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A hydroelastic problem of flexural--gravity waves scattering by a demarcation between two floating elastic plates is investigated within the frame of linear potential-flow theory, where the method of matched eigenfunction expansions is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-20 Q. R. Meng , D. Q. Lu

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged soft particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins and porous particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan J. de Pablo

We are concerned with the suitability of the main models of compressible fluid dynamics for the Lighthill problem for shock diffraction by a convex corned wedge, by studying the regularity of solutions of the problem, which can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Gui-Qiang Chen , Mikhail Feldman , Jingchen Hu , Wei Xiang

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

Resetting a stochastic process is an important problem describing the evolution of physical, biological and other systems which are continually returned to their certain fixed point. We consider the motion of a subdiffusive particle with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-18 Aleksander A. Stanislavsky

We investigate the transport of a solute past isolated sinks in a bounded domain when advection is dominant over diffusion, evaluating the effectiveness of homogenization approximations when sinks are distributed uniformly randomly in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-28 George F. Price , Igor L. Chernyavsky , Oliver E. Jensen

We address the dynamics of adsorbed molecules (a fundamental issue in surface physics) within the framework of a Master Equation scheme, and study the diffusion of particles in a finite cubic lattice whose boundaries are at the $z=1$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jorge A. Revelli , Carlos. E. Budde , Domingo Prato , Horacio S. Wio

We design a deterministic particle method for the solution of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with uncertainty. The deterministic particle approximation is based on the reformulation of the Landau equation as a formal gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Rafael Bailo , José Antonio Carrillo , Andrea Medaglia , Mattia Zanella

Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Mathieu's equation are found in the short wavelength limit using a uniform approximation (method of comparison with a `known' equation having the same classical turning point structure) applied in Fourier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Duncan H. J. O'Dell

A review of solutions of solid-state diffusion problems in infinite and semi-infinite bodies is presented. Based on the identified solutions for the semi-infinite body a two-step diffusion problem is discussed in detail with the first step…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-09 Guglielmo Macrelli

We consider incorporation of particle detachment in Smoluchowski model of colloidal growth. Two approaches are considered, utilizing phenomenological rate equation and exact large-time results. Our main conclusion is that the value of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-22 Dima Mozyrsky , Vladimir Privman

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

We consider a model case for a strictly convex domain of dimension $d\geq 2$ with smooth boundary and we describe dispersion for the wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. More specifically, we obtain the optimal fixed time decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Oana Ivanovici , Gilles Lebeau , Fabrice Planchon

Most classical work on the hydrodynamics of low-Reynolds-number swimming addresses deterministic locomotion in quiescent environments. Thermal fluctuations in fluids are known to lead to a Brownian loss of the swimming direction. As most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-18 Mario Sandoval , Navaneeth K. M. , Ganesh Subramanian , Eric Lauga

An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The…

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In periodic, two-dimensional potentials a classical particle might be expected to escape from any finite region if it has enough energy to escape from a single cell. However, for a class of sinusoidal potentials in which the barriers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roger Haydock

A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 V. A. Gradusov , S. L. Yakovlev

The shallow water equations describing the motion of thin liquid film on the rotating cylinder surface are obtained. These equations are the analog of the modified Boussinesq equations for shallow water and the Korteweg-de Vries equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-12 M. Yu. Zhukov , A. M. Morad

This paper considers particle propagation in a cylindrical molecular communication channel, e.g. a simplified model of a blood vessel. Emitted particles are influenced by diffusion, flow, and a vertical force induced e.g. by gravity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober