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In this paper, asymptotic expansions of the distributions and densities of powered extremes for Maxwell samples are considered. The results show that the convergence speeds of normalized partial maxima relies on the powered index.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Jianwen Huang , Xinling Liu , Jianjun Wang , Zhongquan Tan , Jingyao Hou , Hao Pu

The current standard solar models can be improved by substituting the relativistic equilibrium velocity distribution for the Maxwellian velocity distribution. The relativistic equilibrium velocity distribution is close- fitting to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

For explicitly time depending mass density, which satisfies a continuity equation, it is shown that Maxwell-like equations for gravitational field follow naturally without any need of General Relativity Theory approximation or related…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Gustavo V. Lopez

We consider for the full time-dependent Maxwell's equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-08 C. Daveau , A. Khelifi

We study the approximation and stability properties of a recently popularized discretization strategy for the speed variable in kinetic equations, based on pseudo spectral collocation on a grid defined by the zeros of a non-standard family…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet , Antoine J. Cerfon

The Coulomb force, established in the rest frame of a source-charge $Q$, when transformed to a new frame moving with a velocity $\vec{V}$ has a form $\vec{F}= q\vec{{E}} + q\vec{v} \times \vec{{B}}$, where $\vec{{E}}=\vec{E}'_\parallel +…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 Krzysztof Rębilas

Using to a minimum extent special relativity input, and relying on the Lorentz-force expression for the force acting on a charged particle in motion under the influence of electric (E) and magnetic (B) fields, the Maxwell curl equations are…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Avraham Gal

The relaxation rate of a Maxwellian velocity distribution function that has an initially anisotropic temperature $(T_\parallel \neq T_\perp)$ is an important physical process in space and laboratory plasmas. It is also a canonical example…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

Maxwell's equations are considered in metric-free form, with a local but otherwise arbitrary constitutive law. After splitting Maxwell's equations into evolution equations and constraints, we derive the characteristic equation and we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-11 Volker Perlick

We formulate an optimization problem for the dependence of the eigenvalues of Maxwell's equations in a cavity upon variation of the electric permittivity and we prove a corresponding Maximum Principle.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Pier Domenico Lamberti , Paolo Luzzini , Michele Zaccaron

The article deals with electrodynamics in the presence of anisotropic materials having scalar wave impedance. Maxwell's equations written for differential forms over a 3-manifold are analysed. The system is extended to a Dirac type first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Erkki Somersalo

We investigate velocity probability distribution functions (PDF) of sheared hard-sphere suspensions. As observed in our Stokes flow simulations and explained by our single-particle theory, these PDFs can show pronounced deviations from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-24 Jens Harting , Hans J. Herrmann , Eli Ben-Naim

The dynamics of fluid particles on cylindrical manifolds is investigated. The velocity field is obtained by generalizing the isotropic Kraichnan ensemble, and is therefore Gaussian and decorrelated in time. The degree of compressibility is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-08 Antonio Celani , Sylvain Rubenthaler , Dario Vincenzi

The third and fourth degree collisional moments for $d$-dimensional inelastic Maxwell models are exactly evaluated in terms of the velocity moments, with explicit expressions for the associated eigenvalues and cross coefficients as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 V. Garzo , A. Santos

The internal interactions of fluids occur at all scales therefore the resulting force fields have no reason to be smooth and differentiable. The release of the differentiability hypothesis has important mathematical consequences, like scale…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Louis de Montera

The correction to Maxwell-Boltzmann's velocity distribution law is obtained in the framework of the modified special relativity theory. The detection of velocity and velocity rate distributions for thermal molecules or atoms or other…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jian-Miin Liu

We study velocity correlations induced by diffusion and dissipation in a simple dissipative dynamical system. We observe that diffusion, as a result of time reversible microscopic processes, leads to correlations with different spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tong Zhou

An effort has been made to solve the Cauchy problem of the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space by two methods. It is proved that the sum of the three vorticity components is a time-invariant in fluid motion. It has been proved that,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-18 F. Lam

The classical dynamics of a particle that is driven by a rapidly oscillating potential (with frequency $\omega$) is studied. The motion is separated into a slow part and a fast part that oscillates around the slow part. The motion of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saar Rahav , Eli Geva , Shmuel Fishman

A new formulation of electromagnetism based on linear differential commutator brackets is developed. Maxwell equations are derived, using these commutator brackets, from the vector potential $\vec{A}$, the scalar potential $\phi$ and the…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Arbab I. Arbab , Faisal A. Yassein