The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Understanding the characteristics of jammed particle packings provides basic insights into
the structure and bulk properties of crystals, glasses, and granular media and into selected …

Hard-sphere systems are one of the fundamental model systems of statistical physics and
represent an important reference system for molecular or colloidal systems with soft …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Translational and orientational excluded-volume fields encoded in particles with anisotropic
shapes can lead to purely entropy-driven assembly of morphologies with specific order and …

Fully resolved simulations of flow past fixed assemblies of monodisperse spheres in face‐
centered‐cubic array or random configurations, are performed using an iterative immersed …

Despite its fundamental and technological importance, a microscopic understanding of the
crystallization process is still elusive. By computer simulations of the hard-sphere model we …

The solubility of NaCl in water is evaluated by using three force field models: Joung–
Cheatham for NaCl dissolved in two different water models (SPC/E and TIP4P/2005) and …

Salt aqueous solutions are relevant in many fields, ranging from biological systems to
seawater. Thus, the availability of a force-field that is able to reproduce the thermodynamic …

Understanding the thermodynamic stability and metastability of materials can help us to, for
example, gauge whether crystalline polymorphs in pharmaceutical formulations are likely to …