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We prove the existence of a liquid-gas phase transition for continuous Gibbs point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Quermass interaction. The Hamiltonian we consider is a linear combination of the volume $\mathcal{V}$, the surface measure…
Recent developments of the AC-calorimetric technique adapted for the needs of high pressure experiments are discussed. A semi-quantitative measurement of the specific heat with a Bridgman-type of pressure cell as well as a diamond anvil…
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The interaction of flexible polymers with fluid flows leads to a number of intriguing phenomena observed in laboratory experiments, namely drag reduction, elastic turbulence and heat transport modification in natural convection, and is one…
This paper is devoted to describe the finite-dimensionality of a two-dimensional micropolar fluid flow with periodic boundary conditions. We define the notions of determining modes and nodes and estimate the number of them, we also estimate…
Modeling transition-continuum hypersonic flows poses significant challenges due to thermodynamic nonequilibrium and the associated breakdown of the continuum assumption. Standard continuum models such as the Navier-Stokes equations are…
Two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations combine the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields, which involve divergence constraints for the magnetic and electric fields. When developing…
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An approximate equation for the effective conductivity sigma_eff of systems with a finite maximal scale of inhomogeneities is deduced. An exact solution of this equation is found and its physical meaning is discussed. A two-phase randomly…
We devise a simplified parameter estimator for a second order stochastic differential equation by a first order system based on the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation. We establish the consistency of the estimator by using…
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Motivated by recent success in the dynamical systems approach to transitional flow, we study the efficiency and effectiveness of extracting simple invariant sets (recurrent flows) directly from chaotic/turbulent flows and the potential of…
We show that the one-dimensional (1D) two-fluid model (TFM) for stratified flow in channels and pipes (in its incompressible, isothermal form) satisfies an energy conservation equation, which arises naturally from the mass and momentum…
We provide a new proof for the global well-posedness of systems coupling fluids and polymers in two space dimensions. Compared to the well-known existing method based on the losing a priori estimates, our method is more direct and much…
We investigate the entropy $H(\mu,t)$ of a probability measure $\mu$ along the heat flow and more precisely we seek for closed algebraic representations of its derivatives. Provided that $\mu$ admits moments of any order, it is indeed…
In this article we discuss flows in shallow, stratified horizontal layers of two immiscible fluids. The top layer is an electrolyte which is electromagnetically driven and the bottom layer is a dielectric fluid. Using a…
This is the second part of a two parts work on the analysis of heat-type equations on manifolds with fibered boundary equipped with a $\Phi$-metric. This setting generalizes the asymptotically conical (scattering) spaces and includes…
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In this paper, we develop a numerical scheme to handle interfaces across computational domains in multi-block schemes for the approximation of systems of conservation laws. We are interested in transmitting shock discontinuities without…
Polymer Physics: Phenomenology of Polymeric Fluid Simulations is a review volume that I am writing. I anticipate it will take a while to complete, so I am supplying individual chapters when each is more-or-less completed. This Chapter…