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Kinetic processes in fractal stellar media are analysed in terms of the approach developed in our earlier paper (Chumak \& Rastorguev, 2015) involving a generalization of the nearest neighbour and random force distributions to fractal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Oleg V. Chumak , Alexey S. Rastorguev

Wave manipulation is essential in various applications, including seismic wave protection, sound isolation, and acoustic device design. This study examines the scattering and trapping of antiplane SH waves in a microstructured solid…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 E. Alevras , Th. Zisis , P. A. Gourgiotis

We develop stochastic mixed finite element methods for spatially adaptive simulations of fluid-structure interactions when subject to thermal fluctuations. To account for thermal fluctuations, we introduce a discrete fluctuation-dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Pat Plunkett , Jon Hu , Chris Siefert , Paul J. Atzberger

The multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process is used in many branches of science and engineering to describe the regression of a system to its stationary mean. Here we present an $O(N)$ Bayesian method to estimate the drift and diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Rajesh Singh , Dipanjan Ghosh , R. Adhikari

Nonperturbative polaron variational methods are applied, within the so-called particle or worldline representation of relativistic field theory, to study scattering in the context of the scalar Wick - Cutkosky model. Important features of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Alexandrou , R. Rosenfelder , A. W. Schreiber

We focus on the dynamics of a Brownian particle whose mass fluctuates. First we show that the behaviour is similar to that of a Brownian particle moving in a fluctuating medium, as studied by Beck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 180601]. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Lambiotte , M. Ausloos

Data series generated by complex systems exhibit fluctuations on many time scales and/or broad distributions of the values. In both equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations, the natural fluctuations are often found to follow a scaling…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-07 Jan W. Kantelhardt

In this paper,we present a detailed formulation to solve the scattering wave function for a multi-terminal mesoscopic system with spin-orbit coupling. In addition to terminal currents, all local quantities can be calculated explicitly by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

The density fluctuations of nuclear matter are studied within a mean-field model in wich fluctuations are generated by an external stochastic field. The constraints imposed on the random force by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Matera , A. Dellafiore

We propose a methodology to measure the mechanical properties of membranes from their fluctuations and apply this to optical microscopy measurements of giant unilamellar vesicles of lipids. We analyze the effect of the projection of thermal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-17 S. Alex Rautu , Davide Orsi , Lorenzo Di Michele , George Rowlands , Pietro Cicuta , Matthew S. Turner

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

This paper presents the analysis and characterization of the surface scattering process for both specular and diffused components. The study is focused on the investigation of various building materials each having a different roughness, at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-17 Angelos A. Goulianos , Alberto L. Freire , Tom Barratt , Evangelos Mellios , Peter Cain , Moray Rumney , Andrew Nix , Mark Beach

Scattering of optical waves by a multi-scale rough mirror surface as a phase screen is considered. To solve the problem we used the diffusion phase approximation and numerical model of a phase jump. The scattering intensity was averaged…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 P. A. Golovinsky , D. K. Proskurin

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy is a powerful technique which consists in measuring the temporal correlation function of the intensity of light multiply scattered by a medium. In this paper, we apply this technique to cold atoms under purely…

We present a consistent method to calculate the probability distribution of soliton parameters in systems with additive noise. Even though a weak noise is considered, we are interested in probabilities of large fluctuations (generally…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Falkovich , I. Kolokolov , V. Lebedev , S. Turitsyn

We study analytically the development of gravitational instability in an expanding shell having finite thickness. We consider three models for the radial density profile of the shell: (i) an analytic uniform-density model, (ii) a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Richard Wunsch , James E. Dale , Jan Palous , Anthony P. Whitworth

We propose a novel method to measure the fractal dimension of a submonolayer metal adatom system grown under conditions of limited diffusivity on a surface. The method is based on measuring the specular peak attenuation of He atoms…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 D. A. Hamburger , A. T. Yinnon , R. B. Gerber

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

The thermal fluctuation spectrum of a fluid membrane coupled harmonically to a solid support by an array of tethers is calculated. For strong tethers, this spectrum exhibits non-monotonic, anisotropic behavior with a relative maximum at a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-08 Rolf-Juergen Merath , Udo Seifert