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 …

Molecular mechanics of liquid and gas slip flow

NG Hadjiconstantinou - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
By taking into account the inhomogeneity introduced by the presence of a solid boundary,
slip-flow theory extends the range of applicability of the venerable Navier–Stokes …

Heterogeneous bubble nucleation dynamics

M Gallo, F Magaletti, CM Casciola - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Heterogeneous nucleation is the most effective mechanism for the inception of phase
transformation. Solid walls and impurities act as a catalyst for the formation of a new …

Ionic fluctuations in finite volumes: fractional noise and hyperuniformity

B Rotenberg, S Marbach - Faraday Discussions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Observing finite regions of a bigger system is a common aim, from microscopy to molecular
simulations. In the latter especially, there is ongoing interest in predicting thermodynamic …

On the equivalence of nonequilibrium and equilibrium measurements of slip in molecular dynamics simulations

NG Hadjiconstantinou, MM Swisher - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
We show that nonequilibrium and equilibrium measurements of slip are consistent, provided
the hydrodynamic wall location associated with the equilibrium measurement is properly …

Hydrodynamic density functional theory for mixtures from a variational principle and its application to droplet coalescence

R Stierle, J Gross - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) allows the description of microscopic dynamical
processes on the molecular scale extending classical DFT to non-equilibrium situations …

Microscopic slip boundary conditions in unsteady fluid flows

JA De La Torre, D Duque-Zumajo, D Camargo… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
An algebraic tail in the Green-Kubo integral for the solid-fluid friction coefficient hampers its
use in the determination of the slip length. A simple theory for discrete nonlocal …

Wall-Spring Thermostat: A Novel Approach for Controlling the Dynamics of Soft Coarse-Grained Polymer Fluids at Surfaces

PK Jana, P Bacova, L Schneider, H Kobayashi… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rheological properties of polymer composites depend on the interfacial interactions
between solid fillers and a polymer fluid. In highly coarse-grained (hCG) models, where one …

Non-local viscosity from the Green–Kubo formula

D Duque-Zumajo, JA De La Torre… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We study through MD simulations the correlation matrix of the discrete transverse
momentum density field in real space for an unconfined Lennard-Jones fluid at equilibrium …

Sound waves, diffusive transport, and wall slip in nanoconfined compressible fluids

H Holey, P Gumbsch, L Pastewka - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Although continuum theories have been proven quite robust to describe confined fluid flow
at molecular length scales, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal mechanistic …