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We calculate the temporal evolution of distributions of relativistic electrons subject to synchrotron and adiabatic processes and Fermi-like acceleration in shocks. The shocks result from Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet. Shock…

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We analyze the Eckhaus instability of plane waves in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) and describe the nonlinear effects arising in the Eckhaus unstable regime. Modulated amplitude waves (MAWs) are quasi-periodic…

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For a solution to a (possibly nonlinear) Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) the powerful superposition principle renders a probability measure on path space with one dimensional time marginals equal to this solution, and additionally solving the…

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The goal of this paper is to develop and analyze some fully discrete finite element methods for a displacement-pressure model modeling swelling dynamics of polymer gels under mechanical constraints. In the model, the swelling dynamics is…

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The present work considers diffusive shock acceleration at non-relativistic shocks using a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) equivalent to the Fokker-Planck equation. We compute approximate solutions of the transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Marcowith , J. G. Kirk

In an interesting recent analysis, Haragus-Johnson-Perkins-de Rijk have shown modulational stability under localized perturbations of steady periodic solutions of the Lugiato-Lefever equation (LLE), in the process pointing out a difficulty…

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The presence of two-dimensional coherent structures in the near-field of the round jet has been established by several experimental investigations and direct Navier-Stokes simulations (DNS). Their study has a great importance to improve the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Philippe Reynier , Hieu Ha Minh

High Mach number shocks are ubiquitous in interstellar turbulence. The Pencil Code is particularly well suited to the study of magnetohydrodynamics in weakly compressible turbulence and the numerical investigation of dynamos because of its…

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Modified scattering phenomena are encountered in the study of global properties for nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations in situations where the decay of solutions at infinity is borderline and scattering fails just barely.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

A stochastic PDE, describing mesoscopic fluctuations in systems of weakly interacting inertial particles of finite volume, is proposed and analysed in any finite dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}$. It is a regularised and inertial version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Federico Cornalba , Tony Shardlow , Johannes Zimmer

We consider systems of diffusion processes ("particles") interacting through their ranks (also referred to as "rank-based models" in the mathematical finance literature). We show that, as the number of particles becomes large, the process…

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We present a 3D finite element solver for the nonlinear Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations for electrodiffusion, coupled to the Stokes system of fluid dynamics. The model serves as a building block for the simulation of macromolecule…

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Free-space optical (FSO) transmission enables fast, secure, and efficient next-generation communications with abundant spectrum resources. However, atmospheric turbulence, pointing errors, path loss, and atmospheric loss induce random…

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We propose a novel efficient and robust Wavelet-based Edge Multiscale Finite Element Method (WEMsFEM) motivated by \cite{MR3980476,GL18} to solve the singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equations. The main idea is to first establish a…

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We present a novel second-order semi-implicit hybrid finite volume / finite element (FV/FE) scheme for the numerical solution of the incompressible and weakly compressible Navier-Stokes equations on moving unstructured meshes using an…

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We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable travelling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes

We study the effectiveness of the time-localised principal resolvent forcing mode at actuating the near wall cycle of turbulence. The mode is restricted to a wavelet pulse and computed from an SVD of the windowed wavelet-based resolvent…

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This work employs for the first time invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to study the interaction between finite-size particles and near-wall coherent structures. We consider horizontal plane Couette flow and focus on…

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We present synthetic OH Zeeman splitting measurements of a super-Alfvenic model of molecular clouds. We select dense cores from synthetic 13CO maps computed from the largest simulation to date of supersonic and super-Alfvenic turbulence.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Tuomas Lunttila , Paolo Padoan , Mika Juvela , Åke Nordlund

This work focuses on the study of partial differential equation (PDE) based basis function for Discontinuous Galerkin methods to solve numerically wave-related boundary value problems with variable coefficients. To tackle problems with…

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