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The paper derives and analyses the (semi-)discrete dispersion relation of the Parareal parallel-in-time integration method. It investigates Parareal's wave propagation characteristics with the aim to better understand what causes the well…

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We study cumulative scattering effects on wave front propagation in time dependent randomly layered media. It is well known that the wave front has a deterministic characterization in time independent media, aside from a small random shift…

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Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

Lagrangian measurements of tracer particle dispersion in stratified turbulence are presented from a large-scale experiment achieving both high buoyancy Reynolds numbers and low Froude numbers -- a regime characteristic of oceanic…

It is discussed the limitations of the widely used markovian approximation applied to model the turbulent refractive index in lightwave propagation. It is well-known the index is a passive scalar field. Thus, the actual knowledge about…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dario G. Perez , Luciano Zunino , Mario Garavaglia

This paper is concerned with the processes of spatial propagation and penetration of turbulence from the regions where it is locally excited into initially laminar regions. The phenomenon has come to be known as "turbulence spreading" and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-22 Alexander V. Milovanov , Jens Juul Rasmussen

Energy transmission over long distances by waves is a key mechanism for many natural processes. This possibility arises when an inhomogeneous medium is arranged in such a manner that it enables a certain type of wave to propagate with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Semyon Churilov

We study a reduced hydrodynamic formulation of paraxial vector beam propagation in which the beam intensity, optical phase, and spatially-dependent polarization are coupled through a nonlinear dispersive system. While prior analytical work…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Harbir Antil , Rainald Löhner , Sarswati Shah

Nonlocal nonlinear Schroedinger-type equation is derived as a model to describe paraxial light propagation in nonlinear media with different `degrees' of nonlocality. High frequency limit of this equation is studied under specific…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-10-01 Boris Konopelchenko , Antonio Moro

Wave propagation in one-dimensional heterogeneous bistable media is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Starting from the analytically known traveling wave solution for the homogeneous medium, infinitely extended,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-19 Jakob Löber , Markus Bär , Harald Engel

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

The Fokker--Planck Equation can be used in a partially-coherent imaging context to model the evolution of the intensity of a paraxial x-ray wave field with propagation. This forms a natural generalisation of the transport-of-intensity…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 David M. Paganin , Kaye S. Morgan

Spreading processes on top of active dynamics provide a novel theoretical framework for capturing emerging collective behavior in living systems. I consider run-and-tumble dynamics coupled with coagulation/decoagulation reactions that lead…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-29 Matteo Paoluzzi

Wavefield speckle patterns are generated by interference of randomly scattered coherent light. In the weak-coupling regime of the It\^o-Schr\"odinger paraxial model for long-distance wave propagation, we show the following multiscale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

Small amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves are studied as they propagate on the free surface of a predeformed semi-infinite body made of Bell constrained material. The predeformation corresponds to a finite static pure homogeneous strain.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-01 Michel Destrade

An integro-differential equation describing the angular distribution of beams is analyzed for a medium with random inhomogeneities. Beams are trapped because inhomogeneities give rise to wave localization at random locations and random…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering processes, from biofilm formation and contamination processes to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-10 Roberto Alonso-Matilla , Brato Chakrabarti , David Saintillan

We study the propagation of surface waves across structured surfaces with random, localized inhomogeneities. A discrete analogue of Gurtin-Murdoch model is employed and surface elasticity, in contrast to bulk elasticity, is captured by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Josselin Garnier , Basant Lal Sharma

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland