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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of stability and long-time behaviour of a coupled system constituted by two rigid bodies separated by a thin layer of lubricant. We show that permanent rotations of the whole system, with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Evan Arsenault , Giusy Mazzone

The existence of instabilities, for example in the form of adversarial examples, has given rise to a highly active area of research concerning itself with understanding and enhancing the stability of neural networks. We focus on a popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Davide Murari , Ferdia Sherry

A circular pursuit guidance problem involving pursuer-target engagement is studied in this paper using a bifurcation theory based numerical approach. While target is modeled as a point mass moving around in a circle with certain velocity,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Kavita Shekhawat , Nandan K Sinha

In this paper, we conduct a numerical analysis of the strong stabilization and polynomial decay of solutions for the initial boundary value problem associated with a system that models the dynamics of a mixture of two rigid solids with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Kais Ammari , Vilmos Komornik , Mauricio Sepúlveda , Octavio Vera

Oscillatory zoning, i.e. self-formation of spatial quasi-periodic oscillations in the composition of solid growing from aqueous solution, is analyzed theoretically. Keeping in mind systems like (Ba,Sr)SO4 we propose a 1D model that takes…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Ihor Lubashevsky , Tanja Mues , Andreas Heuer

The sunflower equation describes the motion of the tip of a plant due to the auxin transportation under the influence of gravity. This work proposes the fractional-order generalization to this delay differential equation. The equation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Deepa Gupta , Sachin Bhalekar

This note discusses dynamical systems-systems that evolve through time. We start with two contemporary examples illustrating the qualitative and the quantitative behavior of dynamical systems. These are two broad categories, usually called…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthew Foreman

In this manuscript, we investigate a fractional stochastic neutral differential equation with time delay, which includes both deterministic and stochastic components. Our primary objective is to rigorously prove the existence of a unique…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Javad A. Asadzade , Nazim I. Mahmudov

Groups of animals often tend to arrange themselves in flocks that have characteristic spatial attributes and temporal dynamics. Using a dynamic continuum model for a flock of individuals, we find equilibria of finite spatial extent where…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-01-16 Nicholas A. Mecholsky , Edward Ott , Thomas M. Antonsen , Parvez Guzdar

A two-dimensional system of differential equations with delay modelling the glucose-insulin interaction processes in the human body is considered. Sufficient conditions are derived for the unique positive equilibrium in the system to be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-11 M. Angelova , G. Beliakov , A. Ivanov , S. Shelyag

Various combinatorial optimization NP-hard problems can be reduced to finding the minimizer of an Ising model, which is a discrete mathematical model. It is an intellectual challenge to develop some mathematical tools or algorithms for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Bowen Liu , Kaizhi Wang , Dongmei Xiao , Zhan Yu

Over the past decade the study of fluidic droplets bouncing and skipping (or ``walking'') on a vibrating fluid bath has gone from an interesting experiment to a vibrant research field. The field exhibits challenging fluids problems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 Aminur Rahman , Denis Blackmore

Granular materials such as sand, powders, and food grains are ubiquitous in civil engineering, geoscience, agriculture, and medicine. While the influence of friction between the grains on the static structure of these systems is well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-16 Qinghao Mao , Yujie Wang , Walter Kob

The paper develops the stiffness relationship between the movements and forces among a system of discrete interacting grains. The approach is similar to that used in structural analysis, but the stiffness matrix of granular material is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 Matthew R. Kuhn , Florent Prunier , Ali Daouadji

Control-based continuation is technique for tracking the solutions and bifurcations of nonlinear experiments. The basic idea is to apply the method of numerical continuation to a feedback-controlled physical experiment. Since in an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-25 David A. W. Barton

Conceptual climate models provide an approach to understanding climate processes through a mathematical analysis of an approximation to reality. Recently, these models have also provided interesting examples of nonsmooth dynamical systems.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-22 James Walsh , Esther Widiasih , Jonathan Hahn , Richard McGehee

We consider the dynamics of thin two-dimensional viscous droplets on chemically heterogeneous surfaces moving under the combined effects of slip, mass transfer and capillarity. The resulting long-wave evolution equation for the droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-20 Danny Groves , Nikos Savva

This work explores the dynamic properties of test particles surrounding a distorted, deformed compact object. The astrophysical motivation was to choose such background, which could constitute a more reasonable model of a real situation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Shokoufe Faraji , Audrey Trova

Determining a stability domain, i.e. a set of equilibria for which a dynamical system remains stable, is a core problem in control. When dealing with controlled systems, the problem is generally transformed into a robustness analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Quentin Peyron , Isabelle Charpentier , Edouard Laroche

A general sufficient condition for the convergence of subsequences of solutions of non-autonomous, nonlinear difference equations and systems is obtained. For higher order equations the delay sizes and patterns play essential roles in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-25 H. Sedaghat