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We formulate a relativistic hydrodynamic theory for fluids with spin and intrinsic dilation charges. Using an entropy-current analysis, we derive constitutive relations featuring a bulk viscosity and a dilation conductivity governing the…

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The stochastic motion of a two-dimensional vesicle in linear shear flow is studied at finite temperature. In the limit of small deformations from a circle, Langevin-type equations of motion are derived, which are highly nonlinear due to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Reimar Finken , Antonio Lamura , Udo Seifert , Gerhard Gompper

We obtain analytic expressions for the time correlation functions of a liquid of spherical particles, exact in the limit of high dimensions $d$. The derivation is long but straightforward: a dynamic virial expansion for which only the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-08 Thibaud Maimbourg , Jorge Kurchan , Francesco Zamponi

A recently introduced particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities is generalized to model immiscible binary mixtures. Excluded volume interactions between the two components are modeled by stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Erkan Tuzel , Guoai Pan , Thomas Ihle , Daniel M. Kroll

We formulate the Schr\"odinger problem for interacting particle systems in the hydrodynamical regime thus extending the standard setting of independent particles. This involves the large deviations rate function for the empirical measure…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-30 L. Bertini , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio

We investigate a phase separation instability that occurs in a system of nearly elastically colliding hard spheres driven by a thermal wall. If the aspect ratio of the confining box exceeds a threshold value, granular hydrostatics predict…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Baruch Meerson , Thorsten Poeschel , Pavel V. Sasorov , Thomas Schwager

We employ hydrodynamic equations to follow the clustering instability of a freely cooling dilute gas of inelastically colliding spheres into a well-developed nonlinear regime. We simplify the problem by dealing with a one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Efi Efrati , Eli Livne , Baruch Meerson

A unifying framework to describe dense flows of dry, deformable grains is proposed. Perturbative analysis of a granular temperature equation describing flows with contact stresses, supported by the recovery of the nonlocal granular fluidity…

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To reach a deeper understanding of fluid interfaces it is necessary to identify a meaningful coarse-graining length that separates intrinsic fluctuations from capillary ones, given the lack of a proper statistical mechanical definition of…

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We analyze the transport properties of a low density ensemble of identical macroscopic particles immersed in an active fluid. The particles are modeled as inelastic hard spheres (granular gas). The non-homogeneous active fluid is modeled by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-17 Francisco Vega Reyes , Antonio Lasanta

From extensive molecular dynamics simulations on immiscible two-phase flows, we find the relative slipping between the fluids and the solid wall everywhere to follow the generalized Navier boundary condition, in which the amount of slipping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tiezheng Qian , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ping Sheng

The term active nematics designates systems in which apolar elongated particles spend energy to move randomly along their axis and interact by inelastic collisions in the presence of noise. Starting from a simple Vicsek-style model for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Eric Bertin , Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Shradha Mishra , Anton Peshkov , Sriram Ramaswamy

The boundary conditions at the deformable interface between two contacting fluids are derived for the general case of the large-amplitude perturbations. The interface is modeled as perturbed free boundary that evolves in time, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-13 Ivan V. Kazachkov

We consider the interaction of a compressible fluid with a flexible plate in two space dimensions. The fluid is described by the Navier--Stokes equations in a domain that is changing in accordance with the motion of the structure. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Dominic Breit , Arnab Roy

Macroscopic equations arising out of stochastic particle systems in detailed balance (called dissipative systems or gradient flows) have a natural variational structure, which can be derived from the large-deviation rate functional for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Robert I. A. Patterson , D. R. Michiel Renger , Upanshu Sharma

We consider fluctuations of the dissipated energy in nonlinear driven diffusive systems subject to bulk dissipation and boundary driving. With this aim, we extend the recently-introduced macroscopic fluctuation theory to nonlinear driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. I. Hurtado , A. Lasanta , A. Prados

Turbulent flows, ubiquitous in nature and engineering, comprise fluctuations over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. While flows with fluctuations in thermodynamic variables are much more common, much less is known about these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 Diego A. Donzis , John Panickacheril John

The problem of the gas-liquid heterophase fluctuations of a fluid within the critical and supercritical regions is revisited. To describe the thermodynamics and structure of the heterophase fluid, the mesoscopic equation of state is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-21 A. S. Bakai

Dipole-conserving fluids serve as examples of kinematically constrained systems that can be understood on the basis of symmetry. They are known to display various exotic features including glassylike dynamics, subdiffusive transport, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Aleksander Głódkowski , Francisco Peña-Benítez , Piotr Surówka

A phenomenological theory of the fluctuations of velocity occurring in a fully developed homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow is presented. The focus is made on the fluctuations of the spatial (Eulerian) and temporal (Lagrangian)…