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Rotor-stator flows are known to exhibit instabilities in the form of circular and spiral rolls. While the spirals are known to emanate from a supercritical Hopf bifurcation, the origin of the circular rolls is still unclear. In the present…
A rationale is provided for the emergence of synchronization in a system of coupled oscillators in a stick-slip motion. The single oscillator has a limit cycle in a region of the state space for each parameter set beyond the supercritical…
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Computer simulations of first-order phase transitions using standard toroidal boundary conditions are generally hampered by exponential slowing down. This is partly due to interface formation, and partly due to shape transitions. The latter…
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A minimal (low-dimensional) dynamical model of the sawtooth oscillations is presented. It is assumed that the sawtooth is triggered by a thermal instability which causes the plasma temperature in the central part of the plasma to drop…
The seismic processes are well known to be self-similar in both spatial and temporal behavior. At the same time, the Burridge-Knopoff (BK) model of earthquake fault dynamics, one of the basic models of theoretical seismicity, does not…
We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to model the development of turbulence in a quantum fluid confined by a cuboid box potential, and forced by shaking along one axis. We observe the development of isotropic turbulence from…
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In this paper we investigate the properties of rapidly rotating decaying turbulence using numerical simulations and phenomenological modelling. We find that as the turbulent flow evolves in time, the Rossby number decreases to $\sim…
We consider the problem of a slender rod slipping along a rough surface. Painlev\'e \cite{Painleve1895, Painleve1905a,Painleve1905b} showed that the governing rigid body equations for this problem can exhibit multiple solutions (the {\it…
In this paper, we analyse the basic ideas of Vibrodynamics and the two-timing method. To make our analysis most instructive, we have chosen the Newton's equation with a general oscillating force. We deal with its asymptotic solutions in the…