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The P-wave slowness and group-velocity surfaces in elliptically anisotropic media are ellipsoids. Elliptical anisotropy is convenient to use as the reference medium in perturbation methods designed to solve P-wave wave-propagation problems…

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Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian SPH technique, or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a Cartesian mesh with adaptive mesh refinement. Both of these methods have disadvantages that negatively…

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This paper deals with front propagation dynamics of monostable equations with nonlocal dispersal in spatially periodic habitats. In the authors' earlier works, it is shown that a general spatially periodic monostable equation with nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

By using the recent mathematical tools developed in quaternionic differential operator theory, we solve the Schroedinger equation in presence of a quaternionic step potential. The analytic solution for the stationary states allows to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Stefano De Leo , Gisele C. Ducati , Tiago M. Madureira

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

Brownian Dynamics simulations are an important tool for modeling the dynamics of soft matter. However, accurate and rapid computations of the hydrodynamic interactions between suspended, microscopic components in a soft material is a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Andrew M. Fiore , James W. Swan

We present ECOM (Equilibrium solver via COnformal Mapping), a fast and accurate fixed boundary solver for toroidally axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with or without a toroidal flow. ECOM combines conformal mapping and Fourier…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jungpyo Lee , Antoine Cerfon

The equations of motion of a secularly precessing ellipse are developed using time as the independent variable. The equations are useful when integrating numerically the perturbations about a reference trajectory which is subject to secular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Casotto , Massimo Bardella

In the past, we have presented a systematic computational framework for analyzing self-similar and traveling wave dynamics in nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) by dynamically factoring out continuous symmetries such as…

We develop a linearly-scaling variant of the Force Coupling Method [K. Yeo and M. R. Maxey, J. Fluid Mech. 649, 205-231 (2010)] for computing hydrodynamic interactions among particles confined to a doubly-periodic geometry with either a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Aref Hashemi , Raul P. Pelaez , Sachin Natesh , Brennan Sprinkle , Ondrej Maxian , Zecheng Gan , Aleksandar Donev

We consider a multi-group microscopic model for pedestrian flow describing the behaviour of large groups. It is based on an interacting particle system coupled to an eikonal equation. Hydrodynamic multi-group models are derived from the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-18 Naveen K. Mahato , Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

The multiscale complexity of modern problems in computational science and engineering can prohibit the use of traditional numerical methods in multi-dimensional simulations. Therefore, novel algorithms are required in these situations to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

The present numerical study aims at shedding light on the mechanism underlying the precessional instability in a sphere. Precessional instabilities in the form of parametric resonance due to topographic coupling have been reported in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-24 Yufeng Lin , Philippe Marti , Jerome Noir

The differential rotation of the F5V-IV star Procyon A is computed for a class of models which are consistent with recent astrometric and asteroseismic data. The rotation pattern is determined by solving the Reynolds equation for motion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bonanno , M. Kueker , L. Paterno'

We determine the nonlinear stability of shock-fronted travelling waves arising in a reaction-nonlinear diffusion PDE, subject to a fourth-order spatial derivative term multiplied by a small parameter $\varepsilon$ that models {\it nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

Pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) methods are widely used in many branches of acoustics for the numerical solution of the wave equation, including biomedical ultrasound and seismology. The use of the Fourier collocation spectral method in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 E. S. Wise , J. Jaros , B. T. Cox , B. E. Treeby

We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We analyze a non-standard isoperimetric problem in the plane associated with a metric having degenerate conformal factor at two points. Under certain assumptions on the conformal factor, we establish the existence of curves of least length…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Stan Alama , Lia Bronsard , Andres Contreras , Jiri Dadok , Peter Sternberg

An analytical solution to the nonlinear differential equation describing the equation of motion of a particle moving in an unforced physical system with linear damping, governed by a cubic potential well, is presented in terms of the Jacobi…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Kim Johannessen

$t^*$ represents the total path attenuation and characterizes the amplitude decay of a propagating seismic wave. Calculating the attenuation operator $t^*$ is typically required in seismic attenuation tomography. Traditional methods for…

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