Transport phenomena is a research area concerned with the fundamental mechanisms and coupled behavior of momentum, heat, and mass transfer in physical, chemical, and biological systems. It formulates and analyzes balance equations derived from conservation laws, typically expressed as partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes, energy, and species transport equations. The field emphasizes constitutive relations (e.g., Newton’s law of viscosity, Fourier’s law of heat conduction, Fick’s law of diffusion) and dimensionless analysis to characterize regimes and scaling. Transport phenomena underpins modeling, simulation, and optimization across chemical engineering, materials processing, microfluidics, energy systems, and physiological flows.
A team at EPFL and the University of Arizona has discovered that making molecules bigger and more flexible can actually extend the life of quantum charge flow, a finding that could help shape the future of quantum technologies ...
Quantum Physics
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Transistors are the fundamental building blocks behind today's electronic revolution, powering everything from smartphones to powerful servers by controlling the flow of electrical currents. But imagine a parallel world, ...
A new study published in Nature Communications shows, for the first time, how heat moves—or rather, doesn't—between materials in a high-energy-density plasma state.
Plasma Physics
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Picture yourself at a busy pedestrian crossing. When the light is red, everyone waits—until one person starts to cross. Soon, others follow, and eventually everyone follows the crowd and crosses. Amsterdam physicists have ...
General Physics
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When an electric current passes through some materials, it generates a voltage perpendicular to the direction in which the current is flowing and of an applied magnetic field. This physical phenomenon, known as the anomalous ...
An international research team led by Mayukh Kumar Ray, Mingxuan Fu, and Satoru Nakatsuji from the University of Tokyo, along with Collin Broholm from Johns Hopkins University, has discovered the anomalous Hall effect in ...
Condensed Matter
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Imagine if phones never got hot no matter how many apps were running. Picture a future where supercomputers use less energy, electric cars charge faster, and life-saving medical devices stay cooler and last longer.
General Physics
Apr 14, 2025
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Scientists at IMDEA Nanociencia are working on the development of materials whose properties can change as easily as we flip a switch. They focus on joining molecular switching (spin transition), electrical transport properties ...
Nanophysics
Apr 3, 2025
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Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University, have combined high-pressure electrical ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2025
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Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals—materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and magnetism. Now, a team of physicists at Rice University has made a breakthrough in this area ...
General Physics
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