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This paper presents the analysis and characterization of the surface scattering process for both specular and diffused components. The study is focused on the investigation of various building materials each having a different roughness, at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-17 Angelos A. Goulianos , Alberto L. Freire , Tom Barratt , Evangelos Mellios , Peter Cain , Moray Rumney , Andrew Nix , Mark Beach

Mathematical methods previously used (Phillies, J. Chem. Phys., 122 224905 (2005)) to interpret quasielastic light scattering spectroscopy (QELSS) spectra are here applied to relate diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) spectra to the moments…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 George D. J. Phillies

Self-diffusion coefficients, $D^*$, are routinely estimated from molecular dynamics simulations by fitting a linear model to the observed mean-squared displacements (MSDs) of mobile species. MSDs derived from simulation exhibit statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-05 Andrew R. McCluskey , Samuel W. Coles , Benjamin J. Morgan

The properties of Van der Waals heterostructures are determined by the twist angle and the interface between adjacent layers as well as their polytype and stacking. Here we describe the use of spectroscopic Low Energy Electron Microscopy…

Polar regions are covered by sea ice, which can be seen as a thin solid elastic sheet with heterogeneous mechanical properties. The dynamics of deformation of a floating solid sheet are primarly governed by gravity, water density, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 G. Le Doudic , M. Jafari , J. Barckicke , S. Perrard , A. Eddi

The shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation predicts that sufficiently soft, non-crystalline solids are linearly unstable against forming periodic arrays of microstructural shear bands. A limited nonlinear analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Langer

Cortical thickness measurements from magnetic resonance imaging, an important biomarker in many neurodegenerative and neurological disorders, are derived by many tools from an initial voxel-wise tissue segmentation. White matter (WM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Vinzenz Uhr , Ivan Diaz , Christian Rummel , Richard McKinley

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs), which connect states of different amplitude via a modulated wave train, form generically in nonlinear dispersive media subjected to abrupt changes in state. The primary tool for the analytical study of DSWs is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-23 Christopher Chong , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis

We use multi-speckle diffusive wave spectroscopy (MSDWS) to probe the micron-scale dynamics of a granular pile submitted to discrete gentle taps. The typical time-scale between plastic events is found to increase dramatically with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandre Kabla , Georges Debregeas

The mechanism of diffusing diffusivity predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the mean-squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Mpumelelo Matse , Mykyta V. Chubynsky , John Bechhoefer

Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) allows for the direct measurement of the squared strain-rate tensor. When combined with commonly available high-speed cameras, we show that DWS gives direct access to the spatio-temporal variations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-01 Enzo Francisco , Vincent Bouillaut , Tong Wu , Sébastien Aumaître

A microfluidic device is constructed from PDMS with a single channel having a short section that is a thin flexible membrane, in order to investigate the complex fluid-structure interaction that arises between a flowing fluid and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-03 Debadi Chakraborty , J. Ravi Prakash , Leslie Yeo , James Friend

Magnonics is seen nowadays as a candidate technology for energy-efficient data processing in classical and quantum systems. Pronounced nonlinearity, anisotropy of dispersion relations and phase degree of freedom of spin waves require…

We present a comprehensive theoretical and computational model that explores the behavior of a thin hydrated film bonded to a non-hydrated / impermeable soft substrate in the context of surface and bulk elasticity coupled with surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-07 Jaemin Kim , Keon Ho Kim , Nikolaos Bouklas

We present an analytical derivation of the coupling parameter relating the angle between two interfering beams in a heterodyne interferometer to the differential phase-signals detected by a quadrant photo-diode. This technique, also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 Gerald Hechenblaikner

Plastic deformation in microscale differs from the macroscopic plasticity in two respects: (i) the flow stress of small samples depends on their size (ii) the scatter of plasticity increases significantly. In this work we focus on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-10 Olga Kapetanou , Vasilis Koutsos , Efstathios Theotokoglou , Daniel Weygand , Michael Zaiser

We consider the problem of estimating a spatially varying density function, motivated by problems that arise in large-scale radiological survey and anomaly detection. In this context, the density functions to be estimated are the background…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-17 Wesley Tansey , Alex Athey , Alex Reinhart , James G. Scott

This paper presents a new method to obtain the deformation distribution on the main reflector of an antenna only by measuring the electric intensity on a spherical surface with the focal point as the center of the sphere, regardless of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Qian Ye , Boyang Wang , Qiang Yao , Jinqing Wang , Qinghui Liu , Zhiqiang Shen

Optical instruments for measuring surface-wave characteristics provide a better spatial and temporal resolution than other methods, but they face difficulties while converting the results of indirect measurements into absolute levels of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Boris M. Salin , Mikhail B. Salin

In this work, we introduce a new deep learning approach based on diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) to perform material decomposition from spectral CT measurements. This approach combines sophisticated prior knowledge from unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Xiao Jiang , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman