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Global existence for perturbations of the 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with space-time white noise

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Springernature2024

Friction and fracture: richness and complexity in dynamic rupture

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A Fast Hybrid Pressure-Correction Algorithm for Simulating Incompressible Flows by Projection Methods

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Lattice Green's function method for Atomistic/Continuum coupling

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Permeability sets the linear path instability of buoyancy-driven disks

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Cambridge University Press2023

Electromagnetic Forces and Torques: From Dielectrophoresis to Optical Tweezers

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Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through atomistic simulations

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When two rough surfaces slide against each other, two main behaviors can be observed at the asperity level: A ductile behavior where the asperities tend to smooth out or a brittle behavior where the asperities detach and form debris. Recently, a critical l ...

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Modeling the origins of adhesive wear across scales

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Friction and wear occur at every interface between solid materials. In the design of mechanical devices, it is desirable to be able to quantify and control the amount of friction and wear, as well as predict their evolution with time. ``Tribology'' is the ...

EPFL2022

Adhesive wear with a coarse-grained discrete element model

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The use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has led to promising results to unravel the atomistic origins of adhesive wear, and in particular for the onset of wear at nanoscale surface asperities. However, MD simulations come with a high computational c ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Effect of wear particles and roughness on nanoscale friction

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Tobias Brink

Frictional contacts lead to the formation of a surface layer called the third body, consisting of wear particles and structures resulting from their agglomerates. Its behavior and properties at the nanoscale control the macroscopic tribological performance ...

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Modelling electronic transport in monocrystalline metal oxide gas sensors: from the surface kinetics to the experimental response

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Gas sensing systems and devices based on metal oxides are widely spreading due to their high performance in terms of sensor response and relatively low costs. Despite several experimental studies, as well as molecular simulations, are available in the lite ...

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A mixture model to take into account diluted gas in liquid flow: applications to aluminium electrolysis

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Microscale hydrodynamic confinements: shaping liquids across length scales as a toolbox in life sciences

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Mass-Zero constrained dynamics and statistics for the shell model in magnetic field

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EDP Sciences, Springer2021

Adhesive wear regimes on rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts

Jean-François Molinari, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba

We develop an analytical model of adhesive wear between two unlubricated rough surfaces, forming micro-contacts under normal load. The model is based on an energy balance and a crack initiation criteria. We apply the model to the problem of self-affine rou ...

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Transferable machine-learning models of complex materials: the case of GaAs

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Molecular simulations allow to investigate the behaviour of materials at the atomistic level, shedding light on phenomena that cannot be directly observed in experiments. Accurate results can be obtained with ab initio methods, while simulations of large-s ...

EPFL2021

Onset of sliding across scales: How the contact topography impacts frictional strength

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Ramin Aghababaei

When two solids start rubbing together, frictional sliding initiates in the wake of slip fronts propagating along their surfaces in contact. This macroscopic rupture dynamics can be successfully mapped on the elastodynamics of a moving shear crack. However ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

A parameter-free mechanistic model of the adhesive wear process of rough surfaces in sliding contact

Jean-François Molinari, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Tobias Brink

In order to develop predictive wear laws, relevant material parameters and their influence on the wear rate need to be identified. Despite decades of research, there is no agreement on the mathematical form of wear equations and even the simplest models, s ...

2021

Molecular simulations of interfacial systems: challenges, applications and future perspectives

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We present a comprehensive review of methods and applications of molecular simulations of interfacial systems. We give a detailed overview of the main techniques and major challenges in the following aspects of solid and fluid surfaces: adsorption at solid ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

Structure-Preserving Reduced Basis Methods For Poisson Systems

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AMER MATHEMATICAL SOC2021