Analysis of the Mean Field Free Energy Functional of Electrolyte Solution with Nonhomogenous Boundary Conditions and the Generalized PB/PNP Equations with Inhomogeneous Dielectric Permittivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 1131-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuejiao Liu ◽  
Yu Qiao ◽  
Benzhuo Lu
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Dielectric Permittivity ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Electrolyte Solution ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Free Energy Functional ◽  
Inhomogeneous Dielectric ◽  
The Mean

MODIFIED VAN DER WAALS MODEL FOR SURFACE-MELTING DISCUSSION

1995 ◽  
Vol 02 (06) ◽  
pp. 773-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. WOJTCZAK ◽  
J.H. RUTKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Potential ◽  
Van Der Waals ◽  
Mean Field Theory ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Surface Melting ◽  
Free Energy Functional ◽  
Thickness Profile ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Surface Liquid

The thermodynamic potential governing the surface-melting, considered in terms of the crystallinity and its profile is related to the Gibbs free-energy functional, leads to van der Waals equation of state. The presented construction allows us to determine the mean-field coefficients by their reference to material constants. The model is applied to the surface-melting discussion within the Landau-type mean-field theory of phase-transitions. In particular, the surface-melting temperature is estimated and temperature dependence of the surface liquid-like layer thickness profile is obtained.

scholarly journals On the Kirchhoff-Love Hypothesis (Revised and Vindicated)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Ozenda ◽  
Epifanio G. Virga
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Dimension Reduction ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
The Other ◽  
Variational Model ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Elastic Plates ◽  
Kinematic Constraint ◽  
Free Energy Functional

AbstractThe Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis expresses a kinematic constraint that is assumed to be valid for the deformations of a three-dimensional body when one of its dimensions is much smaller than the other two, as is the case for plates. This hypothesis has a long history checkered with the vicissitudes of life: even its paternity has been questioned, and recent rigorous dimension-reduction tools (based on standard $\varGamma $ Γ -convergence) have proven to be incompatible with it. We find that an appropriately revised version of the Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis is a valuable means to derive a two-dimensional variational model for elastic plates from a three-dimensional nonlinear free-energy functional. The bending energies thus obtained for a number of materials also show to contain measures of stretching of the plate’s mid surface (alongside the expected measures of bending). The incompatibility with standard $\varGamma $ Γ -convergence also appears to be removed in the cases where contact with that method and ours can be made.

scholarly journals Droplet minimizers for the Gates–Lebowitz–Penrose free energy functional

Nonlinearity ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 2919-2952 ◽  
Author(s):  
E A Carlen ◽  
M C Carvalho ◽  
R Esposito ◽  
J L Lebowitz ◽  
R Marra
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Free Energy Functional

scholarly journals Droplet minimizers for the Cahn-Hilliard free energy functional

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Carlen ◽  
M. C. Carvalho ◽  
R. Esposito ◽  
J. L. Lebowitz ◽  
R. Marra
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Free Energy Functional

scholarly journals Homogenization of composite ferromagnetic materials

2015 ◽  
Vol 471 (2182) ◽  
pp. 20150365 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Alouges ◽  
Giovanni Di Fratta
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Ferromagnetic Material ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Ferromagnetic Materials ◽  
Rigorous Derivation ◽  
Free Energy Functional ◽  
Landau Free Energy ◽  
Ferromagnetic Body ◽  
The Media

The objective of this paper is to perform, by means of Γ - convergence and two-scale convergence , a rigorous derivation of the homogenized Gibbs–Landau free energy functional associated with a composite periodic ferromagnetic material, i.e. a ferromagnetic material in which the heterogeneities are periodically distributed inside the media. We thus describe the Γ -limit of the Gibbs–Landau free energy functional, as the period over which the heterogeneities are distributed inside the ferromagnetic body shrinks to zero.

Classical and semiclassical dynamics in statistical environments with a mixed dynamical and statistical representation

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1771-1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Takatsuka ◽  
Kentaro Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
Chemical Dynamics ◽  
Functional Surface ◽  
Spatial Gradients ◽  
Free Energy Functional ◽  
Statistical Representation ◽  
Semiclassical Dynamics

We present a basic theory to study real-time chemical dynamics embedded in a statistically treated large environment. It is shown that dynamically treated molecules should run on the free-energy functional surface, if and only if the spatial gradients of temperature functional are all zero.

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