A systematic framework introduced recently to obtain parameter-free predictions of material properties of dilute polymer solutions in extensional flows is reviewed. The essential constraint of ensuring that the model polymer molecule has a finite length is met by using a bead–spring chain...

We studied the hydrodynamic interaction between a colloidal particle close to flat rigid boundaries and the surrounding fluid using oscillating optical tweezers. A colloidal particle located near walls provides a model system to study the behavior of more complex systems whose boundaries can be...

We investigate the combined effects of electrostatic interactions and hydrodynamic interactions (HI) on the short-time rotational self-diffusion coefficient Dsr in charge-stabilized suspensions. We calculate Dsr as a function of volume fraction φ for various effective particle charges and...

Based on the Wilemski–Fixman approach [G. Wilemski, M. Fixman, J. Chem. Phys. 60 (1974) 866], we show that, for a flexible chain in θ solvent, hydrodynamic interaction treated with a pre-averaging approximation makes ring closing faster if the chain is not very short. We also show that the...

The mathematical modeling of transport properties in reacting gases on the basis of kinetic equations for the distribution functions is given in this paper. Thermal and chemical nonequilibrium conditions are considered. The influence of rotational and vibrational excitation and chemical...

A theoretical model is presented for the study of magnons heat transfer across an integrated nanostructure acting as interface material between two ultrathin Heisenberg ferromagnetic films. This is done by calculating the transmission rates of the spin wave modes through the consideration of the...

Epitaxial CrO2 (100)-oriented film was successfully fabricated on TiO2 (100) substrate by a simple chemical vapor deposition in a two-zone furnace with oxygen flow from a CrO3 precursor. The transport measurements show that the CrO2 film is metallic with a small residual resistivity 4 μΩ cm...

We present the first-principles calculation of transport properties of a semiconducting carbon nanotube connected to aluminum metallic electrodes. The transmission spectrum of the nanotube shows a decrease in the band-gap energy level but has a finite value due to the hybridization of the...

By introducing an order parameter that describes the geometry of clusters of particles, Liu and Oppenheim [Physica A 247 (1997) 183] developed a microscopic theory for hopping transport in glass-forming liquids. In this work we bring this theory within the frame of mode coupling theories in the...

We derive general expressions for diffusion coefficients in multicomponent non-ideal gas or liquid mixtures. The derivation is based on the general statistical theory of fluctuations around an equilibrium state. The matrix of diffusion coefficients is expressed in terms of the equilibrium...