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Wormholes are non-trivial topological structures that arise as exact solutions to Einstein's field equations, theoretically connecting distinct regions of spacetime via a throat-like geometry. While static traversable wormholes necessarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Simulations of fluid flow in naturally fractured rocks have implications for several subsurface applications, including energy storage and extraction, and waste storage. We are interested in flow in discrete fracture networks, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alessio Fumagalli , Eirik Keilegavlen , Stefano Scialò

Dark matter halos are common in galaxies and globular clusters, making it possible to use dark matter density profiles to construct transverse wormholes. In reference [1], an approximate solution of the traversable wormhole satisfying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Zhaoyi Xu

Lack of a consistent metric for generating rotating wormholes motivates us to present a new one endowed with interesting physical and geometrical properties. When combined with the generalized method of superposition of fields, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-07 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou

A pore-scale numerical model for reactive transport processes based on the Lattice Boltzmann method is used to study the dissolution-induced changes in hydrologic properties of a fractured medium and a porous medium. The solid phase of both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Li Chen , Qinjun Kang , Hari S. Viswanathan , Wenquan Tao

We provide a simple but very useful description of the process of wormhole formation. We place two massive objects in two parallel universes (modeled by two branes). Gravitational attraction between the objects competes with the resistance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 De-Chang Dai , Djordje Minic , Dejan Stojkovic

The solutions of traversable wormholes and their geometries are investigated in higher-curvature gravity with boundary terms for each case under the presence of anisotropic, isotropic and barotropic fluids in detail. For each case, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 M. Ilyas , Kazuharu Bamba

This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

Generalizing of the Maxwell field to nonlinear electrodynamics theories, we look for the magnetic solutions. In initial approximation these models give the usual linear electrodynamics. We consider a suitable metric and investigate the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 S. H. Hendi

The paper presents results of numerical experiments performed to evaluate the effective viscosity of a fluid-proppant mixture, used in hydraulic fracturing. The results, obtained by two complimenting methods (the particle dynamics and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-30 Vitaly A. Kuzkin , Anton M. Krivtsov , Aleksandr M. Linkov

The ``moving puncture'' technique has led to dramatic advancements in the numerical simulations of binary black holes. Hannam et.al. have recently demonstrated that, for suitable gauge conditions commonly employed in moving puncture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stephen G. Naculich

The study of traversable wormholes is very hot topic for the past 30 years. One of the best possible way to make traversable wormhole is using the thin-shells to cut and paste two spacetime which has tunnel from one region of space-time to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 Ali Övgün

The number and position of unstable critical curves, as well as the nature of the accretion disk around compact objects, play a fundamental role in their optical appearance. Identifying differences in the optical spectrum of various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 A. Rueda , E. Contreras

We study spherically symmetric, self-similar wormhole solutions supported by colliding streams of negative-energy null dust, and their dynamical formation. Under the assumption of self-similarity, the Einstein equations reduce to a system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Yasutaka Koga , Ryota Maeda , Daiki Saito , Daisuke Yoshida

In this work, we investigate the existence of wormholes within the framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology, using isotropic dark matter as the source. We analyze three distinct density profiles and solve the modified gravity field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Marcos V. de S. Silva , G. Alencar , R. N. Costa Filho , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

A wormhole is constructed by cutting and joining two spacetimes satisfying the low energy string equations with a dilaton field. In spacetimes described by the "string metric" the dilaton energy-momentum tensor need not satisfy the weak or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Dan N. Vollick

A new Monte Carlo move for polymer simulations is presented. The ``wormhole'' move is build out of reptation steps and allows a polymer to reptate through a hole in space; it is able to completely displace a polymer in time N^2 (with N the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Houdayer

Applying the Darmois-Israel thin shell formalism, we construct static and dynamic thin shells around traversable wormholes. Firstly, by applying the cut-and-paste technique we apply a linearized stability analysis to thin-shell wormholes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco S. N. Lobo

This study presents new spherically symmetric and dynamical wormhole solutions supported by ordinary matter modeled as an anisotropic fluid, exhibiting a traversable nature. To achieve this goal, we adopt different approaches to obtain both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 M. Zubair , Hina Azmat , Quratulien Muneer , Saira Waheed , M. B. Cruz

In this work, we studied the boundary wormhole fluctuations of AdS$_{3}$ spacetime and their impact on false vacuum decay. The model consists of three dimensional general relativity coupled to a real scalar field with self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Hong Wang , Jin Wang