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Motivated by recent experimental and numerical results, a simple unifying picture of intermittency in turbulent shear flows is suggested. Integral Structure Functions (ISF), taking into account explicitly the shear intensity, are introduced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Toschi , E. Leveque , G. Ruiz-Chavarria

To investigate the mechanism of mixing in oscillatory doubly diffusive (ODD) convection, we truncate the horizontal modal expansion of the Boussinesq equations to obtain a simplified model of the process. In the astrophysically interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francesco Paparella , Edward A. Spiegel , Suzanne Talon

Starting with the Fourier integral theorem, we present natural Monte Carlo estimators of multivariate functions including densities, mixing densities, transition densities, regression functions, and the search for modes of multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Nhat Ho , Stephen G. Walker

We perform discrete element method (DEM) simulations of elongated grains in a shear cell for various particle aspect ratios and contact frictions, with an additional heterogeneous force perturbation in the flow direction. For a perturbation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 Sára Lévay , Philippe Claudin , Ellák Somfai , Tamás Börzsönyi

Measurement of the gravitational distortion of images of distant galaxies is rapidly becoming established as a powerful probe of the dark mass distribution in clusters of galaxies. With the advent of large mosaics of CCD's these methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick Kaiser , Gordon Squires , Greg Fahlman , David Woods , Tom Broadhurst

High-resolution numerical simulations are utilized to examine isotropic turbulence in a compressible fluid when long wavelength velocity fluctuations approach light speed. Spectral analysis reveals an inertial sub-range of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

Using a single-scattering theory, we derive the expression of the degree of polarization of the light scattered from a layer exhibiting both surface and volume scattering. The expression puts forward the intimate connection between the…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-07 Jean-Philippe Banon , Ingve Simonsen , Rémi Carminati

We present a numerical investigation of the density fluctuations in a model glass under cyclic shear deformation. At low amplitude of shear, below yielding, the system reaches a steady absorbing state in which density fluctuations are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-22 Saheli Mitra , Giuseppe Foffi , Anshul D. S. Parmar , Premkumar Leishangthem , Srikanth Sastry

We propose a method for reconstruction of the density matrix from measurable time-dependent (probability) distributions of physical quantities. The applicability of the method based on least-squares inversion is - compared with other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 T. Opatrny , D. -G. Welsch , W. Vogel

Experimental Stokes vector spectroscopy characterizes polarization state noise in nonlinear fiber transmission. Noise bandwidths of a few MHz are observed from XPM-blurred receive SOPs using a polarization scrambling interferometer. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Lothar Moeller

We study experimentally the thermal fluctuations of energy input and dissipation in a harmonic oscillator driven out of equilibrium, and search for Fluctuation Relations. We study transient evolution from the equilibrium state, together…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-28 Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas Garnier , Sergio Ciliberto

The tilt, rotation, or offset of each CCD with respect to the focal plane, as well as the distortion of the focal plane itself, cause shape distortions to the observed objects, an effect typically known as field distortion (FD). We point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Hekun Li , Xiangchong Li , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Wentao Luo , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

A fluorescent image analysis procedure to determine the distribution of species concentration and density in a gas flow is proposed. The fluorescent emission is due to the excitation of atoms/molecules of a gas that is intercepted by an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco Belan , Sergio De Ponte , Daniela Tordella

We present new results on the gravitational lensing shear and magnification power spectra obtained from numerical simulations of a flat cosmology with a cosmological constant. These results are of considerable interest since both the shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew J. Barber , A. N. Taylor

In this paper we consider the influence of collisional fluctuations on the Mollow spectra of resonance fluorescence (RF). The fluctuations are taken into account by a simple shift of the constant detuning, involved in a set of optical Bloch…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 K. Doan Quoc , T. Bui Dinh , V. Cao Long , W. Leonski

Accurate estimation of galaxy cluster masses is a central problem in cosmology. Turbulence is believed to introduce significant deviations from the hydrostatic mass estimates. Estimation of turbulence properties is complicated by projection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-04 Mark Bishop , Yvette Perrott , Tulasi Parashar , Sean Oughton

Under an applied traction, highly concentrated suspensions of solid particles in fluids can turn from a state in which they flow to a state in which they counteract the traction as an elastic solid: a shear-jammed state. Remarkably, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-29 Giulio G. Giusteri , Ryohei Seto

Development generating diffraction-related valuable expressions and formulas capable of initiating new era for diffraction and for scientific domains that use it provided. The main expression, among these, gives diffracted intensity as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Noureddine Hadji

We study passive scalar mixing by parallel shear flows in the presence of weak molecular diffusion. We recover the sharp uniform-in-diffusivity mixing rate for shear flows with finitely many critical points, recently proven in [1]. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Kyle L. Liss , Kunhui Luan

Spectral density functions quantify how environmental modes couple to quantum systems and govern their open dynamics. Inferring such frequency-dependent functions from time-domain measurements is an ill-conditioned inverse problem. Here, we…