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The scaling behaviour of randomly branched polymers in a good solvent is studied in two to nine dimensions, using as microscopic models lattice animals and lattice trees on simple hypercubic lattices. As a stochastic sampling method we use…

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We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess experimentally the existence of a superlinear scaling…

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We study roughness scaling of the outer surface and the internal porous structure of deposits generated with the three-dimensional bidisperse ballistic deposition (BBD), in which particles of two sizes are randomly deposited. Systematic…

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Accurate quantification of the extent of lung pathological patterns (fibrosis, ground-glass opacity, emphysema, consolidation) is prerequisite for diagnosis and follow-up of interstitial lung diseases. However, segmentation is challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Rezkellah Noureddine Khiati , Pierre-Yves Brillet , Radu Ispas , Catalin Fetita

We consider two models of random diffusion in random environment in two dimensions. The first example is the self-repelling Brownian polymer, this describes a diffusion pushed by the negative gradient of its own occupation time measure…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Balint Toth , Benedek Valko

Behavior of a dilute polymer solution in a random three-dimensional flow with an average shear is studied experimentally. Polymer contribution to the shear stress is found to be more than two orders of magnitude higher than in a laminar…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Groisman , Victor Steinberg

We determine the second, third, and fourth virial coefficients appearing in the density expansion of the osmotic pressure of a monodisperse polymer solution in good-solvent conditions. Using the expected large-concentration behavior, we…

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We study the effect of fluid flow on three-dimensional (3D) dendrite growth using a phase-field model on an adaptive finite element grid. In order to simulate 3D fluid flow, we use an averaging method for the flow problem coupled to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-Ho Jeong , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan A. Dantzig

We introduce a new class of growth models, with a surface restructuring mechanism in which impinging particles may dislodge suspended particles, previously aggregated on the same column in the deposit. The flux of these particles is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-14 J. S. Oliveira Filho , T. J. Oliveira , J. A. Redinz

Brush-like structures emerge from stretching of long polymer chains, densely grafted on to the surface of an impermeable substrate. They arise due to the competition between conformational entropic elasticity of polymer chains and excluded…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 M. Manav , P. Anilkumar , A. Srikantha Phani

We consider a cluster growth model on the d-dimensional lattice, called internal diffusion limited aggregation (internal DLA). In this model, random walks start at the origin, one at a time, and stop moving when reaching a site not occupied…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-03 Amine Asselah , Alexandre Gaudilliere

Spreading on the free surface of a complex fluid is ubiquitous in nature and industry, owing to the wide existence of complex fluids. Here we report on a fingering instability that develops during Marangoni spreading on a deep layer of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xue Ma , Menglin Zhong , Yifeng He , Zhanwei Liu , Zhenzhen Li

In drying liquid films of polymer-colloid mixtures, the stratification in which polymers are placed on top of larger colloids is studied. It is often presumed that the formation of segregated polymer-colloid layers is solely due to the…

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In this paper, we propose DDPM-Polycube, a generative polycube creation approach based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) for generating high-quality hexahedral (hex) meshes and constructing volumetric splines. Unlike…

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We investigate submonolayer epitaxial growth with a fixed monomer flux and irreversible aggregation of adatom islands due to their effective diffusion. When the diffusivity D_k of an island of mass k is proportional to k^{-\mu}, a…

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We study the following growth model on a regular d-ary tree. Points at distance n adjacent to the existing subtree are added with probabilities proportional to alpha^{-n}, where alpha<1 is a positive real parameter. The heights of these…

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Building on porous-medium-type nonlinear diffusion, we compare analytical Barenblatt-type similarity solutions with plume's radii from digital analysis of published seismic monitoring images, to quantify field-scale CO$_2$ plume-footprint…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Fernando Alonso-Marroquin , Christian Tantardini

Brownian diffusion of rod-like polymers in the presence of randomly distributed spherical obstacles is studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is observed that dependence of the reduced diffusion coefficient of these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Farzaneh Sakha , Hossein Fazli

We perform a comprehensive study of the formation of three dimensional (pyramidal) structures in a large range of conditions, including the possible evaporation of adatoms from the surface and the presence of surface defects. We compare our…

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