S elf-organization has been a hot topic in the second half of last century when physicists and chemists discovered a variety of nonequilibrium phenomena that could be subsumed under a common heading. Self-organizing systems form ordered states in space and time spontaneously and without an external template. The patterns are characterized as dissipative structures because their maintenance requ...

Gas flow and heat transfer in confined geometries at micro-and nanoscales differ considerably from those macro-scales, mainly due to nonequilibrium effects such as velocity slip temperature jump. Nonequilibrium increase with a decrease the characteristic length-scale of fluid or gas density, leading failure standard Navier–Stokes–Fourier (NSF) equations predicting thermal fields. The direct sim...

A reactive distillation column in general can exhibit multiple steady states which reduce column operability and controllability during perturbations of manipulated variables and particularly during start-up and shut down. The objective of this paper was to compare the equilibrium (EQ) and nonequilibrium (NEQ) models of a reactive distillation column, focusing on the phenomenon of multiple stea...

The conformations of semiflexible (bio)polymers are studied in flow-through geometrically structured microchannels. Using mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations, we show that the polymer undergoes a rod-to-helix transition as it moves from the narrow high-velocity region into the wide low-velocity region of the channel. The transient helix formation is the result of a nonequilibrium and nonstation...

Edney type IV and type VII shock-shock interactions are complex hypersonic flow phenomena. They are characterized by a supersonic jet which reaches far into the flow field. An experimental investigation of the inner jet structure is difficult, especially in cases where the jet is subject to high-frequency unsteady movements. The present paper provides insight into the jet structure by means of ...

We show by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations that the Navier-Stokes equation does not correctly describe water flow in a nanoscale geometry. It is argued that this failure reflects the fact that the coupling between the intrinsic rotational and translational degrees of freedom becomes important for nanoflows. The coupling is correctly accounted for by the extended Navier-Stokes equa...

The Josephson current in a diffusive superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with precessing magnetization is calculated within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. When the junction is phase biased, a stationary current (without ac component) can flow through it despite the nonequilibrium condition. A large critical current is predicted due to a dynamically induced long r...