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Aharonov-Bohm interferometry is the most direct probe of anyonic statistics in the quantum Hall effect. The technique involves oscillations of the electric current as a function of the magnetic field and is not applicable to Kitaev spin…

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(abridged) Uninhibited radiative cooling in clusters of galaxies would lead to excessive mass accretion rates contrary to observations. One of the key proposals to offset radiative energy losses is thermal conduction from outer, hotter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Ruszkowski , S. Peng Oh

The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

We consider a class of multiscale parabolic problems with diffusion coefficients oscillating in space at a possibly small scale $\varepsilon$. Numerical homogenization methods are popular for such problems, because they capture efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou , Gilles Vilmart

We demonstrate that non-diffusive, fluid-like heat transport, such as heat backflowing from cooler to warmer regions, can be induced, controlled, and amplified in extreme thermal conductors such as graphite and hexagonal boron nitride. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Jan Dragašević , Bogdan Rajkov , Michele Simoncelli

In this work, we introduce a framework to design multidimensional Riemann solvers for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws on general unstructured polygonal Voronoi-like tessellations. In this framework we propose two simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Elena Gaburro , Mario Ricchiuto , Michael Dumbser

A discretisation scheme for heterogeneous anisotropic diffusion problems on general meshes is developed and studied. The unknowns of this scheme are the values at the centre of the control volumes and at some internal interfaces which may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Robert Eymard , Thierry Gallouët , Raphaele Herbin

We describe an optical method to directly measure position-dependent thermal diffusivity of reflective single crystal samples across a broad range of temperatures for condensed matter physics research. Two laser beams are used, one as a…

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

The critical task of inferring anomalous cross-field transport coefficients is addressed in simulations of boundary plasmas with fluid models. A workflow for parameter inference in the UEDGE fluid code is developed using Bayesian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Yichen Fu , Ben Dudson , Xiao Chen , Maxim Umansky , Filippo Scotti , Tom Rognlien , Anthony Leonard

Motivated by the search for sharp bounds on turbulent heat transfer as well as the design of optimal heat exchangers, we consider incompressible flows that most efficiently cool an internally heated disc. Heat enters via a distributed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Ian Tobasco

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

We simulate the evolution of cluster galaxies' hot interstellar medium (ISM) gas due to ram pressure and thermal conduction in the intracluster medium (ICM). At the density and temperature of the ICM, the mean free paths of ICM electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Rukmani Vijayaraghavan , Craig Sarazin

We examine the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters with 3D MHD simulations of isolated clusters including radiative cooling and anisotropic thermal conduction along magnetic field lines. The central regions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

We present an extension of the multi-moment advection scheme (Minoshima et al., 2011, J. Comput. Phys.) to the three-dimensional case, for full electromagnetic Vlasov simulations of magnetized plasma. The scheme treats not only point values…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takashi Minoshima , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano

The enclosure method was originally introduced for inverse problems of concerning non-destructive evaluation governed by elliptic equations. It was developed as one of useful approaches in inverse problems and applied for various equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Masaru Ikehata , Mishio Kawashita

We develop new adaptive alternative weighted essentially non-oscillatory (A-WENO) schemes for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The new schemes employ the recently proposed local characteristic decomposition based central-upwind…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Alina Chertock , Shaoshuai Chu , Alexander Kurganov

We design the conforming virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the two dimensional elastodynamics problem. We prove stability and convergence of the semi-discrete approximation and derive optimal error estimates under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-16 P. F. Antonietti , G. Manzini , I. Mazzieri , H. Mourad , M. Verani

We propose certain approach of solving two-dimensional non-stationary and stationary advection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems through their reduction to the set of corresponding one-dimensional problems. This method leverages…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 R. Drebotiy , H. Shynkarenko

In simulation of fluid injection in fractured geothermal reservoirs, the characteristics of the physical processes are severely affected by the local occurence of connected fractures. To resolve these structurally dominated processes, there…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Nissen , Eirik Keilegavlen , Tor Harald Sandve , Inga Berre , Jan Martin Nordbotten