Extended Structural Dynamics and the Lorentz Abraham Dirac Equation: A Deformable Charge Interpretation

This paper resolves the well-known pathologies of the Lorentz Abraham Dirac equation by modeling charged particles as finite, deformable spheres with internal breathing modes, thereby deriving a causal radiation reaction force that eliminates pre-acceleration and runaway solutions while providing a mechanical interpretation of the Schott term as reversible internal energy storage.

Patrick BarAviFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Micropatterning photopolymerizable hydrogels for diffusion studies using pillar arrays or photomasks

This paper presents two novel microfluidic platforms—one utilizing pillar arrays and the other employing a custom Pt-coated PMMA photomask—for the in situ micropatterning of PEGDA-PEG hydrogels to enable precise control and tracking of molecular diffusion for diverse applications ranging from biosensing to drug delivery.

Sevgi Onal, Edmondo Battista, Hilal Nasir, Fabio Formiggini, Valentina Mollo, Raffaele Vecchione, Paolo NettiFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

High-order gas-kinetic scheme for numerical simulations of wind turbine with nacelle and tower using ALM and IBM

This paper presents a novel high-order gas-kinetic scheme integrated with the actuator line model and immersed boundary method on GPUs to accurately simulate three-dimensional wind turbine flows, including nacelle and tower effects, while validating its ability to capture complex wake interactions and turbulent statistics against experimental data.

Pengyu Huo, Liang Pan, Guiyu Cao, Baoqing Meng, Baolin Tian, Yubo HuangFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Enhanced Seismicity Monitoring in the Rapid Scientific Response to the 2025 Santorini Crisis

By applying a deep learning workflow to seismic data from the 2025 Santorini-Amorgos crisis, researchers expanded the earthquake catalogue from 4,000 to 80,000 events, revealing unprecedented fluid-driven volcanic-tectonic swarms and identifying a new deep magmatic reservoir beneath Anydros Islet.

Margarita Segou, Foteini Dervisi, Xing Tan, Rajat Choudhary, Patricia Martínez-Garzón, Francesco Scotto di Uccio, Gregory Beroza, Genny Giacomuzzi, Claudio Chiarabba, Wayne Shelley, Stephanie Prejean, Jeremy Pesicek, John J. Wellik, Marco Bohnhoff, David Pyle, Costas Synolakis, Tom Parsons, Athanassios Ganas, William Ellsworth, Brian Baptie, Gaetano Festa, Piero Poli, Warner MarzocchiFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Differentiable Programming for Plasma Physics: From Diagnostics to Discovery and Design

This paper demonstrates that differentiable programming, enabled by automatic differentiation, serves as a versatile framework in plasma physics that not only accelerates traditional design and inference tasks but also enables novel capabilities such as discovering new nonlinear phenomena, learning hidden kinetic variables for fluid models, and performing high-dimensional inverse design.

A. S. Joglekar, A. G. R. Thomas, A. L. Milder, K. G. Miller, J. P. Palastro, D. H. FroulaFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Reliable Viscosity Calculation from High-Pressure Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics: Case Study of 2,2,4-Trimethylhexane

This study extends the STACIE algorithm by incorporating a Lorentz model and additional pressure tensor components to enable reliable, automated, and uncertainty-quantified viscosity calculations for 2,2,4-trimethylhexane under high pressures, demonstrating that long equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations can achieve experimental accuracy (<6% error) where previous methods failed due to insufficient sampling.

Gözdenur Toraman, Dieter Fauconnier, Toon VerstraelenFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Integral analysis based diagnostics of turbulence model errors in skin friction

This paper proposes an Angular Momentum Integral (AMI) based diagnostics framework to systematically isolate and quantify physical mechanism-specific errors in turbulence models, revealing that while standard Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models may accurately predict skin friction through strong error cancellation in simple flows, they exhibit significant, non-canceling errors in complex separated flows that require mechanism-resolved analysis for targeted improvement.

Shyam S. Nair, Vishal A. Wadhai, Robert F. Kunz, Xiang I. A. YangFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Leveraging higher-order time integration methods for improved computational efficiency in a rainshaft model

This paper demonstrates that replacing first-order time integration with higher-order Runge-Kutta methods and adaptive time stepping in the E3SMv3 rain microphysics model significantly improves computational efficiency and accuracy, achieving over 10x speedup compared to the default scheme while eliminating the need for stability-limiting ad hoc procedures.

Justin Dong, Sean P. Santos, Steven B. Roberts, Christopher J. Vogl, Carol S. WoodwardFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Laminar-to-Turbulent Transition of Yield-Stress Fluids in Pipe and Channel Flows

This paper presents the first direct numerical simulations resolving the complete laminar-to-turbulent transition in Herschel-Bulkley yield-stress fluids across pipes and channels, revealing that transition occurs only when local Reynolds stresses exceed the yield stress and identifying a critical generalized Reynolds number range of approximately 2000 to 3000 where turbulence sharply emerges.

Shivam Prajapati, Prasoon Suchandra, Vivek Kumar, Ardalan Javadi, Suhas Jain, Cyrus AidunFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

On the deformation of a shear thinning viscoelastic drop in a steady electric field

This study utilizes numerical simulations to characterize the deformation and breakup dynamics of shear-thinning viscoelastic drops in steady electric fields, revealing that while behavior in certain parameter regions resembles Newtonian fluids, others exhibit complex non-monotonic responses to elasticity and distinct shape transitions like multi-lobed or conical formations depending on conductivity and permittivity ratios.

Sarika Shivaji Bangar (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India), Gaurav Tomar (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India)Fri, 13 Ma🔬 physics

Stochastic single-stage stellarator optimization using fixed-boundary equilibria

This paper introduces a stochastic single-stage stellarator optimization method that combines fixed-boundary MHD equilibria with randomly perturbed coils to avoid sharp local minima and produce more robust quasi-symmetric configurations with improved flux, symmetry, and particle confinement compared to existing deterministic and two-stage approaches.

Pedro F. Gil, Jason Smoniewski, Rogerio Jorge, Paul Huslage, Eve V. StensonFri, 13 Ma🔬 physics