Irregular Dynamics of the Center of Mass of Droplets

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  • Alexandre B. Almeida University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Author
  • Nicolas Giovambattista Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, New York City, USA Author
  • Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University, New York City, USA Author
  • Adriano M. Alencar University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2018.09.001

Abstract

The understanding of droplets is important to different applications, ranging from wetting to diagnosis of airways condition in the lung. In this work, we performed molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to solve the displacement of center of mass (CM) of droplets, in order to calculate the Hurst exponent in z-coordinate and in the xy-plane. Depending on the confinement condition, the CM motion, can be persistent, anti-persistent, Brownian or confined.

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2018): Regular Issue

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Almeida, A. B., Giovambattista, N., Buldyrev, S. V., & Alencar, A. M. (2026). Irregular Dynamics of the Center of Mass of Droplets. Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 7(3), 223-229. https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2018.09.001

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