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The buoyant rise of thermals (i.e. bubbles of enhanced entropy, but initially in pressure equilibrium) is investigated numerically in three dimensions for the case of an adiabatically stratified layer covering 6-9 pressure scale heights. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Axel Brandenburg , John Hazlehurst

We present an analytically solvable model for self-assembly of a molecular complex on a filament. The process is driven by a seed molecule that undergoes facilitated diffusion, which is a search strategy that combines diffusion in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-04 Ziya Kalay

The distribution of bubble lengths in double-stranded DNA is presented for segments of varying guanine-cytosine (GC) content, obtained with Monte Carlo simulations using the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model at 310 K. An analytical description…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 S. Ares , G. Kalosakas

We calculate bubble nucleation rates in a Lennard-Jones fluid through explicit molecular dynamics simulations. Our approach -- based on a recent free energy method (dubbed reweighted Jarzynski sampling), transition state theory, and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-16 Kristof M. Bal , Erik C. Neyts

It has been proposed that during the early steps in the origin of life, small droplets could have formed via the segregation of molecules from complex mixtures by phase separation. These droplets could have provided chemical reaction…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 David Zwicker , Rabea Seyboldt , Christoph A. Weber , Anthony A. Hyman , Frank Jülicher

In eukaryotic cell nuclei, a variety of DNA interactions with nuclear elements occur, which, in combination with intra- and inter- chromosomal cross-talks, shape a functional 3D architecture. In some cases they are organized by active, i.e.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-05 Antonio Scialdone , Mario Nicodemi

The formation and growth of helium bubbles due to self-irradiation in plutonium has been modelled by a discrete kinetic equations for the number densities of bubbles having $k$ atoms. Analysis of these equations shows that the bubble size…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 L. L. Bonilla , A. Carpio , J. C. Neu , W. G. Wolfer

This article deals with the issues of global-in-time existence and asymptotic analysis of a fluid-particle interaction model in the so-called bubbling regime. The mixture occupies the physical space $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ which may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Jose A. Carrillo , Trygve Karper , Konstantina Trivisa

When applying a voltage bias across a thin nanopore, localized Joule heating can lead to single bubble nucleation, offering a unique platform for studying nanoscale bubble behavior, which is still poorly understood. Accordingly, we…

Understanding the inherent timescales of large bubbles in DNA is critical to a thorough comprehension of its physicochemical characteristics, as well as their potential role on helix opening and biological function. In this work we employ…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Malcolm Hillebrand , George Kalosakas , Alan R Bishop , Charalampos Skokos

Cavitation in tubes is a common occurrence in nature and engineering applications. Previous studies of cavitation bubble dynamics mainly consider bubbles in stagnant-water tubes, but the dynamics of cavitation bubbles in tubes with flow is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-05 Nian Wang , Odumuyiwa A. Odumosu , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

Phase separation, the spontaneous segregation of density, is a ubiquitous phenomenon observed across diverse physical and biological systems. Within a crowd of motile elements, active phase separation emerges from the interplay of activity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-26 Kyosuke Adachi

Active fluids, composed of individual self-propelled agents, can generate complex large-scale coherent flows. A particularly important laboratory realization of such an active fluid is a system composed of microtubules, aligned in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-28 Kevin A. Mitchell , Amanda J. Tan , Jorge Arteaga , Linda S. Hirst

Using shadow photography, we observed microsecond time scale evolution of multiple cavitation bubbles, excited by tighty focused femtosecond laser pulse in water under supercritical power regime (~100 Pcr). In these extreme conditions high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. V. Potemkin , E. I. Mareev

Knowledge of bubble and drop size distributions in two-phase flows is important for characterizing a wide range of phenomena, including combustor ignition, sonar communication, and cloud formation. The physical mechanisms driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Michael S. Dodd , Perry L. Johnson , Parviz Moin

This work describes an experimental investigation on the mixing induced by a swarm of high Reynolds number air bubbles rising through a nearly homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow. The gas volume fraction $\alpha$ and the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-27 Elise Alméras , Varghese Mathai , Chao Sun , Detlef Lohse

Gel electrophoresis is a powerful experimental method to probe the topology of DNA and other biopolymers. While there is a large body of experimental work which allows us to accurately separate different topoisomers of a molecule, a full…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Davide Michieletto , Davide Marenduzzo , Enzo Orlandini

It is theoretically and experimentally argued that there may exist bubble or toroid-shaped configurations in some nucleus systems. Based on the nuclear transport model, it is shown that compared with the collision of normal nuclei, there is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Gao-Chan Yong

3D-Particle Tracking (3D-PTV) and Phase Sensitive Constant Temperature Anemometry in pseudo-turbulence--i.e., flow solely driven by rising bubbles-- were performed to investigate bubble clustering and to obtain the mean bubble rise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-14 J. Martinez , D. Chehata , D. P. M. van Gils , C. Sun , D. Lohse

We developed a computer vision-based methodology to achieve precise 3D segmentation and tracking of superbubbles within magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the supernova-driven interstellar medium. Leveraging advanced 3D transformer models,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Jing-Wen Chen , Alex S. Hill , Anna Ordog , Rebecca A. Booth , Mohamed S. Shehata