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Based on machine learning techniques, we propose a novel method to estimate flow fields using only floating sensor locations. This method does not require either ground-truth velocity fields or governing equations for fluid flows, which is…

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This paper presents two new, simple yet effective approaches to measure the vibration of a swaying millimeter-wave radar (mmRadar) utilizing geometrical information. Specifically, for the planar vibrations, we firstly establish an equation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Chengyao Tang , Yongpeng Dai , Zhi Li , Tian Jin

Several filtering methods for the detection of gravitational wave bursts in interferometric detectors are presented. These are simple and fast methods which can act as online triggers. All methods are compared to matched filtering with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Pradier , N. Arnaud , M. -A. Bizouard , F. Cavalier , M. Davier , P. Hello

Wave propagation on the surface of a material contains information about physical properties beneath its surface. We propose a method for inferring the thickness and stiffness of a structure from just a video of waves on its surface. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alexander C. Ogren , Berthy T. Feng , Jihoon Ahn , Katherine L. Bouman , Chiara Daraio

This paper is devoted to the stabilization of the incompressible Euler equation with free surface. We study the damping of two-dimensional gravity waves by an absorbing beach where the water-wave energy is dissipated by using the variations…

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This paper describes a method to convert Microsoft Kinect coordinates into gait parameters in order to detect a person's gait change. The proposed method can help quantify the progress of physical therapy. Microsoft Kinect, a popular…

Computation · Statistics 2019-02-28 Behnam Malmir , Shing I Chang

We study the two dimensional water waves problem with surface tension in the case when there is a non-zero contact angle between the free surface and the bottom. In the presence of surface tension, dissipations take place at the contact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Mei Ming , Chao Wang

We present a new idea that allows us to detect gravitational waves without being disturbed by any kind of displacement noise, based on the fact that gravitational waves and test-mass motions affect the propagations of light differently. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Seiji Kawamura , Yanbei Chen

We construct a class of self-similar surface water waves and study its properties. This class of surface waves appears to be in very good agreement with a common type of wave crests in the ocean.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Sijue Wu

We present a new waveguided-sensing configuration combining the advantages of two effects, namely, two-wave interference and multiple-wave interference in a single sensing device. The sensor is accessed vertically from above by means of a…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 Anat Demeter-Finzi , Shlomo Ruschin

We perform experiments to study the inverse cascade regime of gravity wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid. Surface waves are forced at an intermediate scale corresponding to the gravity-capillary wavelength. In response to this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-27 Luc Deike , Claude Laroche , Eric Falcon

In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal

We investigate the wave effects of gravitational waves (GWs) using numerical simulations with the finite element method (FEM) based on the publicly available code {\it deal.ii}. We robustly test our code using a point source monochromatic…

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This article presents a detailed analysis of an undergraduate physics laboratory experiment designed to determine the density of water using fundamental measurement techniques and data analysis methods. The experimental setup consists of a…

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We propose a new model-independent measurement strategy for the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) based on strongly lensed GWs and their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. This can be done in two ways: by comparing arrival…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Aleksandra Piorkowska-Kurpas , Zong-Hong Zhu

In order to investigate the speed of gravitational signals travelling in air or through a different medium two experiments were designed. One of the experiments contains 2 masses rotating at very high speed and in the other experiment a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-02 Carlos Frajuca , Fabio da Silva Bortoli , Nadja Simão Magalhaes

The direct detection of gravitational waves opens the possibility to test general relativity and its alternatives in the strong field regime. Here we focus on the test of the existence of extra dimensions. The classification of…

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We examine the interaction between floating cylindrical objects and surface waves in the gravity regime. Since the impact of resonance phenomena associated with floating bodies, particularly at laboratory scales, remains underexplored, we…

Two-dimensional periodic surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension on water of finite depth are considered. Within the framework of small-amplitude waves, we find the exact solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse