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In this work, we investigate a novel approach for the simulation of two-dimensional, brittle, quasi-static fracture problems based on a shape optimization approach. In contrast to the commonly-used phase-field approach, this proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tim Suchan , Winnifried Wollner , Kathrin Welker

Fractals are defined as geometric shapes that exhibit symmetry of scale. This simply implies that fractal is a shape that it would still look the same even if somebody could zoom in on one of its parts an infinite number of times. This…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Ioannis Haranas , Ioannis Gkigkitzis , Athanasios Alexiou

In mechanical systems it is of interest to know the onset of fracture in dependence of the boundary conditions. Here we study a one-dimensional model which allows for an underlying heterogeneous structure in the discrete setting. Such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Laura Lauerbach , Stefan Neukamm , Mathias Schäffner , Anja Schlömerkemper

The marriage of density functional theory (DFT) and deep learning methods has the potential to revolutionize modern computational materials science. Here we develop a deep neural network approach to represent DFT Hamiltonian (DeepH) of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

A mathematical method for constructing fractal curves and surfaces, termed the $p\lambda n$ fractal decomposition, is presented. It allows any function to be split into a finite set of fractal discontinuous functions whose sum is equal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

The dark silicon problem, which limits the power-growth of future computer generations, is interpreted as a heat energy transport problem when increasing the energy emitting surface area within a given volume. A comparison of two…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Richard Herrmann

Optical scattering strength of fractal optical disordered media with varying fractal dimension is reported. The diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) technique is used to generate fractal samples in 2D and 3D, and fractal dimensions are…

This paper delves into the world of fractal calculus, investigating its implications for fractal sets. It introduces the Fractal Schr\"{o}dinger Equation and provides insights into its consequences. The study presents a General Solution for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Stergios Pellis , Massimiliano Zingales

Recent developments in extracting and processing biological and clinical data are allowing quantitative approaches to studying living systems. High-throughput sequencing, expression profiles, proteomics, and electronic health records are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-22 Vladimir Trifonov , Laura Pasqualucci , Riccardo Dalla-Favera , Raul Rabadan

Self-similarity is the essence of fractal images and, as such, characterizes natural stochastic textures. This paper is concerned with the property of self-similarity in the statistical sense in the case of fully-textured images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Samah Khawaled , Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

For self-similar fractals, the Minkowski content and fractal curvature have been introduced as a suitable limit of the geometric characteristics of its parallel sets, i.e., of uniformly thin coatings of the fractal. For some self-conformal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Tilman Johannes Bohl

Fractal concepts have been introduced in the accretion disc as a new feature. Due to the fractal nature of the flow, its continuity condition undergoes modifications. The conserved stationary fractal flow admits only saddle points and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-04 Nirupam Roy , Arnab K. Ray

This paper presents a computational framework for quasi-static brittle fracture in three dimensional solids. The paper set outs the theoretical basis for determining the initiation and direction of propagating cracks based on the concept of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Lukasz Kaczmarczyk , Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad , Chris Pearce

Using a generalized cut vertex expansion we introduce the concept of an extended fracture function for the description of semi-inclusive deep inelastic processes in the target fragmentation region. Extended fracture functions are shown to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Grazzini , L. Trentadue , G. Veneziano

A macroscopic characterization of fractals showing up a structural transition from dense to multibranched growth is made using optical diffraction theory. Such fractals are generated via the numerical solution of the 2D Poisson and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Perez-Rodriguez , Wei Wang , E. Canessa

We consider the concept of fractons, i.e. particles or quasiparticles which obey specific fractal distribution function and for each universal class h of particles we obtain a fractal-deformed Heisenberg algebra. This one takes into account…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wellington da Cruz

This paper serves as a complementary material to a poster presented at the XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe in Corfu, Greece, on June 6th-10th in 2016. In this study, fractal dimension ($D$) of two types of self-affine signals were estimated with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Hana Krakovská , Anna Krakovská

Dynamical zeta functions provide a powerful method to analyze low dimensional dynamical systems when the underlying symbolic dynamics is under control. On the other hand even simple one dimensional maps can show an intricate structure of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Cristadoro

The relationship between geometric and dynamic properties of fractal-like aggregates is studied in the continuum mass and momentum-transfer regimes. The synthetic aggregates were generated by a cluster-cluster aggregation algorithm. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-13 Anastasios D. Melas , Lorenzo Isella , Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos , Yannis Drossinos

The fractal dimension of large-scale galaxy clustering has been demonstrated to be roughly $D_F \sim 2$ from a wide range of redshift surveys. If correct, this statistic is of interest for two main reasons: fractal scaling is an implicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 J. R. Mureika