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The crystal-melt interfaces of a binary hard-sphere fluid mixture in coexistence with a single-component hard-sphere crystal is investigated using molecular-dynamics simulation. In the system under study, the fluid phase consists of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Sibug-Aga , Brian B. Laird

The dynamics of a molecule immersed in a superfluid medium are considered. Results are derived using a classical hydrodynamic approach followed by canonical quantization. The classical model, a rigid body immersed in incompressible fluid,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael J. Quist , Veit Elser

The colliding flows (CF) model is a well-supported mechanism for generating molecular clouds. However, to-date most CF simulations have focused on the formation of clouds in the normal-shock layer between head-on colliding flows. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-31 Erica Fogerty , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Christina Haig , Marissa Adams

We investigate a two-dimensional network simulator that model the dynamics of two-phase immiscible bulk flow where film flow can be neglected. We present a method for simulating the detailed dynamical process where the two phases are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Eyvind Aker , Alex Hansen

Deposition of smaller granular particles on a larger nucleus particle has been simulated in two-dimension using molecular dynamics method. Variation of sequences of velocity of deposited particles is conducted and reported in this work. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-16 Euis Sustini , Siti Nurul Khotimah , Ferry Iskandar , Sparisoma Viridi

Unstable systems of fluidized grains in a very-narrow vertical tube can auto-defluidize after some time, the settling particles forming either a glass- or crystal-like structure. We carried out experiments using different polymer spheres,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-17 Vinícius Pereira da S. Oliveira , Danilo S. Borges , Erick M. Franklin , Jorge Peixinho

Drops of active liquid crystal have recently shown the ability to self-propel, which was associated with topological defects in the orientation of active filaments [Sanchez {\em et al.}, Nature {\bf 491}, 431 (2013)]. Here, we study the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-05 Diana Khoromskaia , Gareth P. Alexander

The static as well as the dynamic behaviour of granular material are determined by dynamic {\it and} static friction. There are well known methods to include static friction in molecular dynamics simulations using scarcely understood…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Poeschel , V. Buchholtz

Using Molecular Dynamics simulations of a polymer liquid flowing past flat and patterned surfaces, we investigate the influence of corrugation, wettability and pressure on slippage and friction at the solid-liquid interface. For…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-22 Nikita Tretyakov , Marcus Müller

The penetration by a gravity driven impact of a solid sphere into a granular medium is studied by two-dimensional simulations. The scaling laws observed experimentally for both the final penetration depth and the stopping time with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-12-24 Antoine Seguin , Yann Bertho , Philippe Gondret , Jerome Crassous

In the first part of the article using a direct calculation two-dimensional motion of a particle sliding on an inclined plane is investigated for general values of friction coefficient ($\mu$). A parametric equation for the trajectory of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 Cina Aghamohammadi , Amir Aghamohammadi

We report experimental measurements of avalanche behavior of thin granular layers on an inclined plane for low volume flow rate. The dynamical properties of avalanches were quantitatively and qualitatively different for smooth glass beads…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Tamas Borzsonyi , Thomas C. Halsey , Robert E. Ecke

Particles that are immersed in a fluid exchange momentum via the fluid, hence their Brownian motion is correlated. By means of multiparticle-collision dynamics simulations we study the interactions between two colloidal beads in a sheared…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-16 Marc Radu , Tanja Schilling

The rotational dynamics of a supercooled molecular liquid is investigated by a molecular-dynamics numerical study. We detect rotational jumps with a waiting-time distribution which is well fitted by a truncated power law. At lower…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristiano De Michele , Dino Leporini

The powerful molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is basically based on a picture that the atoms experience classical-like trajectories under the exertion of classical force field determined by the quantum mechanically solved electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang

We propose a generic model for thin films and shallow drops of a polar active liquid that have a free surface and are in contact with a solid substrate. The model couples evolution equations for the film height and the local polarization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Sarah Trinschek , Fenna Stegemerten , Karin John , Uwe Thiele

We propose coupled evolution equations for the thickness of a liquid film and the density of an adsorbate layer on a partially wetting solid substrate. Therein, running droplets are studied assuming a chemical reaction underneath the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe Thiele , Karin John , Markus Bär

Using molecular dynamics simulation we examine dynamics in sheared polycrystal states in a binary mixture containing 10% larger particles in two dimensions. We find large stress fluctuations arising from sliding motions of the particles at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Toshiyuki Hamanaka , Akira Onuki

A 2D numerical hydrodynamics approach is considered for modelling recent experimental results on the oscillation and collective behavior of convective flows. Our simulations consider the rising dynamics of heated fluid columns in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-07 Attila Gergely , Zoltán Néda

We show that molecular dynamics simulations can furnish useful boundary conditions at a solid surface bounding a two-component fluid. In contrast to some previous reports, convective-diffusive flow is consistent with continuum equations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Colin Denniston , Mark O. Robbins