Publications associées à Propriété macroscopique

Multiscale biomolecular simulations in the exascale era

The complexity of biological systems and processes, spanning molecular to macroscopic scales, necessitates the use of multiscale simulations to get a comprehensive understanding. lar dynamics (MD) simulations are crucial for capturing processes beyond the ...

Current Biology Ltd2024

Topological photonic transport in disordered scattering networks

Zhechen Zhang

This Ph.D. thesis unveils the unique topological phenomena occurring in such networks, focusing on the intricate interplay between their Floquet topology, the presence of disorder, and their unitary scattering at microscopic and macroscopic scales. Using t ...

EPFL2024

An Elliptic Local Problem With Exponential Decay Of The Resonance Error For Numerical Homogenization

Assyr Abdulle, Doghonay Arjmand, Edoardo Paganoni

Numerical multiscale methods usually rely on some coupling between a macroscopic and a microscopic model. The macroscopic model is incomplete as effective quantities, such as the homogenized material coefficients or fluxes, are missing in the model. These ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2023

Modeling the mechanics and rheology of porous and granular media: an elastoplastic continuum approach

Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny

The complex mechanics of porous and granular media play a significant role in various industrial processes and natural phenomena. As an example, understanding the mechanics of how failure occurs, localizes and propagates in porous brittle solids under vari ...

EPFL2023

Electromagnetic forces in the time domain

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev

We look beyond the standard time-average approach and investigate optical forces in the time domain. The formalism is developed for both the Abraham and Minkowski momenta, which appear to converge in the time domain. We unveil an extremely rich - and by fa ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

The effect of high relative humidity on a network of water-sensitive particles (couscous) as revealed by in situ X-ray tomography

Gioacchino Viggiani, Edward Carlo Giorgio Andò

Water significantly influences the mechanical behaviour of all granular materials but none as much as hygroscopic amorphous particles. With sufficiently high water content, particles can swell, agglomerate and their mechanical properties can be reduced, ha ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Filtered data and eigenfunction estimators for statistical inference of multiscale and interacting diffusion processes

Andrea Zanoni

We study the problem of learning unknown parameters of stochastic dynamical models from data. Often, these models are high dimensional and contain several scales and complex structures. One is then interested in obtaining a reduced, coarse-grained descript ...

EPFL2022

Probing Surfactant Bilayer Interactions by Tracking Optically Trapped Single Nanoparticles

Olivier Martin, Jeonghyeon Kim

Single-particle tracking and optical tweezers are powerful techniques for studying diverse processes at the microscopic scale. The stochastic behavior of a microscopic particle contains information about its interaction with surrounding molecules, and an o ...

WILEY2022

A parabolic local problem with exponential decay of the resonance error for numerical homogenization

Assyr Abdulle, Doghonay Arjmand, Edoardo Paganoni

This paper aims at an accurate and efficient computation of effective quantities, e.g. the homogenized coefficients for approximating the solutions to partial differential equations with oscillatory coefficients. Typical multiscale methods are based on a m ...

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD2021

Asymmetric Metal-Dielectric Metacylinders and Their Potential Applications From Engineering Scattering Patterns to Spatial Optical Signal Processing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Ali Momeni, Mahdi Safari

We propose a bianisotropic hybrid metal-dielectric structure comprising dielectric and metallic cylindrical wedges wherein the composite metacylinder enables advanced control of electric, magnetic, and magnetoelectric resonances. We establish a theoretical ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Prediction of Self-Assembled Dewetted Nanostructures for Photonics Applications via a Continuum-Mechanics Framework

François Gallaire, Fabien Sorin, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier

When a liquid film lies on a nonwettable substrate, the configuration is unstable, and the film spontaneously ruptures to form droplets. This phenomenon, known as dewetting, commonly leads to undesirable morphological changes. Nevertheless, recent works, c ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Long decay length of magnon-polarons in BiFeO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 heterostructures

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Dirk Grundler, Mohammad Hamdi, Peng Gao, Haiming Yu, Yu Zhang, Jilei Chen, Jianyu Zhang

Magnons can transfer information in metals and insulators without Joule heating, and therefore are promising for low-power computation. The on-chip magnonics however suffers from high losses due to limited magnon decay length. In metallic thin films, it is ...

Nature Research2021

Surfactants Control Optical Trapping near a Glass Wall

Olivier Martin, Jeonghyeon Kim

Beyond their original capability to grab and hold tiny objects, optical tweezers have emerged as a powerful tool to investigate fundamental physics at microscopic scales. A precise characterization of the optical trap is one of the key requirements in such ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Ultralong, complexly structured micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses and fibers

Grégoire Courtine, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Inès Richard

The present invention and its embodiments propose a simple, unique, and scalable method for producing extremely long, highly uniform, and well-ordered micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses via thermal drawing the method comprising at least the steps of pre ...

2020

Atomic scale symmetry and polar nanoclusters in the paraelectric phase of ferroelectric materials

Dragan Damjanovic, Emad Oveisi, Sina Hashemi Zadeh, Takuya Hoshina

The nature of the "forbidden" local- and long-range polar order in nominally nonpolar paraelectric phases of ferroelectric materials has been an open question since the discovery of ferroelectricity in oxide perovskites (ABO3). A currently considered model ...

Nature Research2021

Linking trajectory data collected with a swarm of drones to the underlying urban network for macroscopic traffic parameter estimation

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis

Recently, an open-data initiative was announced with one of the most complete datasets to study urban congestion. The pNEUMA dataset consists of more than half a million trajectories in heterogeneous traffic. In order to utilize the dataset for macroscopic ...

2020

Temporal upscaling in micromagnetism via heterogeneous multiscale methods

Doghonay Arjmand

We consider a multiscale strategy addressing the disparate scales in the Landau-Lifschitz equations in micromagnetism. At the microscopic scale, the dynamics of magnetic moments are driven by a high frequency field. On the macroscopic scale we are interest ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Electron density learning of non-covalent systems

Michele Ceriotti, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Benjamin André René Meyer, Andrea Grisafi

Chemists continuously harvest the power of non-covalent interactions to control phenomena in both the micro- and macroscopic worlds. From the quantum chemical perspective, the strategies essentially rely upon an in-depth understanding of the physical origi ...

2019

The role of atomistic simulations in probing hydrogen effects on plasticity and embrittlement in metals

William Curtin, Ali Tehranchi

Atomistic simulations are a powerful complement to experimental probes for understanding the nanoscale processes associated with the effects of hydrogen (H) on plasticity and fracture that are the underlying causes of hydrogen embrittlement (HE). Current e ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Impact of in situ nanomechanics on physical metallurgy

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Johann Michler, Efthymios Polatidis

The mechanical response of modern alloys results from a complex interplay between existing microstructure and its evolution with time under stress. To unravel these processes, in situ approaches intrinsically have a critical advantage to explore the basic ...

2019