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The chaotic dynamics and its control under power law noise in Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) resonators with electrostatic excitation are probed. On the basis of the stochastic Melnikov method in the mean-square sense and the mean…
The intensity of an electromagnetic wave interacting self-consistently with a beam of charged particles, as in a Free Electron Laser, displays large oscillations due to an aggregate of particles, called the macro-particle. In this article,…
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The theory of disordered elastic systems is one of the most powerful frameworks to assess the physics of multiple systems that span from ferromagnets to migrating biological cells. In this formalism, one assumes that the system can be…
Non-linearities play an important role in micro- and nano- electromechanical system (MEMS and NEMS) design. In common electrostatic and magnetic actuators, the forces and voltages can depend in a non-linear way on position, charge, current…
A permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of a particle or system is a separation of charge along its angular-momentum axis and is a direct signal of T-violation and, assuming CPT symmetry, CP violation. For over sixty years EDMs have been…
We investigate the influence of quenched disorder on the steady states of driven systems of the elastic interface with non-local hydrodynamic interactions. The generalized elastic model (GEM), which has been used to characterize numerous…
This work focuses on the thermodynamics of pseudo-elastic models which represent the Mullins effect. Two established models are analyzed theoretically, their thermomechanical properties are derived, and certain critical points are…
We propose an energy-based framework to analyze the statics and dynamics of a ferroelectric negative capacitance-hybrid Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) actuator. A mapping function that relates the charge on the ferroelectric to…
In this work we modify the wave-corpuscle mechanics for elementary charges introduced by us recently. This modification is designed to better describe electromagnetic (EM) phenomena at atomic scales. It includes a modification of the…
In the present study we are interested in the Davey-Stewartson equations (DSE) that model packets of surface and capillary-gravity waves. We focus on the elliptic-elliptic case, for which it is known that DSE may develop a finite-time…
Spatially confined rigid membranes reorganize their morphology in response to the imposed constraints. A crumpled elastic sheet presents a complex pattern of random folds focusing the deformation energy while compressing a membrane resting…
We develop a discrete-event modeling framework that captures the progression of geophysical systems toward catastrophic failure through sequences of distinct damage events. By representing system evolution as a succession of temporally…
The lack of deviations from the Standard Model at the current level of experimental precision can be explained systematically in suitable models of dynamical electro-weak symmetry breaking. The key ingredient is dynamics which produces a…
We study a nonlinear wave equation appearing as a model for a membrane (without viscous effects) under the presence of an electrostatic potential with strength $\lambda$. The membrane has a unique stable branch of steady states…
In a previous publication we demonstrated that the stable and unstable equilibrium states of prismatic Coulomb actuated Euler-Bernoulli micro-beams, clamped at both ends, can successfully be simulated combining finite element analysis (FEM)…
Algebraically stabilized finite element discretizations of scalar steady-state convection-diffusion-reaction equations often provide accurate approximate solutions satisfying the discrete maximum principle (DMP). However, it was observed…