A method of induced forces and torques is employed to study brownian motion of a particle in a fluid with internal angular momentum (spin). One derives generalized Faxén theorems for the force and torque exerted on the particle. In the Landau-Lifshitz approach, one obtains...

The speed of pulled fronts for parabolic fractional-reaction-dispersal equations is derived and analyzed. From the continuous-time random walk theory we derive these equations by considering long-tailed distributions for waiting times and dispersal distances. For both cases we obtain the...

Previous thermodynamic analyses of shear-induced shift of the spinodal line in diluted polymer solutions in plane Couette flows are extended here to the entangled regime by using the reptation model. The most significant difference with respect to the dilute regime is a shift of the critical...

The expressions for the nonequilibrium temperature derived from the fluctuation–dissipation theorem and from the differential of the informational nonequilibrium entropy for ideal gases under shear flow are compared. Both temperatures are different, in particular, the thermodynamic temperature...

The front dynamics in reaction–diffusion equations with a piecewise linear reaction term is studied. A transition from pushed-to-pulled fronts when they propagate into the unstable state is found using a variational principle. This transition occurs for a critical value of the discontinuity...

It is shown that the identification of the Lagrange multiplier conjugated to the viscous pressure tensor that was proposed in a previous paper [Physica A 233 (1996) 163–174] on information theory applied to fluids under flow yields for the orientational distribution function of dilute dumbbell...

We have analyzed the implications of the energy of anisotropy of a ferromagnetic sphere suspended in a carrier fluid in its dynamics. The rotational viscosity, which for a particular geometry represents the increase of the viscosity of the system due to the presence of an external magnetic...

Diffusion of transported particles in the intracellular medium is described by means of a generalized diffusion equation containing forces due to the cytoskeleton network and to the protein motors. We find that the enhanced diffusion observed in experiments depends on the nature of the force...

We study the dynamics of an axisymmetric particle suspended in a fluid. The approach we use is based on the induced forces method. We then obtain formal expressions for the friction tensors from which one derives explicit formulas for the friction coefficients depending on the shape of the...

We have used the thermodynamical description of a chemical reaction as a diffusion process along an internal coordinate to analyze fluctuations in the density of the constituents, which are treated under the framework of fluctuating hydrodynamics. We then obtain a Langevin equation for the...