, velocity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eve C. Ostriker

Emergent phenomena share the fascinating property of not being obvious consequences of the design of the system in which they appear. This characteristic is no less relevant when attempting to simulate such phenomena, given that the outcome…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-26 D. C. Rapaport

Gravity-driven flows of granular matter are involved in a wide variety of situations, ranging from industrial processes to geophysical phenomena, such as avalanches or landslides. These flows are characterized by the coexistence of solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-18 Pierre Soulard , Denis Dumont , Thomas Salez , Elie Raphael , Pascal Damman

In this paper we test the performance of explicit simulations of groups of galaxies, (i.e. simulations in which each galaxy is treated as a mass point and the physics of the interactions is modelled by specific analand the physics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Garcia-Gomez , E. Athanassoula , A. Garijo

We study statistical properties of a one dimensional infinite system of coalescing particles. Each particle moves with constant velocity $\pm v$ towards its closest neighbor and merges with it upon collision. We propose a mean-field theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Ispolatov , P. L. Krapivsky

We have developed a new numerical technique for simulating dusty-gas flows. Our unique code incorporates gas hydrodynamics, self-gravity and dust drag to follow the dynamical evolution of a dusty-gas medium. We have incorporated several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. T. Maddison , R. J. Humble , J. R. Murray

The quantum collision models are a useful method to describe the dynamics of an open quantum system by means of repeated interactions between the system and some particles of the environment, which are usually termed "ancillas". In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Marco Cattaneo , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini , Sabrina Maniscalco

We use simulations to investigate collision time distributions as one approaches the static limit of steady-state flow of dry granular matter. The collision times fall in a power-law distribution with an exponent dictated by whether the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 John J. Drozd , Colin Denniston

The spatio-temporal evolution of a downsized model for a desert dune is observed experimentally in a narrow water flow channel. A particle tracking method reveals that the migration speed of the model dune is one order of magnitude smaller…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-06-17 Christopher Groh , Ingo Rehberg , Christof A. Kruelle

We present a full hydrodynamical investigation of a system of self-contained, interacting gas `cloudlets'. Calculations are performed using SPH, and cloudlets are allowed to collide, dissipate kinetic energy, merge and undergo local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Gittins , Cathie Clarke , Matthew Bate

With the goal to refine modelling of shell galaxies and the use of shells to probe the merger history, we develop a new method for implementing dynamical friction in test-particle simulations of radial minor mergers. The friction is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-23 Ivana Ebrova , Bruno Jungwiert , Gabriela Canalizo , Nicola Bennert , Lucie Jilkova

Semi-empirical molecular dynamics is used to simulate several gaseous atomic hydrogen interactions with hydrocarbon grains in space: recoil, adsorption, diffusion, chemisorption and recombination into molecular hydrogen. Their probabilities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Renaud Papoular

Granular systems confined in a shallow box and driven by vertical vibration provide a simple geometry to study fluidized granular media. Grains gain kinetic energy vertically through collisions with the walls and redistribute it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto , Vicente Garzó

A classical dusty plasma experiment was performed using two different dust grain sizes to form a strongly coupled asymmetric bilayer (two closely spaced interacting monolayers) of two species of charged dust particles. The observation and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 P. Hartmann , Z. Donko , G. J. Kalman , S. Kyrkos , K. I. Golden , M. Rosenberg

In this paper we build models for short-term, mean-term and long-term dynamics of dune in desert. They are models that are degenerated parabolic equations which are, moreover, singularly perturbed. We, then give existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Mohamed Ould Badahi , Ibrahima Faye , Diaraf Seck

Model calculations that include the effects of irreversible, environmental couplings on top of a coupled-channels dynamical description of the collision of two complex nuclei are presented. The Liouville-von Neumann equation for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexis Diaz-Torres , David Hinde , Mahananda Dasgupta , Gerard Milburn , Jeff Tostevin

{It is necessary to understand the dynamics of the atomic gas to use complex modeling and to carry out detailed comparisons between theoretical models and observations.}{In a companion paper, we present high resolution bidimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , M. -A Miville-Deschenes