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In non-destructive evaluation guided wave inspections, the elastic structure to be inspected is often embedded within other elastic media and the ensuing leaky waves are complex and non-trivial to compute; we consider the canonical example…

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Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

Diffusion of particles in complex fluids and gels is difficult to describe and often lies beyond the scope of the classical Stokes-Einstein relation. One of the main lines of research over the past few decades has sought to relate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Władysław Sokołowski , Huma Jamil , Karol Makuch

This paper presents high order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for wave problems on moving curved meshes with general choices of basis and quadrature. The proposed method adopts an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Kaihang Guo , Jesse Chan

We perform Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations of granular particles (polystyrene spheres) vibrated inside a cubic container. The study investigates the evolution of the packing fraction with and without rotational friction at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Linnea Heitmeier , Jan Gabriel

Wave propagation in time-varying media has attracted significant attention for its innovative potential to control wave-matter interactions and to develop versatile active materials. While most research has focused on electromagnetic waves,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-22 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

Wave propagation problems for heterogeneous media are known to have many applications in physics and engineering. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in stochastic effects due to the uncertainty, which may arise from impurities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ching-Shan Chou , Yukun Li , Dongbin Xiu

We present an approach for adapting the Gaussian dispersion analysis (GDA) of optical materials to time-domain simulations. Within a GDA model, the imaginary part of a measured dielectric function is presented as a sum of Gaussian…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Ludmila Prokopeva , Samuel Peana , Alexander Kildishev

The mean square displacement per collision of a molecule immersed in a gas at equilibrium is given by its mean square displacement between two consecutive collisions (mean square free path) corrected by a prefactor in the form of a series.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-03 Santos Bravo Yuste , Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

The propagation of the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) is investigated in the cylindrical Gardner (cG) equation, which is obtained by employing a similarity reduction to the two space one time (2+1) dimensional Gardner-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 Gunay Aslanova , Semra Ahmetolan , Ali Demirci

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

Motivated by the work of D. Hoff and K. Zumbrun (Indiana Univ. Math. J. 44: 603-676, 1995), we investigate the diffusion wave phenomena in three-dimensional incompressible viscoelastic flows. By employing the representation formula of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Shenghan Li , Yong Wang

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be distorted by intervening mass distributions while propagating, leading to frequency-dependent modulations that imprint a distinct signature on the observed waveforms. Bayesian inference for GW lensing with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Juno C. L. Chan , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Joey Bowman

The mean square displacement (MSD) of intruders (tracer particles) immersed in a multicomponent granular mixture made up of smooth inelastic hard spheres in a homogeneous cooling state is explicitly computed. The multicomponent granular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-12 Rubén Gómez González , Santos Bravo Yuste , Vicente Garzó

Bayesian full waveform inversion (FWI) offers uncertainty-aware subsurface models; however, posterior sampling directly on observed seismic shot records is rarely practical at the field scale because each sample requires numerous…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Mohammad H. Taufik , Tariq Alkhalifah

In dispersive media, hydrodynamic singularities are resolved by coherent wavetrains known as dispersive shock waves (DSWs). Only dynamically expanding, temporal DSWs are possible in one-dimensional media. The additional degree of freedom…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-01 M. A. Hoefer , G. A. El , A. M. Kamchatnov

Divergent wave imaging with coherent compounding allows obtaining broad field of view and higher frame rate with respect to line by line insonification. However, the spatial and contrast resolution crucially depends on the weights applied…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zahraa Alzein , Marco Crocco , Daniele D. Caviglia

In this paper we show that there are circumstances in which the damping of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through a viscous fluid can be highly significant; in particular, this applies to Core Collapse Supernovae (CCSNe). In previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-21 Nigel T. Bishop , Petrus J. van der Walt , Monos Naidoo

We have developed a microfluidic tool to measure the diffusion coefficient $D$ of solutes in an aqueous solution, by following the temporal relaxation of an initially steep concentration gradient in a microchannel. Our chip exploits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-23 Hoang-Thanh Nguyen , Anne Bouchaudy , Jean-Baptiste Salmon

A two-dimensional generalized hydrodynamics (GH) model is developed to study the full spectrum of both longitudinal and transverse dust acoustic waves (DAW) in strongly coupled complex (dusty) plasmas, with memory-function-formalism being…

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