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The formulation of combinatorial differential forms, proposed by Forman for analysis of topological properties of discrete complexes, is extended by defining the operators required for analysis of physical processes dependent on scalar…

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We study the homogenization problem for a system of stochastic differential equation with local time terms that models a multivariate diffusion in presence of semipermeable hyperplane interfaces with oblique penetration. We show that this…

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The paper deals with the homogenization of reaction-diffusion equations with large reaction terms in a multi-scale porous medium. We assume that the fractures and pores are equidistributed and that the coefficients of the equations are…

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Three inverse boundary value problems for the heat equations in one space dimension are considered. Those three problems are: extracting an unknown interface in a heat conductive material, an unknown boundary in a layered material or a…

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This paper presents a multiscale methodology for efficient unsteady conjugate heat transfer simulations. The solid domain is modelled by coupling a global representation of the temperature field, based on the eigenfunctions of the unsteady…

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The heat equation is considered in the complex medium consisting of many small bodies (particles) embedded in a given material. On the surfaces of the small bodies an impedance boundary condition is imposed. An equation for the limiting…

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This work deals with the problem of determining a non-homogeneous heat conductivity profile in a steady-state heat conduction boundary-value problem with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions over a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$,…

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The exact evolution in time and space of a distribution of the temperature (or density of diffusing matter) in an isotropic homogeneous medium is determined where the initial distribution is described by a piecewise polynomial. In two…

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Transformation optics originating from the invariance of Maxwell's equations under the coordinate mapping has enabled the design and demonstration of many fascinating electromagnetic devices that were unconceivable or deemed impossible…

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In this Letter, we show numerically that the rectifying effect of heat flux in a one-dimensional two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova chain demonstrated in recent literature is merely available under the limit of the weak coupling between the two…

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This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…

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We present an innovative contactless method suitable to study in-plane thermal transport based on beam-offset frequency-domain thermoreflectance using a one-dimensional heat source with uniform power distribution. Using a one-dimensional…

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We consider a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem that has in addition a shift term. We show a solution decomposition using asymptotic expansions and a stability result. Based upon this we provide a numerical analysis of high…

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Within the theory of interacting continua, we develop a model for a heat conducting mixture of two interacting fluids described in terms of the densities and the velocities for each fluid and the temperature field for the mixture as a…

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We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

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