We study two models for competitive deposition and evaporation of particles from rough surfaces. The process of deposition is carried out for two models, one according to the ballistic deposition (BD) and the other according to the random deposition with a surface relaxation (RDSR). The process...

A laboratory sediment sample is digitized by X-ray computed tomography system to obtain a host matrix of size 1003 of porosity 0.282. Flow through the porous medium is studied by an interacting lattice gas model for fluid driven by pressure bias. The bias H(0⩽H⩽1) is implemented via soft and...

In this work we consider the influence of mass media in the dynamics of the two-dimensional Sznajd model. This influence acts as an external field, and it is introduced in the model by means of a probability p of the agents to follow the media opinion. We performed Monte Carlo simulations on...

Grand canonical Monte Carlo, histogram reweighting and finite-size scaling methods are used to determine the phase transitions of bulk (three-dimensional) and confined (quasi-two-dimensional) neutral colloid–polymer systems. The colloids are modeled as hard spheres and the polymer molecules as...

A system of 40000 Lennard-Jones particles confined in between planar surfaces is quenched to a quasi-equilibrium vapor state where heterogeneous nucleation appears in competition with homogeneous bulk nucleation. The effect of the surfaces on nucleation is established as well as the cluster...

By using the discrete Markov chain method, Parrondo’s paradox is studied by means of theoretical analysis and computer simulation, built on the case of game AB played in alternation with modulus M=4. We find that such a case does not have a definite stationary probability distribution and that...

Extensive computer simulation is used to revisit and to generalize two classical problems: (i) the random car-parking dynamics of A. Rényi and (ii) the irreversible random sequential adsorption (RSA) of parallel squares of same size on a planar substrate of area L2. In this paper, differently...

In this paper we investigate the thermodynamical properties of electrons in one-dimensional quasiperiodic potentials, arranged in accordance with the pure and generalized Fibonacci sequences. The sequences are described in terms of a series of generations that obey peculiar recursion relations,...

Street demonstrations occur across the world. In Rio de Janeiro, in June/July 2013, they reach beyond one million people. A wrathful reader of O Globo, a leading newspaper in the same city, published a letter (Ferreira (2011)  [10]) where many social questions are stated and answered Yes or No....

An interacting lattice gas model is used to study flow of immiscible components A and B (molecular weights MA and MB,MA<MB) by Monte Carlo simulations. Concentration gradients and hydrostatic pressure bias (H) drive these constituents from their source at the bottom against gravitational sedimentation in an effective medium. Response of their flux densities (jA,jB) to the hydrostatic bias H are examined. If both constituents are released with equal probabilities (a non-interacting source), their flux densities respond linearly to bias with jA>jB except at the extreme bias H→1 where jA→jB. Flow response becomes complex if the constituents from their source are released according to their current lattice...</mb)>