Classical dynamical density functional theory: from fundamentals to applications

M te Vrugt, H Löwen, R Wittkowski - Advances in Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is one of the cornerstones of modern
statistical mechanics. It is an extension of the highly successful method of classical density …

Tensiometry and rheology of complex interfaces

N Jaensson, J Vermant - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
Complex fluid-fluid interfaces play an important role in a variety of application domains, from
emulsion and foam stability, to thin films in biomedical applications, to coating flow …

The Countoscope: measuring self and collective dynamics without trajectories

EKR Mackay, S Marbach, B Sprinkle, AL Thorneywork - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Driven by physical questions pertaining to quantifying particle dynamics, microscopy can
now resolve complex systems at the single-particle level, from cellular organisms to …

Interfacial flow around Brownian colloids

M Molaei, NG Chisholm, J Deng, JC Crocker… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Understanding the flow created by particle motion at interfaces is a critical step toward
understanding hydrodynamic interactions and colloidal self organization. We have …

The subdivision-based IGA-EIEQ numerical scheme for the Navier–Stokes equations coupled with Cahn–Hilliard phase-field model of two-phase incompressible flow …

Q Pan, Y Huang, T Rabczuk, X Yang - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
We develop an accurate and robust numerical scheme for solving the incompressible
hydrodynamically coupled Cahn–Hilliard system of the two-phase fluid flow system on …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial chemotaxis under electrodiffusiophoresis

CAS Batista, K Wang, H Blake… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Through a large parameter space, electric fields can tune colloidal interactions
and forces leading to diverse static and dynamical structures. So far, however, field-driven …

The Dean-Kawasaki equation and stochastic density functional theory

P Illien - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.13467, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Dean-Kawasaki (DK) equation, which is at the basis of stochastic density functional
theory (SDFT), was proposed in the mid-nineties to describe the evolution of the density of …

Universally Adaptable Multiscale Molecular Dynamics (UAMMD). A native-GPU software ecosystem for complex fluids, soft matter, and beyond

RP Peláez, P Ibáñez-Freire, P Palacios-Alonso… - Computer Physics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract We introduce UAMMD (Universally Adaptable Multiscale Molecular Dynamics), a
novel software infrastructure tailored for mesoscale complex fluid simulations on GPUs. The …

Stochastic PDE approach to fluctuating interfaces

T Funaki - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.00708, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a new type of SPDEs, singular or with regularized noises, motivated by a study
of the fluctuation of the density field in a microscopic interacting particle system. They …

Hydrodynamics induce superdiffusive jumps of passive tracers along critical paths of random networks and colloidal gels

N Alcázar-Cano, R Delgado-Buscalioni - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a numerical study on the effect of hydrodynamic interactions (HI) on the diffusion
of inert point tracer particles in several fixed random structures. As expected, the diffusion is …