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The temporal evolution of the levels in a three-level laser is macroscopically described by a closed set of rate equations. Here, we complement this picture by providing a model which describes through chemical reactions how the levels are…

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We propose a weak solution theory for the sharp interface limit of the Cahn-Hilliard reaction model, a variational PDE for lithium-ion batteries. An essential feature of this model is the use of Butler-Volmer kinetics for lithium-ion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Tim Laux , Kerrek Stinson

Accounting for viscous damping within Fokker-Planck equations led to various improvements in the understanding and analysis of nuclear fission of heavy nuclei. Analytical expressions for the fission time are typically provided by Kramers'…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Chris Eccles , Sanil Roy , Thomas H. Gray , Alessio Zaccone

We assess the dielectrically consistent reference interaction site model (DRISM) as an implicit electrolyte framework for modeling the electrochemical double layer, and compare it with the Poisson-Boltzmann model and explicit molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Alessandro Mangiameli , Christopher J. Stein

Radiation creep and swelling are irreversible deformation phenomena occurring in materials irradiated even at low temperatures. On the microscopic scale, energetic particles initiate collision cascades, generating and eliminating defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Luca Reali , Max Boleininger , Daniel R. Mason , Sergei L. Dudarev

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

We propose a thermodynamically consistent general-purpose model describing diffusion of a solute or a fluid in a solid undergoing possible phase transformations and damage, beside possible visco-inelastic processes. Also heat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Tomas Roubicek , Giuseppe Tomassetti

We investigate the electrochemical processes within an electrolyser cell, which are modelled by a coupled system of second-order quasi-linear elliptic PDEs. In this context, we study an inverse problem aiming to reconstruct both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Giovanni S. Alberti , Wadim Gerner , Matteo Santacesaria

As an extension to strain-gradient models of size-dependent plastic behaviour, this work proposes a model for a stress-gradient theory. The model is distinguished from earlier works on the topic by its being embedded in a thermodynamically…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 B. D. Reddy , P. Steinmann , A. Kergassner

We consider the Boltzmann equations with cutoff collision kernels in bounded domains. For the initial data with finite physical bounds, we prove the existence of global-in-time renormalized solutions in the sense of DiPerna-Lions endowed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Ning Jiang , Xu Zhang

In this paper, we study the spatially homogeneous inelastic Boltzmann equation for the angular cutoff pseudo-Maxwell molecules with an additional term of linear deformation. We establish the existence of non-Maxwellian self-similar profiles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-03 José A. Carrillo , Kam Fai Chan , Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li

We study the 6-vertex model with fixed boundary conditions. In the thermodynamical limit there is a formation of the limit shape. We collect most of the known results about the analytical properties of the free energy of the model as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 K. Palamarchuk , N. Reshetikhin

A minimal model for magnetic reconnection and, generally, low-frequency dynamics in low-beta plasmas is proposed. The model combines analytical and computational simplicity with physical realizability: it is a rigorous limit of gyrokinetics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Alessandro Zocco , Alexander Schekochihin

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged soft particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins and porous particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan J. de Pablo

We present a procedure in which known solutions to reflection equations for interaction-round-a-face lattice models are used to construct new solutions. The procedure is particularly well-suited to models which have a known fusion hierarchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Roger E. Behrend , Paul A. Pearce

Under a natural stability condition on the pressure, it is known that for small irrotational initial data, the solutions of the Euler-Korteweg system are global in time. When the initial velocity has a small rotational part, we obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Corentin Audiard

We develop a perturbation theory of quantum (and classical) master equations with slowly varying parameters, applicable to systems which are externally controlled on a time scale much longer than their characteristic relaxation time. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

A multiscale (micro-to-macro) analysis is proposed for the prediction of the finite strain behavior of composites with hyperelastic constituents and embedded localized damage. The composites are assumed to possess periodic microstructure…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-20 Nathan Perchikov , Jacob Aboudi

Thermodynamical properties of an interacting system of scalar bosons at finite temperatures are studied within the framework of a field-theoretical model containing the attractive and repulsive self-interaction terms. Self-consistency…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-28 I. N. Mishustin , D. V. Anchishkin , L. M. Satarov , O. S. Stashko , H. Stoecker

We study a free boundary problem which is motivated by a particular case of the flow of a non-Newtonian fluid, with a pressure depending yield stress given by a Drucker-Prager plasticity criterion. We focus on the steady case and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Eleftherios Ntovoris , M Regis