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Thermal systems are an attractive setting for exploring the connections between the lumped-element approximations of elementary circuit theory and the partial-differential field equations of mathematical physics, a topic that has been…
We investigate the dynamics of mechanical resonators subject to excitations comprising of an oscillating or harmonic part, whose amplitude decays exponentially in time. We call these complex frequency excitations and show that the resulting…
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The elastic scattering $^{16}$O$+^{12}$C angular distributions at $^{16}$O bombarding energies of 100.0, 115.9 and 124.0 MeV and their optical model description including the $\alpha$-particle exchange contribution calculated in the Coupled…
We present a concept of an electromagnetic phase-shift flowmeter that has a significantly reduced sensitivity to the variation of the electrical conductivity of a liquid metal. A simple theoretical model of the flowmeter is considered where…
Previous theoretical studies on superconductivity were focused on the static states and adiabatic processes. Quantum mechanics simulations of time-dependent processes in superconductors were rarely performed previously. Here we use…
We report on a flow sensing approach based on deflection monitoring of micro beams buckled by the compressive thermal stress due to electrothermal Joules heating. The air stream convectively cooling the device affects both the critical…
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We focus on various measures of the fluctuations of the sequence of intervals between beats of the human heart, and how such fluctuations can be used to assess the presence or likelihood of cardiovascular disease. We examine sixteen such…
The AC conductivity response in a broad frequency range of disordered materials is of great interest not only for technological applications, but also from a theoretical point of view. The Jonscher power exponent value, and its temperature…
We report the temperature dependence of the low-temperature specific heat down to 400 mK of the electron-doped Ba(Fe$_{0.92}$Co$_{0.08}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ superconductors. We have measured two samples extracted from the same batch: first…
A recently proposed schematic model for the non--linear rheology of dense colloidal dispersions is compared to flow curves measured in suspensions that consist of thermosensitive particles. The volume fraction of this purely repulsive model…