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We calculate certain features of Bose-Einstein condensation in the ideal gas by using recurrence relations for the partition function. The grand canonical ensemble gives inaccurate results for certain properties of the condensate that are…
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Conditions for input-output stability of barrier-based model predictive control of linear systems with linear and convex nonlinear (hard or soft) constraints are established through the construction of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs).…
Understanding noisy information engines is a fundamental problem of non-equilibrium physics, particularly in biomolecular systems agitated by thermal and active fluctuations in the cell. By the generalized second law of thermodynamics, the…
Impedance-based small-signal stability analysis is widely applied in practical engineering with modular multilevel converters (MMCs). However, the deficiencies of existing impedance models (IMs) and the idealized extension for the single…
The generation of indirect combustion noise by compositional inhomogeneities is examined theoretically. For this, the compact nozzle theory of~\cite{MARBLE_CANDEL_JSV1977} is extended to a multi-component gas mixture, and the chemical…
This study aims to construct a theoretical formulation of a nonequilibrium process for a system of Bose--Einstein condensate associated with a spontaneous symmetry breakdown. For this, Thermo Field Dynamics is used. We then describe the…
We present a new divergence-free and well-balanced hybrid FV/FE scheme for the incompressible viscous and resistive MHD equations on unstructured mixed-element meshes in 2 and 3 space dimensions. The equations are split into subsystems. The…
The purpose of this work is to present the concept of an autonomous Stirling-like engine powered by anisotropy of thermodynamic fluctuations. Specifically, simultaneous contact of a thermodynamic system with two heat baths along coupled…