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Shock-driven turbulence is central to astrophysical plasmas in which explosions and compressive driving inject energy through shocks rather than steady stirring. We present three-dimensional, three-temperature (ion, electron, and radiation;…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Stefano Merlini , James R. Beattie , Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

The work presents an integral solution of the time-fractional subdiffusion through a preliminary defined profile with unknown coefficients and the concept of penetration layer well known from the heat diffusion The profile satisfies the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Jordan Hristov

In this paper we present a mathematical study of particle diffusion inside and outside a spherical biological cell that has been exposed on one side to a propagating planar diffusive front. The media inside and outside the spherical cell…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Sandeep Santhosh Kumar , Stanley J. Miklavcic

We examine the stability of self-similar solutions for an accelerating relativistic blast wave which is generated by a point explosion in an external medium with a steep radial density profile of a power-law index > 4.134. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaohu Wang , Abraham Loeb , Eli Waxman

We show that converging spherical and cylindrical shock waves may ignite a detonation wave in a combustible medium, provided the radius at which the shocks become strong exceeds a critical radius, R_c. An approximate analytic expression for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Doron Kushnir , Eli Livne , Eli Waxman

Self-similar shock solutions in spherically symmetric polytropic gas flows are constructed and analyzed in contexts of proto-star formation processes. Among other possible solutions, we model a similarity shock across the sonic critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu-Qing Lou , Yang Gao

Due to the chiral nature of the Dirac equation, overlying of an electrical superlattice (SL) can open new Dirac points on the Fermi-surface of the energy spectrum. These lead to novel low-excitation physical phenomena. A typical example for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juergen Dietel , Hagen Kleinert

We consider in this paper blow-up solutions of the semilinear wave equation in one space dimension, with an exponential source term. Assuming that initial data are in $H^{1}_{loc}\times L^2_{loc}$ or some times in $ W^{1,\infty}\times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Asma Azaiez , Nader Masmoudi , Hatem Zaag

We consider the problem of ignition of propagating waves in one-dimensional bistable or excitable systems by an instantaneous spatially extended stimulus. Earlier we proposed a method (Idris and Biktashev, PRL, vol 101, 2008, 244101) for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-10-28 B. Bezekci , I. Idris , R. D. Simitev , V. N. Biktashev

We use a semiclassical approach to study out of equilibrium dynamics and transport in quantum systems with massive quasiparticle excitations having internal quantum numbers. In the universal limit of low energy quasiparticles, the system is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-20 Márton Kormos , Catalin Pascu Moca , Gergely Zaránd

The topic of this paper is a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space with $3\leq p<5$. We generalize inward/outward energy theory and weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ruipeng Shen

In this paper, we investigate the global behaviors of solutions to defocusing semilinear wave equations in $\mathbb{R}^{1+d}$ with $d\geq 3$. We prove that in the energy space the solution verifies the integrated local energy decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Shiwu Yang

Diffusive acceleration at collisionless shock waves remains one of the most promising acceleration mechanisms for the description of the origin of cosmic rays at all energies. A crucial ingredient to be taken into account is the reaction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

In this paper we consider a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space with $p \in [3,5)$. We prove that if initial data $(u_0, u_1)$ are radial so that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Ruipeng Shen

The problem of the mechanical evolution of a shock between a cylindrically symmetric bat and a spherical ball is solved in the strict rigid approximation for arbitrary values of the initial conditions. The friction during the impact is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Alejandro Cabo , Leon Soler , Carlos Gonzalez

This paper extends the semianalytical treatment of fast ion current density to take into account time dependence and velocity diffusion using solutions of Boltzmann equation with a complete Coulomb collision term (Goncharov et al. 2010…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 P. R. Goncharov , B. V. Kuteev , V. Yu. Sergeev , T. Ozaki , S. Sudo

The inclusion of semiconducting material within a composite barrier enables the perfectly uniform propagation of surface ionization waves (SIW) in air at atmospheric pressure regardless of the polarity of the applied electric field, unlike…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Thomas Orrière , David Z. Pai

Here we present a comprehensive derivation of the analytical expression for the spatiotemporal acoustic pressure generated by photoacoustic sources with spherically symmetric initial pressure distributions. Starting from the fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-02 Shuang Li , Yibing Wang , Yu Zhang , Changhui Li

We study the quantum evolution in dimension three of a system composed by a test particle interacting with an environment made of $N$ harmonic oscillators. At time zero the test particle is described by a spherical wave, i.e. a highly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Carla Recchia , Alessandro Teta

We study a defocusing semilinear wave equation, with a power nonlinearity $|u|^{p-1}u$, defined outside the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\ge3$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that if $p>n+4$ and the initial data are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Piero D'Ancona