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Turbulent flows in the solar wind, large scale current sheets, multiple current sheets, and shock waves lead to the formation of environments in which a dense network of current sheets is established and sustains "turbulent reconnection".…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Loukas Vlahos , Theophilos Pisokas , Heinz Isliker , Vassilios Tsiolis , Anastasios Anastasiadis

We propose an approximate second order maximum entropy ($M_2$) model for radiative transfer in slab geometry. The model is based on the ansatz of the specific intensity in the form of a $\Beta$-distribution. This gives us an explicit form…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Graham Alldredge , Ruo Li , Weiming Li

Event-driven molecular dynamics is a valuable tool in condensed and soft matter physics when particles can be modeled as hard objects or more generally if their interaction potential can be modeled in a stepwise fashion. Hard spheres model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cristiano De Michele

We propose a new reduced model for gravity-driven free-surface flows of shallow elastic fluids. It is obtained by an asymptotic expansion of the upper-convected Maxwell model for elastic fluids. The viscosity is assumed small (of order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-13 François Bouchut , Sébastien Boyaval

Generating samples from limited information is a fundamental problem across scientific domains. Classical maximum entropy methods provide principled uncertainty quantification from moment constraints but require sampling via MCMC or…

A general method of solving the drift kinetic equation is developed for an axisymmetric magnetic field. Expanding a distribution function in general moments a set of ordinary differential equations are obtained. Successively expanding the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Jeong-Young Ji , Eric D. Held , J. Andrew Spencer , Yong-Su Na

We show that the maximum entropy hypothesis can successfully explain the distribution of stresses on compact clusters of particles within disordered mechanically stable packings of soft, isotropically stressed, frictionless disks above the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-13 Yegang Wu , S. Teitel

New class of reference distribution functions for numerical approximation of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equations associated to the charged particle dynamics in tokamak are studied. The reference distribution functions are obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-22 György Steinbrecher , Giorgio Sonnino , Nicolae Pometescu

A method is presented which allows the exact construction of conserved (i.e. divergence-free) current vectors from appropriate sets of multipole moments. Physically, such objects may be taken to represent the flux of particles or electric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abraham I. Harte

The montecarlo method, which is quite commonly used to solve maximum entropy problems in statistical physics, can actually be used to solve inverse problems in a much wider context. The probability distribution which maximizes entropy can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

We present a new method for studying equilibrium properties of interacting fluids in an arbitrary external field. The fluid is composed of monodisperse spherical particles with hard-core repulsion and additional interactions of arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-09 Benaoumeur Bakhti , Gerhard Müller

An important class of multi-scale flow scenarios deals with an interplay between kinetic and continuum phenomena. While hybrid solvers provide a natural way to cope with these settings, two issues restrict their performance. Foremost, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-11 Mohsen Sadr , Qian Wang , M. Hossein Gorji

Using the volume averaging technique of Jackson (1997), we derive a set of two-fluid equations that describe the dynamics of a mono-disperse non-Brownian colloidal suspension in the semi-dilute regime. The equations are tensorial and can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-06 Dalton J. E. Harvie

The particle-in-cell approach has proven effective at modeling neutron star and black hole magnetospheres from first principles, but global simulations are plagued with an unrealistically small separation between the scales where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-09 Adrien Soudais , Benoît Cerutti , Ioannis Contopoulos

Reconstructing 4D or 6D phase space distributions from 1D or 2D measurements is a challenging inverse problem encountered in particle accelerators. Entropy maximization is an established method to incorporate prior information in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Austin Hoover

The nature of particle and entropy flow between two superfluids is often understood in terms of reversible flow carried by an entropy-free, macroscopic wavefunction. While this wavefunction is responsible for many intriguing properties of…

This paper presents a general and robust method for the fluid-structure interaction of membranes and shells undergoing large displacement and large added-mass effects by coupling an immersed-boundary method with a shell finite-element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

We model the flow behaviour of dense melts of flexible and semiflexible ring polymers in the presence of walls using a hybrid multiscale approach. Specifically, we perform molecular dynamics simulations and apply the Irving-Kirkwood formula…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Ranajay Datta , Mária Lukáčová-Medviďová , Andreas Schömer , Peter Virnau

We present a new multi-dimensional, robust, and cell-centered finite-volume scheme for the ideal MHD equations. This scheme relies on relaxation and splitting techniques and can be easily used at high order. A fully conservative version is…

Based on the theory of stochastic chemical kinetics, the inherent randomness and stochasticity of biochemical reaction networks can be accurately described by discrete-state continuous-time Markov chains. The analysis of such processes is,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Andreychenko Alexander , Mikeev Linar , Wolf Verena