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The behavior of polyampholytes near a charged planar surface is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The investigated polyampholytes are overall electrically neutral and made up of oppositely charged units (called blocks) that are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Rene Messina

The growth rate of material interfaces is an important proxy for mixing and reaction rates in fluid dynamics, and can also be used to identify regions of coherence. Estimating such growth rates can be difficult, since they depend on…

A numerical study of multi-phase granular materials based upon micro-mechanical modelling is proposed. Discrete element simulations are used to investigate capillary induced effects on the friction properties of a granular assembly in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-07 L. Scholtès , B. Chareyre F. Nicot , F. Darve

The equilibrium properties of polymer droplets on a soft deformable surface are investigated by molecular dynamics simulations of a bead-spring model. The surface consists of a polymer brush with irreversibly end-tethered linear homopolymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabien Léonforte , Marcus Müller

A coarse grained description of a two phase fluid is used to study the steady state configuration of the interface separating the coexisting phases, and the motion of the contact line at which the interface intersects a solid boundary. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsuan-Yi Chen , David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

Flow in thin films is highly dependent on the boundary conditions. Here, we study the capillary levelling of thin bilayer films composed of two immiscible liquids. Specifically, a stepped polymer layer is placed atop another, flat polymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-27 Vincent Bertin , Carmen Lee , Thomas Salez , Elie Raphael , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

This paper studies a polymer chain in the vicinity of a linear interface separating two immiscible solvents. The polymer consists of random monomer types, while the interface carries random charges. Both the monomer types and the charges…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Frank den Hollander , Alex A. Opoku

We investigate interfacial properties between two highly incompatible polymers of different stiffness. The extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the binary polymer melt yield detailed interfacial profiles and the interfacial tension via an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marcus Mueller , Andreas Werner

The density profile and surface tension for the interface of phase-separated colloid-polymer mixtures have been studied in the framework of the square gradient approximation for both ideal and interacting polymers in good solvent. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Moncho-Jorda , B. Rotenberg , A. A. Louis

For scalar semilinear wave equations, we analyze the interaction of two (distorted) plane waves at an interface between media of different nonlinear properties. We show that new waves are generated from the nonlinear interactions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Maarten de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We present a systematic study of capillary filling for a binary fluid by using mesoscopic a lattice Boltzmann model describing a diffusive interface moving at a given contact angle with respect to the walls. We compare the numerical results…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-01-29 S. Chibbaro , L. Biferale , F. Diotallevi , S. Succi

We investigated the effect of surfactants on an interface between two kinds of liquid by molecular dynamics simulation. We adopted the simple bead-spring model with two atoms as the surfactants. We controlled the interfacial tension of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-14 Shunta Kikuchi , Hiroshi Watanabe

We explore by means of modeling how absorptive-dispersive mixing between the second- and third-order terms modify the imaginary chi(2)total responses from air/water interfaces under conditions of varying charge densities and ionic strength.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-04 Paul Ohno , Hong-fei Wang , James Skinner , Francesco Paesani , Franz M. Geiger

We compute properties of the interface of the 3-dimensional Ising model for a wide range of temperatures and for interface extensions up to 64 by 64. The interface tension sigma is obtained by integrating the surface energy density over the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Martin Hasenbusch , Klaus Pinn

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 study interfaces with periodic boundary conditions in the low temperature phase of the improved Blume-Capel model on the simple cubic lattice. The interface free energy is defined by the difference of the free energy of a system with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-28 Martin Hasenbusch

Motivated by recent experimental work on multicomponent lipid membranes supported by colloidal scaffolds, we report an exhaustive theoretical investigation of the equilibrium configurations of binary mixtures on curved substrates. Starting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-12 Piermarco Fonda , Melissa Rinaldin , Daniela J. Kraft , Luca Giomi

Non-Hermitian systems give rise to distinct topological phenomena, yet their manifestations at temporal interfaces characterized by abrupt changes in system parameters remain largely unex plored. Upon an abrupt alteration of the Hamiltonian…

We derive the nonlinear fractional surface wave equation that governs compression waves at an interface that is coupled to a viscous bulk medium. The fractional character of the differential equation comes from the fact that the effective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Kappler , Shamit Shrivastava , Matthias F. Schneider , Roland R. Netz

We consider the Asakura-Oosawa model of hard sphere colloids and ideal polymers in contact with a porous matrix modeled by immobilized configurations of hard spheres. For this ternary mixture a fundamental measure density functional theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul P. F. Wessels , Matthias Schmidt , Hartmut Löwen