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20162026
most citedExtended friction elucidates the breakdown of fast water transport in graphene oxide membranes

18 citations · 34 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.DC2026

LBFAST: A Lightweight Moment-Represented Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Multi-GPU Architectures

Marco Lauricella, Andrea Montessori, Giorgio Amati +4

We present LBFAST, a GPU-oriented lattice Boltzmann solver based on a lightweight moment-represented formulation, in which post-collision populations are reconstructed on the fly f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Negative quantum friction in nanoscale water flows: the Wigner picture

Adriano Tiribocchi, Marco Lauricella, Efthimios Kaxiras +1

We explore the phenomenon of "quantum" friction based on a single-particle model patterned after the Wigner equation describing electrons flow in a solid wall confining nanoscale w…

cond-mat.soft2026

Three dimensional contractile droplet under confinement

Adriano Tiribocchi, Marco Lauricella, Andrea Montessori +1

We numerically study the dynamics of a three-dimensional contractile fluid droplet in the bulk and under confinement. We show that varying activity leads to a variety of shapes and…

math.NA2026

Kinetic-based regularization: Learning spatial derivatives and PDE applications

Abhisek Ganguly, Santosh Ansumali, Sauro Succi

Accurate estimation of spatial derivatives from discrete and noisy data is central to scientific machine learning and numerical solutions of PDEs. We extend kinetic-based regulariz…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Adaptive near-contact repulsion in conservative Allen-Cahn phase-field lattice Boltzmann multiphase model

Andrea Montessori, Maria Rosa Lisboa, Marco Lauricella +1

Unresolved thin-film dynamics often causes spurious coalescence in diffuse-interface simulations of multiphase flows. We address this issue by introducing a fully local repulsive n…

physics.flu-dyn2026★ 1 cited

Spontaneous epicuticular charging affects droplet dynamics on living leaves

Mihir Durve, Serena Armiento, Benham Kamare +3

How water droplets move and slide on leaves influences plant ecophysiological and abiotic interactions, as well as the design of advanced bio-inspired wetting materials. Despite cr…

cond-mat.soft2026

Ghost-Mode Filtered Fluctuating Lattice Boltzmann Method

Marco Lauricella, Andrea Montessori, Adriano Tiribocchi +1

Fluctuating lattice Boltzmann solvers are widely employed to model mesoscopic fluid behavior in soft-matter systems, including colloidal suspensions and dilute polymer solutions. D…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Representation of Typical Droplet Shapes in 2D Latent Space

Mihir Durve, Jean-Michel Tucny Andrea Montessori, Marco Lauricella +1

In this study, we investigate the clustering of 5000 droplets, each originating from one of five distinct droplet classes, each representing a unique geometry. The shape coordinate…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Randomness and signal propagation in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs): A neural PDE perspective

Jean-Michel Tucny, Abhisek Ganguly, Santosh Ansumali +1

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often exhibit weight matrices that appear statistically random after training, yet their implications for signal propagation and stability…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 3 cited

Regularized Fluctuating Lattice Boltzmann Model

Marco Lauricella, Andrea Montessori, Adriano Tiribocchi +1

We introduce a regularized fluctuating lattice Boltzmann model (Reg-FLBM) for the D3Q27 lattice, which incorporates thermal fluctuations through Hermite-based projections to ensure…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Algorithm for the Fixed-Radius Neighbor Search

Luca Cappelli, Claudio Sanavio, Alessandro Andrea Zecchi +2

Neighbor search is a computationally demanding problem, usually both time- and memory-consuming. The main problem of this kind of algorithms is the long execution time due to cache…

physics.comp-ph2025

Is the end of Insight in Sight ?

Jean-Michel Tucny, Mihir Durve, Sauro Succi

The rise of deep learning challenges the longstanding scientific ideal of insight - the human capacity to understand phenomena by uncovering underlying mechanisms. In many modern a…

physics.flu-dyn2025

accLB: A High-Performance Lattice Boltzmann Code for Multiphase Turbulence on Multi-Gpu Architectures

Marco Lauricella, Aritra Mukherjee, Luca Brandt +3

In this work, we present accLB, a high-performance Fortran-based lattice Boltzmann (LB) solver tailored to multiphase turbulent flows on multi-GPU architectures. The code couples a…

physics.comp-ph2025

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for microflows: Rarefied Gas Dynamics in Cylinder Arrays

Jean-Michel Tucny, Marco Lauricella, Mihir Durve +3

Accurate prediction of rarefied gas dynamics is crucial for optimizing flows through microelectromechanical systems, air filtration devices, and shale gas extraction. Traditional m…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Thread-safe multiphase lattice Boltzmann model for droplet and bubble dynamics at high density and viscosity contrasts

Marco Lauricella, Adriano Tiribocchi, Sauro Succi +4

This study presents a high-order, thread-safe version of the lattice Boltzmann (LBM) method, incorporating an interface-capturing equation, based on the conservative Allen-Cahn equ…

hep-th2024

Cosmological implications of the minimum viscosity principle

P. G. Tello, Sauro Succi

It is shown that black holes in a quark gluon plasma (QGP) obeying minimum viscosity bounds, exhibit a Schwarzschild radius in close match with the range of the strong force. For s…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Minimal droplet shape representation in experimental microfluidics using Fourier series and autoencoders

Mihir Durve, Jean-Michel Tucny, Sibilla Orsini +6

We introduce a two-step, fully reversible process designed to project the outer shape of a generic droplet onto a lower-dimensional space. The initial step involves representing th…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Droplet shape representation using Fourier series and autoencoders

Mihir Durve, Jean-Michel Tucny, Deepesh Bhamre +4

The shape of liquid droplets in air plays an important role in aerodynamic behavior and combustion dynamics of miniaturized propulsion systems such as microsatellites and small dro…

physics.comp-ph2024

Keldysh-Lattice Boltzmann approach to quantum nanofluidics

Sauro Succi, Andrea Montessori

We present a mathematical and computational framework to couple the Keldysh non equilibrium quantum transport formalism with a nanoscale lattice Boltzmann method for the computatio…

physics.flu-dyn2024

High-order thread-safe lattice Boltzmann model for HPC turbulent flow simulations

Andrea Montessori, Michele La Rocca, Giorgio Amati +3

We present a highly-optimized thread-safe lattice Boltzmann model in which the non-equilibrium part of the distribution function is locally reconstructed via recursivity of Hermite…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 3 cited

Extrinsic and intrinsic effects setting viscosity in complex fluids and life processes: the role of fundamental physical constants

K. Trachenko, P. G. Tello, S. A. Kauffman +1

Understanding the values and origin of fundamental physical constants, one of the grandest challenges in modern science, has been discussed in particle physics, astronomy and cosmo…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 8 cited

Quantum wave representation of dissipative fluids

L. Salasnich, S. Succi, A. Tiribocchi

We present a mapping between a Schrödinger equation with a shifted non-linear potential and the Navier-Stokes equation. Following a generalization of the Madelung transformations,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 18 cited

Extended friction elucidates the breakdown of fast water transport in graphene oxide membranes

A. Montessori, C. A. Amadei, G. Falcucci +3

The understanding of water transport in graphene oxide (GO) membranes stands out as a major theoretical problem in graphene research. Notwithstanding the intense efforts devoted to…